Georg Simmel's Concept of the Stranger and Intercultural Communication Research

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Everett M. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
The Stranger

Intercultural Communicative Performance and the Body

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-301
Author(s):  
Stephen Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
William James ◽  
Communication Training ◽  
The Body ◽  
Third Culture ◽  
Management Learning ◽  
Communicative Performance ◽  
Culture Models ◽  
Dialogue Process ◽  
The Stranger

From the standpoint of an intercultural communication trainer in an exploration mode, the author starts by analyzing and evaluating two Third Culture models in order to sort out their contributions to practically improving intercultural communicative performance with the stranger. In his exploration he strives to move from competence to performance by shifting the focus of the abstract potential of competence to the body as an experiencing organism and its environment, the point in a situation where performance takes place. Along his path he also discovers interfaces with related discussions (e.g. the metaphors of music and dance, the pragmatist philosophy of John Dewey and William James, neuroevolution, the deemphasis of language, the concept of the “tacit” in Knowledge management, Learning Organization and a form of communication training called the Dialogue Process). All of these interfaces together the author found are internally commensurable with each other.

scholarly journals Celebrations at European Courts as Viewed by “Sarmatian” Travellers

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Filip Wolański
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Court Culture ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Symbolic Communication ◽  
European Court ◽  
Imperial Court ◽  
Social Elites ◽  
Royal Courts ◽  
Stereotypical Image

This article considers the way inhabitants of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth perceived European court ceremonies as reflected in their travel notes. More particularly, the author analyses texts of the eighteenth century, where the ceremonies described are treated as some of the most important elements of symbolic communication between the authorities and society. Eighteenth-century travelogues provide a comprehensive idea of contacts with royal courts and social elites (political but also cultural and even academic), which does not comply with the stereotypical image of such situations. Starting with the late seventeenth century, court culture mostly relied on French models, which is why the article presents ceremonies at the court of Versailles described by travellers from the nobility, clergy, and from a woman’s perspective. The author also describes ceremonies and etiquette of the imperial court in Vienna, as well as the very specific ceremonial of the Roman court. The latter was characterised by the participation of the Pope. The analysis relies on intercultural communication research methods.

The Dispositive of Intercultural Communication

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Dominic Busch
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Academic Fields

This article presents the concept of dispositives as it has been introduced by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. The concept will be contrasted with competing approaches from discourse analysis, and it will then be explored in its potential as a basis for empirical analysis. Dispositive analyses provide insights into how discourse, power, and knowledge shape society on a very general macro-level. Instead of linguistic, textual analyses, dispositive analysis helps to re-read the emergence, the development, and, as an example here, the inner composition of academic fields. This article sketches insights from a dispositive perspective into the field of intercultural communication research that is then interpreted as maintaining the dispositive of intercultural communication even if recent debates primarily aim at transcending old cementations of the discipline. The article will close with a discussion of shortcomings of the method that culminate in the challenge of argumentative circularity.

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