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- Title
Japanese sojourners’ attitudes toward Americans: Exploring the influences of communication accommodation, linguistic competence, and relational solidarity in intergroup contact.
- Authors
Imamura, Makiko; Zhang, Yan Bing; Harwood, Jake
- Abstract
Guided by the intergroup contact hypothesis, the authors examined the associations among Japanese sojourners’ (N = 94) perceived linguistic competence with English, communication accommodation of their most frequent American contact, relational solidarity with the contact, and their attitudes toward Americans as a cultural group. Results indicated that participants’ linguistic competence with English and perceptions of Americans’ communication accommodation positively predicted their relational solidarity with their most frequent American contact. In addition, relational solidarity mediated the relationships between both linguistic competence and communication accommodation and cognitive and behavioral attitudes. Results were discussed in light of communication accommodation theory, the contact hypothesis and prior literature in intergroup and intercultural communication.
- Subjects
UNITED States; JAPANESE people; SOCIAL attitudes; COMMUNICATIVE competence; COMMUNICATION accommodation theory; SOLIDARITY; INTERGROUP communication; COMMUNICATIONS research; FOREIGN opinion of the United States; INTERGROUP relations
- Publication
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication (John Benjamins Publishing Co.), 2011, Vol 21, Issue 1, p115
- ISSN
0957-6851
- Publication type
Article