Intercultural Relations in Georgia and Tajikistan: A Post-Conflict Model

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

Intercultural Relations and Acculturation in the Pacific Region

JOURNAL OF PACIFIC RIM PSYCHOLOGY Volume 4, Issue 2 pp. 95–102 Address for correspondence: John W. Berry, Queen’s University, 154 Albert St, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6. E-mail: [email protected] The Pacific region encompasses perhaps the most diverse set of cultures in the world. From indigenous peoples in East Asia and the Pacific islands, through to those in the Western hemisphere, and fr...

Small Arms and Conflict in the Republic of Georgia

Towards a Political Ecology of Oil in Post-communist Georgia: the conflict over the Kulevi Oil Port Development

The establishment of a new oil terminal near Kulevi on the Black Sea coast of Georgia has become a highly controversial mega-project, and this article explores its political and environmental significance in the context of rising global demand for the region's oil and gas reserves. The Kulevi Terminal is intended to be a storage facility and a transfer point for black oil, fuel oil and other oi...

A model of relationship between collective identity and language in pluricultural and plurilingual settings: Influence on intercultural relations

The introduction of the Spanish Constitution in 1978, together with the development of the Statutes of Autonomy in the autonomous communities, established the co-official status of the regional language alongside Spanish. In one of these communities, Catalonia, located on the north-west boundary of the Lleida province, is the Aran Valley, where three languages coexist: Occitan-Aranese (regional...