What we need and don’t need intercultural rhetoric for: A retrospective and prospective look at an evolving research area

This article surveys the evolution of what is now known as intercultural rhetoric (IR) and considers how developments in IR research may be seen as both productive and problematic in varying ways for goals that may not always happily co-exist, namely theory construction (or deconstruction) and language/literacy classroom practice. The affordances, challenges, and possible constraints of continuing to empirically and conceptually develop an area...