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Johnson, Esko – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2021
This study utilises the 'small story' approach to investigate metaphor in mobile students' narratives of intercultural experience. Metaphor in narrative is seen as a dynamic, discursive, and sociocognitive phenomenon. The narrative accounts presented in this paper derive from interviews conducted for mobility project evaluation. The participants…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Intercultural Communication, Figurative Language, Personal Narratives
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Nasrollahi Shahri, Mohammad Naseh – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2019
The study examines second language identities constructed in small stories around intercultural communication. It presents a detailed narrated-event and narrating-event analysis of small stories narrated by an Iranian user of English as a second language (ESL). The analysis suggests that small stories can become a site where second language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Usage, English (Second Language), Self Concept
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Codó, Eva – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2018
This paper examines the intersection of one form of contemporary mobility, i.e. lifestyle mobility, with the ELT industry. It draws on the discursive analysis of a small corpus of life story data produced by native English language teachers of different ages residing in Barcelona. Through their own personal and professional accounts and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Cordeiro, Maria Joao – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2011
Language difference is an intrinsic aspect of any kind of mobility and especially of tourism, the world's allegedly largest industry which develops around a myriad of multilingual and multicultural places. However, multilingualism and the intense intermingling of languages characterizing tourist sites are considered a potentially chaos-creating…
Descriptors: Tourism, Multilingualism, Portuguese, Guides
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Weiguo, Qu – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2013
The assumption that each culture has its own distinctive identity has been generally accepted in the discussion of cultural identities. Quite often identity formation is not perceived as a dynamic and interactive ongoing process that engages other cultures and involves change in its responses to different challenges at different times. I will…
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Self Concept, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Differences
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Sharma, Meenakshi – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2011
The writings of Indians in English provide a rich ground to explore the ways in which travellers and migrants from India to England relate to the realities of the place and to their place in it. Language and the literary education that characterised English education in India during colonial times play an important role in the construction of…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Indians, Intimacy, Foreign Countries