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- Title
Insights into the Differences - Similarities Dialectic in Intercultural Communication from University Students' Narratives.
- Authors
Root, Elizabeth
- Abstract
Within intercultural communication, the concept of cultural difference has often been overemphasized. One way to address this is to consider a dialectical approach to intercultural communication. This study examines the specific dialectic of differences-similarities and considers ways to effectively incorporate this dialectic in intercultural pedagogy, based on a narrative analysis of 44 university students' narratives. Three themes regarding how narrators approached the concept of cultural difference or similarity were identified. The discussion focuses on the need to provide more accessible ways to communicate aspects of difference/similarity and the need to highlight the relational element of this specific dialectic.
- Subjects
CROSS-cultural differences; DIALECTIC; CROSS-cultural communication; NARRATIVES; COLLEGE students
- Publication
Intercultural Communication Studies, 2013, Vol 22, Issue 3, p61
- ISSN
1057-7769
- Publication type
Article