Intercultural Conversation: Building Understanding Together

Watching Together: Integrating Conversation with Video

Watching video online is becoming increasingly popular, and new video streaming technologies have the potential to transform video-watching from a passive, isolating experience into an active, socially engaging experience. However, the viability of an active social experience is unclear: both chatting and watching video require attention, and may interfere with one another and detract from the ...

Human/Human Conversation Understanding

Understanding intercultural transitions of medical students

OBJECTIVE The aim of this research was to explore the transition of medical students to an international branch campus of a medical university established in Bahrain. METHODS In order to gain insights into this transition, we explored two culturally diverse systems of learning of the university and the local schools in Bahrain, using Communities of Practice as a lens for understanding transit...

jundishapur, a symbol of intercultural understanding

Vague Language and Interpersonal Communication: An Analysis of Adolescent Intercultural Conversation

This paper is concerned with the analysis of the spoken language of teenagers, taken from a newly developed specialised corpus the British and Taiwanese Teenage Intercultural Communication Corpus (BATTICC). More specifically, the study employs a discourse analytical approach to examine vague language in an intercultural context among a group of British and Taiwanese adolescents, paying particul...