Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099654
- eISBN:
- 9789882207295
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099654.003.0002
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
In taking on the intercultural encounters, particularly in business and professional settings, examining concepts and frameworks that are usually taken for granted individually would prove to be ...
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In taking on the intercultural encounters, particularly in business and professional settings, examining concepts and frameworks that are usually taken for granted individually would prove to be inadequate in interpreting their complex interactions. As demonstrated by a number of different studies in recent years, research regarding intercultural communication in business has grown within and beyond Europe, Australia, Malaysia, and various other countries in Asia. One of the main features of these studies is the appreciation of discursive practices' situated nature. As such, the reader should not only be able to utilize his or her own resources in being most efficient, but also interpret his or her colleagues' communication and behavior as well. This chapter introduces the intercultural business discourse (IBD) as an attempt to capture intercultural encounters' situated and interactional nature.Less
In taking on the intercultural encounters, particularly in business and professional settings, examining concepts and frameworks that are usually taken for granted individually would prove to be inadequate in interpreting their complex interactions. As demonstrated by a number of different studies in recent years, research regarding intercultural communication in business has grown within and beyond Europe, Australia, Malaysia, and various other countries in Asia. One of the main features of these studies is the appreciation of discursive practices' situated nature. As such, the reader should not only be able to utilize his or her own resources in being most efficient, but also interpret his or her colleagues' communication and behavior as well. This chapter introduces the intercultural business discourse (IBD) as an attempt to capture intercultural encounters' situated and interactional nature.
Michelle MacCarthy
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780824855604
- eISBN:
- 9780824872175
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824855604.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
The prologue lays out the foundations for the chapters to follow. It introduces some of the primary themes to be covered, using the narratives of two of the tourists who exemplify the nature of what ...
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The prologue lays out the foundations for the chapters to follow. It introduces some of the primary themes to be covered, using the narratives of two of the tourists who exemplify the nature of what I call “primitivist” tourism. Then, the primary contexts are addressed: what primitivist tourism refers to, why tourism is a useful lens for understanding current issues in anthropology, and why I find the concept of “singularities” useful for understanding cultural commoditization. The introduction also provides a general outline of the chapters.Less
The prologue lays out the foundations for the chapters to follow. It introduces some of the primary themes to be covered, using the narratives of two of the tourists who exemplify the nature of what I call “primitivist” tourism. Then, the primary contexts are addressed: what primitivist tourism refers to, why tourism is a useful lens for understanding current issues in anthropology, and why I find the concept of “singularities” useful for understanding cultural commoditization. The introduction also provides a general outline of the chapters.
Eng-Beng Lim
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814760895
- eISBN:
- 9780814760567
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814760895.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gay and Lesbian Studies
This introductory chapter demonstrates that while orientalist dyadic formations are chronic and persistent in twentieth- and twenty-first-century intercultural encounters, queer couplings such as the ...
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This introductory chapter demonstrates that while orientalist dyadic formations are chronic and persistent in twentieth- and twenty-first-century intercultural encounters, queer couplings such as the white man/native boy remain under the critical radar in spite of their prevalence. The book addresses this case, and performs a comparative study of queer coupling on three circum-Pacific performance sites—Bali, Singapore, and the United States—as a primary object of performance history and analysis. This dyad commensurate visibility in critical studies of performance, theater, and culture, whether as a queer episteme or a colonial one—or both—intertwined throughout the encounter. In addition, an understanding of Asian encounters in a colonial-transnational frame lacks central substance by disregarding the account of queer couplings.Less
This introductory chapter demonstrates that while orientalist dyadic formations are chronic and persistent in twentieth- and twenty-first-century intercultural encounters, queer couplings such as the white man/native boy remain under the critical radar in spite of their prevalence. The book addresses this case, and performs a comparative study of queer coupling on three circum-Pacific performance sites—Bali, Singapore, and the United States—as a primary object of performance history and analysis. This dyad commensurate visibility in critical studies of performance, theater, and culture, whether as a queer episteme or a colonial one—or both—intertwined throughout the encounter. In addition, an understanding of Asian encounters in a colonial-transnational frame lacks central substance by disregarding the account of queer couplings.
Su Fang Ng
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- April 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198777687
- eISBN:
- 9780191864803
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198777687.003.0007
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, World History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter examines the synchronic renewals and the repurposing of Alexander the Great’s image in canonical English and Malay literatures. More specifically, it considers the transmission of the ...
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This chapter examines the synchronic renewals and the repurposing of Alexander the Great’s image in canonical English and Malay literatures. More specifically, it considers the transmission of the Alexander Romance and its common motifs into English and Malay as well as the shared strand of literary reception that link these traditions together as cousins rather than wholly separate. It also explores how both English and Malay literatures, invoking Alexander to mediate intercultural encounters, use him to fashion a vocabulary for a cultural politics of hybridity. More importantly, English and Malay literary traditions meet in connected themes mediated by Alexander and intersect in their shared deployment of him to figure intercultural relations arising from trade.Less
This chapter examines the synchronic renewals and the repurposing of Alexander the Great’s image in canonical English and Malay literatures. More specifically, it considers the transmission of the Alexander Romance and its common motifs into English and Malay as well as the shared strand of literary reception that link these traditions together as cousins rather than wholly separate. It also explores how both English and Malay literatures, invoking Alexander to mediate intercultural encounters, use him to fashion a vocabulary for a cultural politics of hybridity. More importantly, English and Malay literary traditions meet in connected themes mediated by Alexander and intersect in their shared deployment of him to figure intercultural relations arising from trade.
Menachem Mautner
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199383009
- eISBN:
- 9780190203603
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199383009.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter addresses the exclusion of women from Torah study through a fictive dialogue between a liberal and an Ultra-Orthodox Jew. This dialogic exchange represents a suitable scholarly approach ...
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This chapter addresses the exclusion of women from Torah study through a fictive dialogue between a liberal and an Ultra-Orthodox Jew. This dialogic exchange represents a suitable scholarly approach for cases of intercultural encounters; unlike traditional dialogues, however, this exchange benefits from literary and socio-legal sources, as well as customary ones, such as the Torah. This chapter discusses the foundational problems in understanding other cultures, the challenges in establishing a functional dialogue between parties as well as the divergent understandings and foundations of religion and tradition. This dialogue also considers the exclusion of women from Torah study from the perspective of the value of equality, which highlights a fundamental difference, articulated as “discrimination” by one and expressed as “distinction” by the other. In closing, this chapter submits that one understanding that emerges from this dialogue is the need to ground normative evaluations on a close examination of the facts.Less
This chapter addresses the exclusion of women from Torah study through a fictive dialogue between a liberal and an Ultra-Orthodox Jew. This dialogic exchange represents a suitable scholarly approach for cases of intercultural encounters; unlike traditional dialogues, however, this exchange benefits from literary and socio-legal sources, as well as customary ones, such as the Torah. This chapter discusses the foundational problems in understanding other cultures, the challenges in establishing a functional dialogue between parties as well as the divergent understandings and foundations of religion and tradition. This dialogue also considers the exclusion of women from Torah study from the perspective of the value of equality, which highlights a fundamental difference, articulated as “discrimination” by one and expressed as “distinction” by the other. In closing, this chapter submits that one understanding that emerges from this dialogue is the need to ground normative evaluations on a close examination of the facts.
