Cultural relativism and the discourse of intercultural communication: Aporias of praxis in the intercultural public sphere

Language and Intercultural Communication

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 267-278

  O’regan, John P ^a   MacDonald, Malcolm N ^b  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Presence; Relativism; Responsibility; Totality; Transformation; Truth

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249143893     PISSN: 14708477     EISSN: 1747759X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/laic287.0     Document Type: Article

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