Language and Intercultural Communication最新文献

{"title":"Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times","authors":"Wenwen Zhang","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2022.2162766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2022.2162766","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135704526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Avatarian embodiment in Indigenous Futurisms 4D: the intersemiosis of intercultural encounters","authors":"R. Fawzy, Reham Farouk El Shazly","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2022.2159036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2022.2159036","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing on VR affordances and its relevant discourse of embodiment, immersion and engagement, Indigenous Futurisms (IF) challenges mainstream stereotypes of indigenous cultures. This article explores how the VR movie Crow: The Legend mediates an intercultural experience of IF. The framework proposed for understanding the virtually-mediated IF intercultural experience is grounded in the integration of SF-MDA and postphenomenology. The suggested theoretical integration interprets the VR embodied affordances of navigation, body movement, and hand gestures. The dialogue established in Crow between the interactants and VR technology unravels the cultural particularities of futurisms' notions of ‘non-linear temporality,' ‘selfdetermination,' ‘self-discovery,' ‘selflessness' and ‘diversity’.","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":"23 1","pages":"123 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49032673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Language, culture and interculturality: global debates, local challenges","authors":"Beatriz Peña Dix, J. Corbett","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2023.2166281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2023.2166281","url":null,"abstract":"This issue of LAIC brings together a selection of articles, revised and refereed, that, with one exception, grew out of presentations delivered at the 2021 conference of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC), on Language, culture and interculturality: global debates, local challenges. This conference was remarkable in a number of ways. For the first time in its two-decade history, the IALIC conference was hosted in South America, by the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá in Colombia. While the organisers originally hoped that this would be an in-person event, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic ultimately forced the conference online. This turned out to be a mixed blessing. While IALIC participants were denied the opportunity to visit Bogotá in person and enjoy the hospitality of what would have been an excellent conference venue in the Universidad de los Andes, the number of international participants increased both in their number and their diversity. With more than 200 online contributions coming from all over the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania, the 2021 IALIC conference became a truly global critical space in which to explore the nature of interculturality. The conference theme, conventionally broad in scope, invited participants to revisit and critique our theoretical and practical assumptions as scholars, educators and practitioners of interculturality, particularly in times of crisis. The contributors accepted the invitation with gusto, addressing and contesting established models of language, intercultural communication, and the modes by which we research and measure our outputs. Among the plenaries, Claire Kramsch raised specific concerns about the ways in which educators and students might engage in political debate around conflict in the language classroom, focusing on case studies of anti-Asian prejudice in the United States, the commemoration of Hiroshima, Israeli-Palestinian relations, and attitudes in Italy towards Muslim immigrants. Her discussion was complemented by Anne-Marie Truscott de Mejía, who reported on an international research project, carried out in Bogotá and in Paris, aimed at helping in-service language teachers and learners to grasp the complexity of intercultural relationships, with a particular reference to gender relations and the urban-rural divide. Emergent themes from the conference presentations included the challenges and affordances of researching multilingually, post-qualitative research methodologies, innovative ways of composing intercultural autoethnographies, arts-based research approaches, and bio-narratives. Appropriately, for the first IALIC conference in South America, a prominent theme was the decolonisation of language pedagogy, curricula and materials, especially when the major languages taught are potent symbols, not only of colonial hegemony but also of a scientific and economic positivism that holds out the promise of future prosperity. It ","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":"23 1","pages":"1 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48863831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chair's note","authors":"Cristina Ros i Solé","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2023.2166280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2023.2166280","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":"23 1","pages":"5 - 6"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46708598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intercultural mindfulness: artistic meaning-making about students’ intercultural experience at a UK university","authors":"Z. Huang","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2022.2162064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2022.2162064","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article, I use arts methods to explore the concept ‘intercultural mindfulness' as performed in students’ meaning-making about their intercultural experience at a UK university. The findings identify some less discussed qualities for mindfulness such as affective openness, embodied openness, and ethical-oriented openness, generosity, energy/effort, and liberated freedom. The study addresses a critical, theoretical ground for understanding and applying mindfulness in intercultural studies. Moving beyond the common focuses on cognitive skills or competence, it enriches the existing understanding of intercultural mindfulness by being attentive to the humanistic, affective, ethical, and ideological dimensions of mindfulness.","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":"23 1","pages":"36 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49334194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"COVID-19 and Interculturality: revisiting assumptions about intercultural competence and criticality development in Modern Language degree programmes","authors":"Elinor Parks","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2022.2162065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2022.2162065","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The initial response to Covid-19 exposed widespread racism and Sinophobia across the world, which contributed to a rethinking of equality and diversity in Higher Education (HE) and beyond. Within Modern Languages, much attention has been placed on decolonising the curriculum. The death of George Floyd in 2020 further contributed to an increased awareness of the need to rethink racism and challenge current practice within the curriculum. This paper re-examines the findings of a doctoral study exploring students' development of Intercultural Competence (IC) and criticality in Modern Languages with the aim of revisiting ways in which students' intercultural development can be defined and fostered in Higher Education.","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":"23 1","pages":"88 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49219310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times","authors":"Wenwen Zhang","doi":"10.4324/9781003090090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003090090","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":"1 1","pages":"142 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87078060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘ … vayan a San Miguel de Allende, además lleven su visa y su diccionario los que no sepan hablar inglés pues ya se han apropiado de todo los gringos.’ The discursive struggle for interculturality in a gentrified hybrid Mexican city","authors":"C. Anderson, Ireri Armenta Delgado","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2022.2162536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2022.2162536","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper focuses on interculturality in the discursive construction of the Mexican city of San Miguel de Allende that is culturally hybrid due to Americanisation and gentrification caused by North American migration and tourism. Constructing their own community as ‘expats’, this homogenous group produces and reproduces a dominant discourse that normalises Americanisation and gentrification. There is, however, a resistant discourse from multiple voices, both North American and Mexican, that problematises this hybridity in terms of negative consequences for local Mexicans of rising costs, displacement, and a sense of alienation, particularly felt in how English has become a lingua franca.","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":"23 1","pages":"105 - 122"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45374591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"English Language Teacher Educators’ critical professional identity constructions and negotiations","authors":"Julio César Torres-Rocha","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2023.2166058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2023.2166058","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study sought to examine how professional identities of English Language Teacher Educators (ELTEs) evolved considering current socio-political factors surrounding Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL) in Colombia. This in-depth research examined how a group of 5 non-native ELTEs constructed and transformed their identity in an English Teacher Education programme. It is framed by an interpretive paradigm and a critical action research approach. Interviews, a series of small group study events, and ELTEs' reflective reports were the three approaches employed to collect the data. The main finding of this investigation showed a certain degree of change in participants' professional identities.","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":"23 1","pages":"53 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47997469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Migrants’ NATION-AS-BODY metaphors as expressions of transnational identities","authors":"A. Musolff","doi":"10.1080/14708477.2022.2157836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2022.2157836","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The metaphors nation-as-body and nation-as-person have been used widely in xenophobic discourses targeting migrants as diseases, taboo body parts or flawed character traits of the body politic. It may then come as a surprise to find such metaphors back in a sample of migrants' responses in a cross-cultural survey of metaphors interpretation, which forms the data of this article. Migrants reinterpret these metaphors to negotiate their fear or criticism of marginalization and praising advantages of mixed identities. These self-validating strategies may be utilized in didactic contexts to counter traditionally discriminatory discourses.","PeriodicalId":46608,"journal":{"name":"Language and Intercultural Communication","volume":"23 1","pages":"229 - 240"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42063357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}