The paper discusses the differences between intracultural communication and intercultural communication froma socio-cognitive perspective that treats this relationship as a continuum rather than a dichotomy.Movement on the continuum, anddifferences between the two phenomena are affected by different factors that will be discussed in the paper. The hypothetical left end of the continuum is intra...

As our global interdependence grows, understanding how culture affects trust and how we can manage trust in intercultural relations is imperative. However, relatively few studies have focused on the relationship between trust and culture, and little of this work examined multiple trust phases sequentially to reveal the dynamics of trust over time. This research examined how the cultural differe...

This study aims to explore the variables in perceptions of (im)politeness in an intercultural apology, focusing on discussion of the cultural and gender differences. Through the study’s instrument, a conversation between an Australian and a Taiwanese Chinese speaker, the study suggests that there are indeed some differences in perceptions of (im)politeness across d...

This paper presents an ethnographic case study of advanced second language (L2) students from Hong Kong who took part in a short-term sojourn in England after fourteen weeks of preparation. While abroad, they lived with a host family, took literary/ cultural studies courses, visited cultural sites, participated in debriefing sessions, and conducted ethnographic projects. Data consisted of inter...

This chapter defines professional communication in intercultural contexts. It presents a workable model of culture, connects that model to rhetoric, and provides a method to analyze rhetorics and cultures in intercultural contexts. It also contextualizes the model of intercultural rhetorical research in prevailing paradigms of rhetoric and professional communication, strongly criticizing the lo...

This paper reports about on-going research into interaction design patterns in intercultural remote collaboration. It proposes that interaction and interface design patterns help to communicate and generate new design knowledge in supporting intercultural teamwork. It describes methods used to observe and develop design patterns in collocated, remote and blended collaborative learning and desig...

0749-5978/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2010.02.001 * Corresponding author. Fax: +1 301 314 9566. E-mail address: [email protected] (L. Imai). Although scholars and practitioners have repeatedly touted the importance of negotiating effectively across cultures, paradoxically, little research has addressed what predicts intercultural negotiation effectiveness. In th...

Offshore software development outsourcing (OSDO) is an emerging business approach adopted by many software development organisations in developed countries. However significant outsourcing failure rates have also been reported. One of the major issues in is cultural distance which should be taken into account by software outsourcing organisations (vendors) in order to develop high quality softw...

This paper is about only one of the many aspects that affect communication: culture. I will try to show that people from different cultures differ considerably in their view of the forms and means of communication that are appropriate in a certain context and situation. Furthermore I will show that if people involved in intercultural communication reckon with those differences in communication,...

Cultural psychology ultimately aims to increase intercultural understanding, but it has also been accused of reifying stereotypes. Can learning about cultural psychology research cause students to increase their cultural sensitivity, or does it increase stereotyped and rigid thinking about cultural others? Students in an undergraduate cultural psychology course (N = 34) were compared to student...