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This study sheds light on the problem of communicative inequality, neglected both by linguists and communication scholars, among speakers of different languages. It provides a four-step Critical Theory analysis of language-based inequality and distortion between speakers of a few dominant languages, especially English, and speakers of minority languages in the context of international and intercultural communication. Based on a theoretical framework of "Distorted Communication" developed by J. Habermas and C. Muller, the analysis focuses on a critical description, definition, and interpretation of "Distorted Intercultural Communication", and exposes the ideology that legitimates linguistic inequality and distortion in communication.

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1. List of Tables
2. List of Figures
3. Introduction
4. 1. Critical Theory Approach to Language Inequalities
5. 1.1 Critical theory and scientific inquiries
6. 1.2 A critique of the positivist approach
7. 1.3 Critical theory
8. 1.4 A critical theory approach to language inequalities
9. 2 Language Inequality in Distorted Intercultural Communication
10. 2.1 Distorted communication
11. 2.2 Distorted intercultural communication
12. 2.3 Summary
13. 3. The Ideology of Civilization and Western Domination
14. 3.1 The critique of ideology
15. 3.2 The genesis of the ideology of "civilization"
16. 3.3 Expansion of the Western "civilization"
17. 3.4 Structural domination of the Western "civilization"
18. 3.5 Summary
19. 4. Conclusion
20. References

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