Any educational environment involves the interaction of diverse groups and individuals. To foster productive and effective communication, it becomes imperative to understand people's different linguistic and cultural backgrounds, as well as their value systems. Promoting Intercultural Communication Competencies in Higher Education is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly material on the presence of cultural diversity in educational contexts and how to promote effective dialogues in these environments. Highlighting extensive coverage on topics relating to intercultural learning, such as social identity, gender diversity, and formative feedback, this book is ideally designed for academics, upper-level students, educators, professionals, and practitioners seeking pedagogical research on communication between diverse cultural groups. Topics Covered: Autoethnography Educational Administration Formative Feedback Gender Diversity Language Learning Classrooms Online Learning Professional Skills Development Social Identity

Lengua ritual y sincretismo examina la aplicabilidad del concepto de sincretismo del etnlogo cubano Fernando Ortiz (1881-1969) en la lengua ritual del culto Palo Monte, un sistema cubano de creencias mgico-religiosas de origen africano subsaharano. Sobre la base de la estrategia investigativa de la delimitacin de casos de habla y del anlisis del discurso intertextual propuesto por M. M. Bakhtin (1895-1975), la autora explica unidades discursivas emitidas por paleros (practicantes del Palo Monte) en procesos y/o prcticas lingsticas de accin ritual. As, el lector comprender cmo los paleros manipulan su cdigo ritual secreto (compuesto de espaol cubano, bozal y kikongo) para hacerlo converger en un nico vernculo hbrido percibido como lengua africana: la lengua ritual congo. Este libro ser de especial inters tanto para investigadores y estudiosos del tema como para aqullos interesados en conocer la cultura y la lengua Palo Monte.