Pub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2161602
E. Vasilyeva, M. Bultseva, N. Lebedeva
ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of communication context on face concerns in business interactions. In previous research face concerns were studied across cultures, but here for the first time compared within intra-and intercultural business communication settings. The study aims at investigating whether the priority of face concerns is the same or different in intracultural and intercultural face-threatening business communication. We hypothesized that managers would apply different face concerns in response to face threatening acts in interactions with either their compatriots or people from foreign cultures. We surveyed 380 Russian business professionals working in international companies. To measure face concerns we adapted the questionnaire by S. Ting-Toomey and J. Oetzel to the Russian sample. We compared two contexts using t-test and rmANOVA. Results showed a significant difference between face concerns in managers behaviour in intercultural and intracultural communication. Managers tend to employ either self-face or mutual-face rather than other-face concern in intracultural communication. On the contrary, they prefer mutual-face rather than self-face or other-face concerns in intercultural communication. These results provide empirical evidence that Russian managers create public image in business interactions considering cultural differences and modify their behaviour to fit the context.
{"title":"Face Concerns in Intra- and Intercultural Business Communication","authors":"E. Vasilyeva, M. Bultseva, N. Lebedeva","doi":"10.1080/17475759.2022.2161602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2022.2161602","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of communication context on face concerns in business interactions. In previous research face concerns were studied across cultures, but here for the first time compared within intra-and intercultural business communication settings. The study aims at investigating whether the priority of face concerns is the same or different in intracultural and intercultural face-threatening business communication. We hypothesized that managers would apply different face concerns in response to face threatening acts in interactions with either their compatriots or people from foreign cultures. We surveyed 380 Russian business professionals working in international companies. To measure face concerns we adapted the questionnaire by S. Ting-Toomey and J. Oetzel to the Russian sample. We compared two contexts using t-test and rmANOVA. Results showed a significant difference between face concerns in managers behaviour in intercultural and intracultural communication. Managers tend to employ either self-face or mutual-face rather than other-face concern in intracultural communication. On the contrary, they prefer mutual-face rather than self-face or other-face concerns in intercultural communication. These results provide empirical evidence that Russian managers create public image in business interactions considering cultural differences and modify their behaviour to fit the context.","PeriodicalId":39189,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intercultural Communication Research","volume":"52 1","pages":"237 - 260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42144213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-30DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2162950
N. Vu, Thi Thanh Tam Tran
ABSTRACT In this study, we sought to measure specific changes in Vietnamese higher education students’ intercultural communicative competence, drawn from the theoretical frameworks of intercultural communicative competence and student engagement. By adopting a concurrent mixed-method approach, this study aims to generate a fresh insight into how Vietnamese college students can learn English by engaging in TED Talks to support their acquisition of intercultural experiences. Findings showed changes in the student participants’ levels of engagement in intercultural communicative competence, both cognitively and behaviourally. For the purpose of filling missing literature and providing pedagogical implications, this publication also proposes future research avenues in order to fill literature gaps and discover further pedagogical implications.
{"title":"“Why Do Ted Talks Matter?” A Pedagogical Intervention to Develop Students’ Intercultural Communicative Competence","authors":"N. Vu, Thi Thanh Tam Tran","doi":"10.1080/17475759.2022.2162950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2022.2162950","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this study, we sought to measure specific changes in Vietnamese higher education students’ intercultural communicative competence, drawn from the theoretical frameworks of intercultural communicative competence and student engagement. By adopting a concurrent mixed-method approach, this study aims to generate a fresh insight into how Vietnamese college students can learn English by engaging in TED Talks to support their acquisition of intercultural experiences. Findings showed changes in the student participants’ levels of engagement in intercultural communicative competence, both cognitively and behaviourally. For the purpose of filling missing literature and providing pedagogical implications, this publication also proposes future research avenues in order to fill literature gaps and discover further pedagogical implications.","PeriodicalId":39189,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intercultural Communication Research","volume":"52 1","pages":"314 - 333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48322810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-22DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2161003
Bherta Sri Eko, Hendar Putranto, Veronika Veronika
ABSTRACT Indonesia’s ethnic-cultural diversity becomes a paradox when perpetuating discriminatory values and harmful practices. Sifon is a circumcision ritual practised by the Atoni Pah Meto ethnic community in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. This study examines Sifon as a communication event and uses the critical communication ethnography approach and muted group theory to unveil its repressive cultural elements. Data collection techniques include in-depth interviews, participant-observers, and document studies. Observing how power, prestige, privilege, and authority systems construct women’s dependent identity and silence them, the authors argue that Sifon-media women are doubly muted from their embodied experiences to enjoy a healthy cultural life.
