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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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Ladegaard, Hans J.; Cheng, Ho Fai – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2014
This article analyses how university students in Hong Kong talk about "self" and "other". Three groups of students, Hong Kong Chinese, Mainland Chinese, and Overseas Exchange students, were asked to characterise these three groups in a pre-discussion questionnaire, and subsequently discuss freely what they had written. Selected…
Descriptors: Intergroup Relations, College Students, Foreign Countries, Asians
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Shi, Xingsong – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2011
Through scrutinizing three simulated negotiation cases of Chinese MBA students in an American business school, the study illustrates how Chinese face ideology functioned to orient and complicate the students' (pseudo-)business communications with Americans. The students' bone-deep sensitivity to maintaining harmony and interrelationships in the…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Social Networks, Business Administration Education, Masters Programs