Pub Date : 2022-10-19DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2134179
W. Kathy Tannous, A. Gaffney, Krishan Prasad
ABSTRACT Numerous studies have shown that international mobility programmes enhance students’ intercultural maturity development, regardless of duration, few have attempted to ascertain whether this change is long lasting. This study tested students two years after their participation to see if their intercultural maturity levels continued to progress, plateaued, or regressed in the intervening period. 93% of the study cohort continued to progress in their level of intercultural maturity in at least one dimension, with none regressing, and only one plateauing. This suggests that the shifts in identity, values, and skills that the students develop are far-reaching and profound.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-15DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2135579
Ming-Yi Wu
ABSTRACT By analysing survey data collected from 1,033 adults, this study examines health inequality related to COVID-19 protective health behaviours by ethnicity, trust, and concern in the U.S. There are three major findings. First, the U.S. adults can be categorized into four clusters based on their concern and public trust. Second, there are significant differences in concern and public trust among different ethnic groups. Finally, concern and public trust are the significant predictors for individuals’ protective health behaviours. When individuals have higher levels of concern and public trust, they are more likely to comply with the public health policies to adopt protective health measures. The results of this study highlight the importance of building public trust with co-cultural groups in order to promote protective health behaviours. Thus, this study brings additional insights into effective intercultural communication in the healthcare context.
{"title":"COVID-19 and Health Inequality: Explaining Differences in Public Trust and Concern by Ethnicity and Protective Health Behaviors with Predictive Analytics","authors":"Ming-Yi Wu","doi":"10.1080/17475759.2022.2135579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2022.2135579","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT By analysing survey data collected from 1,033 adults, this study examines health inequality related to COVID-19 protective health behaviours by ethnicity, trust, and concern in the U.S. There are three major findings. First, the U.S. adults can be categorized into four clusters based on their concern and public trust. Second, there are significant differences in concern and public trust among different ethnic groups. Finally, concern and public trust are the significant predictors for individuals’ protective health behaviours. When individuals have higher levels of concern and public trust, they are more likely to comply with the public health policies to adopt protective health measures. The results of this study highlight the importance of building public trust with co-cultural groups in order to promote protective health behaviours. Thus, this study brings additional insights into effective intercultural communication in the healthcare context.","PeriodicalId":39189,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intercultural Communication Research","volume":"51 1","pages":"543 - 560"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41406931","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 : 2022-09-29DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2130401
Jiwoo Park
ABSTRACT Using photo-elicitation interview (PEI), this paper demonstrates how twelve first-and-a-half generation children of Korean immigrants in the U.S. engage in digital media-driven Korean popular culture consumption, which underscores their ethnic identity formation. The result shows that frequent cultural interactions via digital media help them maintain their ethnic distinctiveness. Thus, the findings of this study support claims by segmented assimilationist scholars that adopting American ways of life and learning to identify as an American is not inevitable for all immigrants and their descendants despite their long residence in the U.S.
{"title":"Digital Media-Driven Korean Popular Culture Consumption among First-And-A-Half Generation Korean Immigrant Children","authors":"Jiwoo Park","doi":"10.1080/17475759.2022.2130401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2022.2130401","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Using photo-elicitation interview (PEI), this paper demonstrates how twelve first-and-a-half generation children of Korean immigrants in the U.S. engage in digital media-driven Korean popular culture consumption, which underscores their ethnic identity formation. The result shows that frequent cultural interactions via digital media help them maintain their ethnic distinctiveness. Thus, the findings of this study support claims by segmented assimilationist scholars that adopting American ways of life and learning to identify as an American is not inevitable for all immigrants and their descendants despite their long residence in the U.S.","PeriodicalId":39189,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intercultural Communication Research","volume":"51 1","pages":"611 - 627"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41876504","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 : 2022-09-27DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2130402
Ran Yi
{"title":"Intercultural Communication In Interpreting: Power And Choices","authors":"Ran Yi","doi":"10.1080/17475759.2022.2130402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2022.2130402","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39189,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intercultural Communication Research","volume":" 1","pages":"644 - 646"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41253533","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 : 2022-09-15DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2124304
Sholpan K. Zharkynbekova, A. Aimoldina
ABSTRACT With the greatest economic potential of the countries in the Central Asian region, the Republic of Kazakhstan is currently engaged in international commercial activities with more than 190 countries. At the same time, while actively pursuing modern marketing strategies and when communicating with business partners of different cultural and linguistic background, particularly, in business correspondence, Kazakhstan also bears witness to a Soviet legacy combined with specific Asian characteristics. The aim of this study is to examine socio-cultural factors identified in 316 business letters composed in Kazakh, Russian, and English, the most commonly used languages of the modern Kazakhstani business community. The forms of relationships between business communicants in the hierarchical chain of a superior and their subordinate are also considered, including their role statuses, social distance, the factors involved in the constructing a business text and other aspects.
