Summary Details
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intercultural communication
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| Author: | Christiane Meierkord | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics Anthropological Linguistics |
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| Summary: |
Dear colleagues! Some time (or rather a long time) ago, I posted a query to the list asking for information on research activities regarding intercultural communication. Please excuse me for writing this summary so late, but two kids have been keeping me rather busy. I would like to thank all respondants for the valuable information that was supplied to me. As almost everyone expressed their wish to get into contact with others working in this area, I have included your e-mail addresses in the following summary. Anne Barron <abarron@ollamh.ucd.ie> (University College Dublin, Ireland) is doing a PhD, studying the effects of a year abroad on the development of pragmatic competence among second language learners of German and is interested in the development of pragmatic competence in general. Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta <sangeeta.bagga-gupta@hoe.se> (University of Linkping, Sweden) has done an ethnographic description of the communication environment at the NGO, where women from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds are employed. Christine Anthonissen <canthoni@artsn.uwc.acz> (University of Western Cape, South Africa) is co-author of a book titled "Communication Across Cultures in South-Africa - toward a Critical Language Awareness", which she uses to teach undergraduates. Laura Chao-Chih Liao <ccliao@fcusqnt.fcn.edu.tw> (Feng Chia University, Taiwan) has published several books and articles on different aspects of intercultural communication, contrastive pragmatics, discourse analysis and gender differences, all related to Chinese and American English. Peter Kistler <pkbdg@ibm.net> (Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung, Indonesia) applies ethnomethodological conversation analysis to German-Indonesian conversations. He is especially interested in "critical incidents" and discourse structure. Tom Koole <tom.koole@let.ruu.nl> (Utrecht Institute of Linguistics, Netherlands) has published articles relating to intercultural communication in team discourse and business negotiations. Susan Meredith Burt <burt@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu> (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USA) is working in the area of native / non-native interaction, particularly on issues of linguistic accomodation by native speakers to non-native speakers. Hannes Kniffka <ssp01@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.de> has published a book titled "Elements of Culture-Contrastive Linguistics", which summarizes empirical and practical consequences for analyses of intercultural communication, especially related to the cultures of Saudi-Arabia, China and Maroc. Laura Hartley <hartleyl@pilot.msu.edu> (Michigan State University, USA) focusses on linguistic details of politeness in the speech act situation of complaints. Sally Hunt <lish@warthog.ru.ac.za> (Rhodes University, South Africa) has completed an MA thesis on interaction in small group teaching at university, focussing on gender and culture, and how these two factors affect the amount and kind of participation of the various students. Alain Dawson <orfqe@nordnet.fr> (University of Paris, France) is doing research on the mutual intelligibility of Slavic languages, especially on "how Russians understand texts written in other Slavic languages without having learnt them." Shikaripur N. Sridhar <ssridhar@ccmail.sunysb.edu> (State University of New York at Stony Brook) will be happy to provide information on "International varieties of English" and "Non-native intitutionalized varieties of English". Melanie Siegel <siegel@dfki.uni-sb.de> (Deutsches Forschungsinstitut fuer kuenstliche Intelligenz, Saarbruecken, Germany) did a PhD thesis on translation mismatches in Japanese-German translations. Anita Fetzer <Anita.Fetzer@po.uni-stuttgart.de> (Universiteat Stuttgart, Germany) has written her PhD thesis on negative interactions. She has developed a model which explains linguistic preferences regarding refusals, and she has tried to apply this model to second language teaching. Patricia Haegman <fte.haegeman.p@alpha.ufsia.ac.be> (University of Antwerp, Belgium) teaches courses in intercultural communication, both in interpersonal and business talk. She has written her PhD on "Business English in Flanders, A Study of Lingua Franca Telephone Interaction." Bernd Mueller-Jacquier <mue-jac@phil.tu-chemnitz.de> (Technische Universitaet Chemnitz, Germany) is head of the department for intercultural communication at Technische Universitaet Chemnitz, where several courses on different aspects of intercultural communication are being tought. You can visit their homepage, which also includes an interesting bibliography at http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/ikk/ Myself, I completed my PhD "English as a Medium of Intercultural Communication: An Analysis of Non-Native-/ Non-Native Speaker Discourse" in 1995. I analysed discourse structural (topic development, turn-taking etc.) and politeness phenomena. Currently, I am doing two projects both in the area of intercultural communication. One investigates gender and culture as possible factors influencing the ability to successfully communicate in intercultural situations. This study focusses on Japanese, Korean and German speakers using English as a lingua franca and examines discourse structural as well as politeness phenomena. In a second project, a Japanese colleague (Yuko Sugita <yuko@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de>) and myself take a look at more formal situations, i.e. intercultural interaction in Japanese companies. We hope to find out about the linguistic differences between Japanese and German business communication and the way these influence Japanese and German speakers' use of English as a communication tool. I hope to be able to update this list from time to time. So, if you happen to know anybody, who wants to share her/his knowledge on intercultural communication with others, please ask her/him to send me an e-mail. This list will also be accessibly via my homepage (http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/+meierkor) in about a month. Best wishes to everybody Dr. Christiane Meierkord Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf Modernes Japan Universitaetsstr. 1 40225 Duesseldorf Tel.: +49 (0)211 - 81-14709 e-mail: meierkor@uni-duesseldorf.de |
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| LL Issue: | 8.1031 | |
| Date Posted: | 11-Jul-1997 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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