{"title":"Unveiling the Repressive Culture Towards Female Sexuality: A Critical Communication Ethnography of Sifon Circumcision Rituals in Atoni Pah Meto Ethnic Community","authors":"Bherta Sri Eko, Hendar Putranto, Veronika Veronika","doi":"10.1080/17475759.2022.2161003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2022.2161003","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Indonesia’s ethnic-cultural diversity becomes a paradox when perpetuating discriminatory values and harmful practices. Sifon is a circumcision ritual practised by the Atoni Pah Meto ethnic community in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. This study examines Sifon as a communication event and uses the critical communication ethnography approach and muted group theory to unveil its repressive cultural elements. Data collection techniques include in-depth interviews, participant-observers, and document studies. Observing how power, prestige, privilege, and authority systems construct women’s dependent identity and silence them, the authors argue that Sifon-media women are doubly muted from their embodied experiences to enjoy a healthy cultural life.","PeriodicalId":39189,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intercultural Communication Research","volume":"52 1","pages":"379 - 402"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44228832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-15DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2155865
N. Basaraba
ABSTRACT This paper examines the conceptualization and expression of cultural diversity and unity within the European Capitals of Culture (ECOC) initiative using a case study approach. Previous case studies have examined the impacts of the programmes from a single-city perspective and used quantitative and economic-focused approaches to evaluate impact. However, the ECOC initiative was intended to showcase the diverse cultures in Europe rather than focus on economic outcomes. A cultural discourse analysis was applied to eight winning cities between 2015 and 2019 (proceeding the onset of COVID-19) to answer the question: are ECOC focusing on expressing their national or regional diversity and identities or are they communicating a more generalized European perspective? The results showed that in the past five-year ECOCs have chosen to engage in more diverse and localized forms of cultural expression in their events, but not in their visual communications. Based on the analysis, a series of recommendations for future programme development are made (also published as a separate policy brief) to enhance ECOC’s ability to balance the communication of their diversity with their connection to Europe.
{"title":"Cross-comparing the Concept of “United in Diversity” as Expressed by European Capitals of Culture","authors":"N. Basaraba","doi":"10.1080/17475759.2022.2155865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2022.2155865","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines the conceptualization and expression of cultural diversity and unity within the European Capitals of Culture (ECOC) initiative using a case study approach. Previous case studies have examined the impacts of the programmes from a single-city perspective and used quantitative and economic-focused approaches to evaluate impact. However, the ECOC initiative was intended to showcase the diverse cultures in Europe rather than focus on economic outcomes. A cultural discourse analysis was applied to eight winning cities between 2015 and 2019 (proceeding the onset of COVID-19) to answer the question: are ECOC focusing on expressing their national or regional diversity and identities or are they communicating a more generalized European perspective? The results showed that in the past five-year ECOCs have chosen to engage in more diverse and localized forms of cultural expression in their events, but not in their visual communications. Based on the analysis, a series of recommendations for future programme development are made (also published as a separate policy brief) to enhance ECOC’s ability to balance the communication of their diversity with their connection to Europe.","PeriodicalId":39189,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intercultural Communication Research","volume":"52 1","pages":"357 - 378"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46757375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-09DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2155864
M. Khoshsaligheh, Elmira Soleimanirad, Salasiah Che Lah
{"title":"Review of Theatre Translation: A Practice as Research Model. Palgrave 2021","authors":"M. Khoshsaligheh, Elmira Soleimanirad, Salasiah Che Lah","doi":"10.1080/17475759.2022.2155864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2022.2155864","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39189,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intercultural Communication Research","volume":"52 1","pages":"125 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47765789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-06DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2155863
Petr Wawrosz, Miroslav Jurásek
ABSTRACT The construct of cultural intelligence (“CQ”) consists of four facets (metacognitive, cognitive, motivational, and behavioural). The objective of this study is to identify the CQ facet best able to predict overall intercultural adjustment. Twenty independent hierarchical multiple regression models were performed on a sample of 189 international students studying at Czech universities in a foreign language. The results showed that the CQ facet that best predicts intercultural adjustment, when controlling for demographic variables and preparedness for study abroad, is the motivational CQ facet. However, a significant relationship was also discovered for all remaining CQ facets and intercultural adjustment.