{"title":"The Impact of Socio-cultural Context on Composing Business Letters in Modern Kazakhstani Business Community: A cross-cultural Study","authors":"Sholpan K. Zharkynbekova, A. Aimoldina","doi":"10.1080/17475759.2022.2124304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2022.2124304","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT With the greatest economic potential of the countries in the Central Asian region, the Republic of Kazakhstan is currently engaged in international commercial activities with more than 190 countries. At the same time, while actively pursuing modern marketing strategies and when communicating with business partners of different cultural and linguistic background, particularly, in business correspondence, Kazakhstan also bears witness to a Soviet legacy combined with specific Asian characteristics. The aim of this study is to examine socio-cultural factors identified in 316 business letters composed in Kazakh, Russian, and English, the most commonly used languages of the modern Kazakhstani business community. The forms of relationships between business communicants in the hierarchical chain of a superior and their subordinate are also considered, including their role statuses, social distance, the factors involved in the constructing a business text and other aspects.","PeriodicalId":39189,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intercultural Communication Research","volume":"52 1","pages":"56 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44513476","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 : 2022-08-29DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2113908
Luyu Chen, Milad Mehdizadkhani
ABSTRACT This article examines the (im)politeness of Disney’s two versions of Mulan and their receptions on Twitter. As for the films, it takes advantage of the availability of the same sharing scenes and storytelling scripts of the two versions. Considering their reception, over 6,700 tweets and comments were collected, using #Mulan and #DisneyMulan and from the two accounts of @DisneysMulan and @Disney, respectively. The analysis of the instances was based on the current literature on (im)politeness models. The results revealed that all of the impoliteness instances were found in the live-action version, guiding the inaccurate depiction of Chinese cultural and historical elements highlighted in the audiences’ comments, classified into pointed criticisms as the third most reoccurring strategy in the corpus.
{"title":"Disney’s Two Versions of Mulan (1998, 2020) and Twitter: A Reception Study in Terms of (Im)politeness","authors":"Luyu Chen, Milad Mehdizadkhani","doi":"10.1080/17475759.2022.2113908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2022.2113908","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the (im)politeness of Disney’s two versions of Mulan and their receptions on Twitter. As for the films, it takes advantage of the availability of the same sharing scenes and storytelling scripts of the two versions. Considering their reception, over 6,700 tweets and comments were collected, using #Mulan and #DisneyMulan and from the two accounts of @DisneysMulan and @Disney, respectively. The analysis of the instances was based on the current literature on (im)politeness models. The results revealed that all of the impoliteness instances were found in the live-action version, guiding the inaccurate depiction of Chinese cultural and historical elements highlighted in the audiences’ comments, classified into pointed criticisms as the third most reoccurring strategy in the corpus.","PeriodicalId":39189,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intercultural Communication Research","volume":"51 1","pages":"595 - 610"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43880135","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 : 2022-08-25DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2116079
Sakina Jangbar
ABSTRACT Profiling of Arabs and Muslim Americans as terrorists has led to exaggerated and fearful responses to ordinary incidents. I examine how sources shaped news coverage of Ahmed Mohamed, a teen, who was arrested for bringing a self-assembled clock to school. I analyse coverage of the incident in six media outlets: MSNBC and Washington Post used sources that highlighted racial discrimination; Fox News and Wall Street Journal used sources to cast suspicion on Ahmed’s technical abilities and family honour; and CNN and USA Today used sources to focus on the incident rather than address the problem. I conclude that the terror frame needs to be updated so that innocent citizens are not harmed by an irrational fear of Muslims.
{"title":"The Clock Boy: An Analysis of How News Outlets Used Sources to Conceal Bias in News Coverage of Ahmed Mohamed, a Muslim Teen Arrested for Bringing a Self-made Clock to School","authors":"Sakina Jangbar","doi":"10.1080/17475759.2022.2116079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2022.2116079","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Profiling of Arabs and Muslim Americans as terrorists has led to exaggerated and fearful responses to ordinary incidents. I examine how sources shaped news coverage of Ahmed Mohamed, a teen, who was arrested for bringing a self-assembled clock to school. I analyse coverage of the incident in six media outlets: MSNBC and Washington Post used sources that highlighted racial discrimination; Fox News and Wall Street Journal used sources to cast suspicion on Ahmed’s technical abilities and family honour; and CNN and USA Today used sources to focus on the incident rather than address the problem. I conclude that the terror frame needs to be updated so that innocent citizens are not harmed by an irrational fear of Muslims.","PeriodicalId":39189,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intercultural Communication Research","volume":"51 1","pages":"581 - 594"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48688433","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 : 2022-08-25DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2106289
Ahmad S. Haider, R. Hussein
ABSTRACT Subtitling is the most common way of translating audiovisual material interlingually or intralingually. This study examines the use of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) as a means of euphemism in the intralingual subtitles of Netflix’s Arabic series, Jinn which sparked uproar due to the immoral scenes and inappropriate language. Subsequent to watching the series and examining the source script in the Jordanian vernacular along with the MSA subtitles, the researchers categorized them into five categories based on the themes they cover. The findings showed that the MSA intralingual subtitles contributed to toning down the inappropriate language and rendered the show more acceptable to the audience. The study recommends other researchers to conduct more studies on the use of MSA versus colloquial Arabic as a translation strategy.
