This chapter is intended to serve as an overview of intercultural communication studies by
introducing key issues and assumptions, describing some of the major studies in the field …

Our times are often referred to as the 'new world order'with its 'new economy'. What this
means is that capitalism has been restructured on a global scale, and people of widely …

This essay opens a conversation in the Journal of Multicultural Discourses on cultural
approaches to discourse analysis. Culturally-inclusive approaches to discourse analysis …

Most politeness theoretical frameworks are derived from Euro-American ways of thinking,
with facework and the notion of rationality often being their common denominators. In this …

In this paper, I narrate highlights of my long process of learning and teaching English as a
foreign language in mainland China and Australia, presenting a picture of the practices of …

Against the backdrop of overwhelming discourse scholarship emanating from the Western
cosmopolitan centres, this volume offers a development-centred approach to unfamiliar …

Based on a series of videoconferences held between two universities, one located in China
and another in the United States, this pilot curriculum study illustrates how successful …

Cultural psychology as a discipline is designed ultimately to help understand and to help
guide cultural practice. In the present study, we focus on the case of present-day Chinese …

Face and politeness in fandom in the People's Republic of China are driven by a dominating
focus on rank, which entails a prodigious amount of social media interaction, primarily …

本文通过DCT 问卷调查研究汉语本族语者(调查组) 和英语本族语者(对照组)
在跨文化冲突语境下面子协商行为的差异性, 分析造成这些差异的原因, 并尝试构建跨文化冲突 …