{"title":"The Role of Cultural Intelligence Facets in Cross-Cultural Adjustment","authors":"Petr Wawrosz, Miroslav Jurásek","doi":"10.1080/17475759.2022.2155863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2022.2155863","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The construct of cultural intelligence (“CQ”) consists of four facets (metacognitive, cognitive, motivational, and behavioural). The objective of this study is to identify the CQ facet best able to predict overall intercultural adjustment. Twenty independent hierarchical multiple regression models were performed on a sample of 189 international students studying at Czech universities in a foreign language. The results showed that the CQ facet that best predicts intercultural adjustment, when controlling for demographic variables and preparedness for study abroad, is the motivational CQ facet. However, a significant relationship was also discovered for all remaining CQ facets and intercultural adjustment.","PeriodicalId":39189,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intercultural Communication Research","volume":"52 1","pages":"216 - 235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49247422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-30DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2132985
Alireza Hashemzadegan, Mehdi Sabooripour
ABSTRACT Contrary to the initial expectations, censorship managed to survive through the Digital Age as far as Internet censorship is today a global issue. The present paper attempts to provide insight into some new forms of censorship through investigating the various restrictions imposed on the Iranian nation by the United States. This study has shown that the U.S. government (in collaboration with Meta, Twitter, and Google) suppresses the Iranian media, removing them from the platforms, limiting Iranians’ access to the Internet, and silencing their dissenting voices in order to preserve its monopoly on the narrative. The results of this investigation also reveal one of the most extensive cases of censorship in the history of social media, which has been practiced by Instagram against General Qasem Soleimani.
{"title":"Silencing a Nation: How the United States Restricts and Censors Iranians on the Internet","authors":"Alireza Hashemzadegan, Mehdi Sabooripour","doi":"10.1080/17475759.2022.2132985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2022.2132985","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Contrary to the initial expectations, censorship managed to survive through the Digital Age as far as Internet censorship is today a global issue. The present paper attempts to provide insight into some new forms of censorship through investigating the various restrictions imposed on the Iranian nation by the United States. This study has shown that the U.S. government (in collaboration with Meta, Twitter, and Google) suppresses the Iranian media, removing them from the platforms, limiting Iranians’ access to the Internet, and silencing their dissenting voices in order to preserve its monopoly on the narrative. The results of this investigation also reveal one of the most extensive cases of censorship in the history of social media, which has been practiced by Instagram against General Qasem Soleimani.","PeriodicalId":39189,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intercultural Communication Research","volume":"52 1","pages":"99 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48155073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-25DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2152076
Mostafa Morady Moghaddam, Mohammad Hossein Tirnaz
ABSTRACT In this study, an attempt is made to probe two sets of widely used ELT textbooks in the Iranian context based on the representation of intercultural communicative competence (ICC). In accord with the theoretical assumptions underlying ICC, we analysed seven English textbooks to find out how they take into consideration the intercultural components including intercultural knowledge, intercultural attitude, and intercultural skills. This paper manifested that unlike the locally produced Iranian Vision series, the Top Notch series was found to take a much broader international approach in representing cultural elements associated with the development of language learners’ ICC. The Vision series has failed to include diverse intercultural components. This alienation is highlighted through insufficient references to the target (or other) cultures, whereby it results in the deprivation of language learners from the authentic, real-life cultural contexts, which adversely affects the development of language learners’ intercultural competence.
