عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Country Code
IR
Number
170T
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION OR PRODUCTlON
Country of publication
IR
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Another Thanksgiving dinner: Language, identity and history in the age of globalization
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
;supervisor Kramsch, Claire
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of California, Berkeley: United States -- California
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
: 2009
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
145 pages
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Body granting the degree
, University of California, Berkeley: United States -- California
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Intercultural communication is often discussed with reference to the participants' culturally different knowledge, its impact upon their conversational styles and the accompanying effect on success or failure in communicating across cultures. Contemporary intercultural encounters, however, are more complicated and dynamic in nature since people live in multiple and shifting spaces with accompanying identities while national, cultural, and ideological boundaries are obscured due to the rapid globalization of economy, the accompanying global migration and the recent innovations in global information/communication technologies.Re-conceptualizing the notion of context as conditions for discourse occurrences, this dissertation research aims to explore the social, cultural, ideological and historical dimensions of conversational discourse between participants with multiple and changing identities in an intercultural global context. An ethnographic research was conducted during 2006-2007 in an American non-profit organization founded 50 years ago to foster social and cultural exchanges among female foreign visitors at a prestigious American university in New England, USA. Building on Deborah Tannen's famous Thanksgiving dinner (Tannen 1983), a 30 minute conversation among a Russian, a German and two Japanese speakers, who participated in the Thanksgiving Program, was tape-recorded and analyzed together with playback interviews and participants' journals. The study disclosed that participants not only brought ideological and historical elements in the given intercultural communicative context but also started viewing themselves in the mirror of the "Other" and ultimately constructed their "Self" in "Other" with reference to their cultural memories of WWII and their postwar histories. The following contrastive study of three German and three Japanese subjects' journals and the transcriptions of their interviews with the researcher further confirmed history's impacts upon intercultural communication research.The result shows the benefits of triangulating the relationship between Japan and Germany with the U.S. from inclusion of a third participant and/or a third perspective in the studied context. Accordingly, it suggests the need for a post-structuralist approach to discourse analysis in our globalized world (Blommaert 2005). Conversational style in intercultural encounters needs to be researched from an ecological perspective that takes into account the ideological and historical dimensions of speaking subjects.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Modern language
Communication
Sociolinguistics
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Language
Subject Term
Identity
Subject Term
Discourse analysis
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Ecological perspective
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Globalization
Subject Term
Inter-subjectivity
Subject Term
Intercultural communication
Subject Term
Poststructuralism
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Uryu, Michiko
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Country
ایران
Agency
National Center for Globalization Studies
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