{"title":"Modern Standard Arabic as a Means of Euphemism: A Case Study of the MSA Intralingual Subtitling of Jinn Series","authors":"Ahmad S. Haider, R. Hussein","doi":"10.1080/17475759.2022.2106289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2022.2106289","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Subtitling is the most common way of translating audiovisual material interlingually or intralingually. This study examines the use of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) as a means of euphemism in the intralingual subtitles of Netflix’s Arabic series, Jinn which sparked uproar due to the immoral scenes and inappropriate language. Subsequent to watching the series and examining the source script in the Jordanian vernacular along with the MSA subtitles, the researchers categorized them into five categories based on the themes they cover. The findings showed that the MSA intralingual subtitles contributed to toning down the inappropriate language and rendered the show more acceptable to the audience. The study recommends other researchers to conduct more studies on the use of MSA versus colloquial Arabic as a translation strategy.","PeriodicalId":39189,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intercultural Communication Research","volume":"51 1","pages":"628 - 643"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46682466","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 : 2022-07-31DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2106510
Yuanwei Lyu, S. Holiday
ABSTRACT Research on selfies frequently focuses on motivational antecedents to the practice. To date, however, little scholarship has examined national and cultural differences in selfie motivations. The present study undertakes an identification and exploration of selfie motivations across nationalities by surveying 350 individuals from both China and the United States (the U.S.) who engage in the practice of taking and sharing selfies. Through factor analysis, analyses of variance, and moderation analysis, this study identifies both unique and shared cross-national motivations between China and U.S. individuals, examines how the identified mutual motivations differ between countries, and investigates how the cultural dimensions of individualism and collectivism influence selfie motivations. Implications for a modern, global selfie culture are discussed as well as what the identified results may indicate about cultural dimensions within a contemporary digital culture.
{"title":"Shared and Distinct Selfie Motivations between China and the U.S. and the Distinguishing Influence of Nationality and Cultural Dimensions","authors":"Yuanwei Lyu, S. Holiday","doi":"10.1080/17475759.2022.2106510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17475759.2022.2106510","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Research on selfies frequently focuses on motivational antecedents to the practice. To date, however, little scholarship has examined national and cultural differences in selfie motivations. The present study undertakes an identification and exploration of selfie motivations across nationalities by surveying 350 individuals from both China and the United States (the U.S.) who engage in the practice of taking and sharing selfies. Through factor analysis, analyses of variance, and moderation analysis, this study identifies both unique and shared cross-national motivations between China and U.S. individuals, examines how the identified mutual motivations differ between countries, and investigates how the cultural dimensions of individualism and collectivism influence selfie motivations. Implications for a modern, global selfie culture are discussed as well as what the identified results may indicate about cultural dimensions within a contemporary digital culture.","PeriodicalId":39189,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intercultural Communication Research","volume":"52 1","pages":"79 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43809696","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 : 2022-07-19DOI: 10.1080/17475759.2022.2102059
Elçin Haskollar, Tanu Kohli Bagwe
ABSTRACT There is ample evidence that intercultural and global learning programmes can create meaningful experiences for students. Despite the consensus on the importance of intercultural competence, the processes of how students gain these skills remain ambiguous. There is a lack of concluding research on the extent to which personal characteristics can affect intercultural competence, making it difficult to capture the true impact of these programmes on students. Using Bennett’s Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity, this study seeks to understand if student characteristics can influence intercultural competence. The data was collected from a convenience sample of 117 undergraduate students participating in four types of international and intercultural experiences. The Intercultural Development Inventory pre-test was used as an assessment tool to measure students’ intercultural competence. Applied descriptive statistics results summarised the dataset, followed by inferential statistics (simple regression, multiple regression, and chi-square test). The results indicate that 7.69% of students have an ethnorelative worldview, while 55.5% are in the transition stage from a monocultural to an ethnorelative mindset. Findings complement previous studies that race/ethnicity and gender are significant variables impacting intercultural competence. Our results provide a framework to higher education professionals for effective curriculum design and more accurate assessments of programme effectiveness.
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