Looking for academic books. Does anyone know of professors that has books, papers or anything related to these topics:
Which programmes of study would fit this the closest? Or if you’ve taken courses on this topic below:
Books and other resources about how different people in different areas phrase and speak and interact differently, and how their language and communication patterns are vastly different
This could include how people greet each other different, and the different ways they phrase their common greetings
This could include how people farewell each other different, and the different ways they phrase their common byes
This could include other phrasings that are more common to different areas and how they are different from other people in different areas of different things like buying at restaurants or common language usage when interacting with friends and whatnot
This could also include nonverbal communication since that would obviously be very important when it comes to understanding language meaning and related
What type of professors and scholars usually knows most about that kind of topic
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Communications professor and Linguistics professor would be your best shot. You can also try the keywords “Intercultural Communication”, “Ethnolinguistics”/“Cultural Linguistics”.
Maybe Deborah Tannen’s, “That’s Not What I Meant: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships.”
http://www.deborahtannen.com/thats-not-what-i-meant
Tannen teaches Linguistics at Georgetown.