{"title":"Representation of Intercultural Communicative Competence in ELT Textbooks: Global Vs. Local Values","authors":"Mostafa Morady Moghaddam, Mohammad Hossein Tirnaz","doi":"10.1080/17475759.2022.2152076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2022.2152076","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this study, an attempt is made to probe two sets of widely used ELT textbooks in the Iranian context based on the representation of intercultural communicative competence (ICC). In accord with the theoretical assumptions underlying ICC, we analysed seven English textbooks to find out how they take into consideration the intercultural components including intercultural knowledge, intercultural attitude, and intercultural skills. This paper manifested that unlike the locally produced Iranian Vision series, the Top Notch series was found to take a much broader international approach in representing cultural elements associated with the development of language learners’ ICC. The Vision series has failed to include diverse intercultural components. This alienation is highlighted through insufficient references to the target (or other) cultures, whereby it results in the deprivation of language learners from the authentic, real-life cultural contexts, which adversely affects the development of language learners’ intercultural competence.","PeriodicalId":39189,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intercultural Communication Research","volume":"52 1","pages":"191 - 215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46517428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-06DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2142271
Yue Hu, Huan Chen
ABSTRACT Chinese international students represent a distinct group for social media studies. The present research investigates the social media platforms they choose to express their opinions by conducting a phenomenological interview of 20 Chinese international students from different universities in the U.S. The result shows that the experience of studying abroad causes Chinese international students to have opinions that differ from those of the major users of Chinese social media; they prefer to express their opinions on Chinese social media; technological issues such as privacy settings and functions influence their choice; and, differences in gratifications lead to different choices of social media platforms.
{"title":"Silence on Social Media: Factors Shaping Chinese International Students’ Decision on Speaking up on Social Media","authors":"Yue Hu, Huan Chen","doi":"10.1080/17475759.2022.2142271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2022.2142271","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Chinese international students represent a distinct group for social media studies. The present research investigates the social media platforms they choose to express their opinions by conducting a phenomenological interview of 20 Chinese international students from different universities in the U.S. The result shows that the experience of studying abroad causes Chinese international students to have opinions that differ from those of the major users of Chinese social media; they prefer to express their opinions on Chinese social media; technological issues such as privacy settings and functions influence their choice; and, differences in gratifications lead to different choices of social media platforms.","PeriodicalId":39189,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intercultural Communication Research","volume":"52 1","pages":"166 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47875871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-31DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2137559
Shehda Abuisaac, Jamal Albasha, M. Ghaith, Ahmad Arifin Bin Sapar
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the translational transference of culturally-bound utterances and expressions of the Qur’anic discourse into English. The study adopts a qualitative research method and content text analysis to analyse how culturally-bound utterances and expressions of the source language text were translated into English by two well-known translators. The study argues that lexicosemantic realization and analysis of the culturally-bound utterances and expressions of Arabic is a mandatory pre-condition to accurately transfer them into English. The studyproposes Lexicosemantic Decipherability Strategy that may assist translators to accurately select the target language lexicosemantic items of different genres.
{"title":"Barriers of Intercultural Communication in Transferring Culturally-Bound Utterances and Expressions of the Qur’an from Arabic into English: Implications and Strategy","authors":"Shehda Abuisaac, Jamal Albasha, M. Ghaith, Ahmad Arifin Bin Sapar","doi":"10.1080/17475759.2022.2137559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2022.2137559","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper investigates the translational transference of culturally-bound utterances and expressions of the Qur’anic discourse into English. The study adopts a qualitative research method and content text analysis to analyse how culturally-bound utterances and expressions of the source language text were translated into English by two well-known translators. The study argues that lexicosemantic realization and analysis of the culturally-bound utterances and expressions of Arabic is a mandatory pre-condition to accurately transfer them into English. The studyproposes Lexicosemantic Decipherability Strategy that may assist translators to accurately select the target language lexicosemantic items of different genres.","PeriodicalId":39189,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intercultural Communication Research","volume":"52 1","pages":"1 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47566148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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