scholarly journals An Intercultural Analysis of Personal Metadiscourse in English and Chinese Commencement Speeches

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Yuting Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Spoken Discourse ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Commencement Speeches ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Intercultural Analysis

The existing metadiscourse studies on the comparison of English and Chinese language are relatively few, especially on spoken discourse. The present study examines the use of personal metadiscourse in English and Chinese commencement speeches based on Ädel’s reflexive model of metadiscourse and its adaption. The corpus for this study comprises 60 commencement speeches – 30 Chinese and 30 English – delivered in prestigious American and Chinese universities respectively. This study investigates (1) The similarities and differences in the use of personal metadiscourse in English and Chinese commencement speeches; (2) the possible reasons behind these similarities and differences. Qualitative and quantitative analysis indicates that American speeches feature markedly more personal metadiscourse than Chinese speeches. Textual analysis further reveals some similarities and differences in the discourse functions of personal metadiscourse between two sets of texts due to genre characteristics and social-cultural differences. The findings of this study provide some insight into the classification of Chinese metadiscourse and the awareness of cross-cultural communication.

scholarly journals Literature Focus Units as a Means of Exploring the Refugee Experience

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sang Hwang ◽  
Betty Coneway
Keyword(s):  
School Environment ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
New School ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Refugee Literature ◽  
Refugee Experience ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
A Current

<p>Changes in the nation’s demographics, a current focus on immigration, and the world’s refugee crisis require educators to explore positive ways to assist students and families in transition. This article suggests using refugee literature to help ease children into the new school environment. Books associated with the refugee theme are organized using the literature focus unit framework. Four specific children’s literature titles are highlighted within the piece; however, the suggested books and activities are provided as a model to assist teachers in gaining new insight into how they can use cross-cultural communication to explore the refugee experience. We propose that through this exemplar unit, teachers can learn about authentic instructional approaches that may help them meet the multicultural needs of a variety of diverse student groups.</p>

scholarly journals Comparative Move Analysis of Chinese and English Product Description on eBay

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 124-136
Author(s):  
Tang Lei
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Analysis Theory ◽  
Online Shoppers ◽  
Detail Page ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Product Description ◽  
Chinese And English

Based on the move analysis theory of the ESP school, this research selects 10 product description pages of both Chinese and American e-stores on the international e-commerce platform eBay as the corpus of this paper. Quantitative analysis is used to compare the distinctive move structures of the product description in Chinese and American e-stores in order to find out the similarities and differences of moves employed between different countries and try to give explanations for the reasons behind these differences from the perspective of cross-cultural communication. The results of this paper can be regarded as a valuable resource for those online shoppers from both China and America so that they can have a better idea to edit the product detail page and it is hoped that this paper could also provide some inspiration on the ESP teaching.

GlobalMind

2011 ◽  
pp. 205-229
Author(s):  
Hyemin Chung ◽  
Henry Lieberman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Machine Translation ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Language Resources ◽  
Language Differences ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Common Sense Knowledge

The need for more effective communication between people of different countries has increased as travel and communications bring more of the world’s people together. Communication is often difficult because of both language differences and cultural differences. Attempts to bridge these differences include many attempts to perform machine translation or provide language resources such as dictionaries or phrase books; however, many problems related to cultural and conceptual differences still remain. Automated mechanisms to analyze cultural similarities and differences might be used to improve traditional machine translators and as aids to cross-cultural communication. This article presents an approach to automatically compute cultural differences by comparing databases of common-sense knowledge in different languages and cultures. Global- Mind provides an interface for acquiring databases of common-sense knowledge from users who speak different languages. It implements inference modules to compute the cultural similarities and differences between these databases. In this article, the design of the GlobalMind databases, the implementation of its inference modules, as well as an evaluation of GlobalMind are described.

Does the source matter?

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 340-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Kotwica
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Constant Feature ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Changing Practices ◽  
Historical Variation ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This article provides an insight into the expression of reportative evidentiality in Spanish scientific articles published between 1799 and 1920. Central to the discussion is the presence and specificity of sources in reportative constructions. While contemporary scientific discourse prioritizes the use of specific, reportative-quotative evidentials, this is not a constant feature of articles analyzed in this study. In order to trace this historical variation, we established a classification of reportative constructions according to the specificity of the evidence they convey and we conducted both qualitative and quantitative analyses. According to our results, different specificity patterns were prominent in different temporal stages of the period under review. We argue that this can be interpreted in light of the growth and changing practices of the scientific community.

scholarly journals Biofunctionality of Carotenoid Metabolites: An Insight into Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis

10.5772/66210 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bangalore Prabhashankar Arathi ◽  
Poorigali Raghavendra-Rao Sowmya ◽  
Kariyappa Vijay ◽  
Vallikannan Baskaran ◽  
Rangaswamy Lakshminarayana
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Insight Into

International public relations and cross-cultural communication

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Aneta Parkes
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Multicultural Environment ◽  
International Public Relations ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
The Subject

The article presents the subject of international public relations, which can be defined as a process of communication in which its participants originate from different countries and cultural backgrounds. The differences in cross-cultural communication resulting from the variety of cultures are shown on the grounds of classification of cultures presented by R. Gesteland. Recognition of the basic cultural differences, which determine the process of communication, is a key factor to act efficiently as a Public Relations’ specialist in a multicultural environment.

scholarly journals Bees Assorter

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 61-65
Author(s):  
Himanshu Verma
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Bumble Bee ◽  
Wing Size ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Difference

Many attempts were made to classify the bees that is bumble bee or honey bee , there have been such a large amount of researches which were made to seek out the difference between them on the premise of various features like wing size , size of bee , color, life cycle and many more. But altogether the analysis there have been either that specialize in qualitative or quantitative , but to beat this issue , thus researchers came up with an answer which might be both qualitative and quantitative analysis made to classify them. And making use of machine learning algorithm to classify them gives a lift . Now the classification would take less time as these algorithms are pretty fast and accurate . By using machine learning work is made easy . Lots of photographs had to be collected and stored for data set. And by using these machine learning algorithms we would be getting information about the bees which might be employed by researchers in further classification of bees. Manipulation of images had to be done so as on prepare them in such a way that they will be applied to the algorithms and have feature extraction done. As there have been a lot of photographs(data set) which take a lot of space and also the area in which bees were present in these photographs were too small so to accommodate it dimension reduction was done , it might not consider other images like trees , leaves , flowers which were there present in the photograph which we elect as a data set.

scholarly journals CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION: CREATIVITY AND POLITENESS STRATEGIES ACROSS CULTURES. A COMPARISON OF LITHUANIAN AND AMERICAN CULTURES

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-178
Author(s):  
Viktorija Jakučionytė
Keyword(s):  
Speech Acts ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
American English ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Politeness Strategies ◽  
Private And Public

The purpose of this study was to identify creative reactions and politeness schemes in two languages in cross-cultural communication – American English and Lithuanian – and then compare the means of expressing politeness strategies and creative reactions in the two mentioned languages. The method used in the study is a survey, evaluated by both qualitative and quantitative methods. The research illustrated that the two mentioned cultures do indeed express creative reactions as well as use the speech acts of gratitude and apology. It also showed that American female and American male groups tend to choose more polite and creative reactions, while Lithuanian female and Lithuanian male groups tend to use less polite and creative reactions more often. Americans (both genders) do not imply the feeling of gratitude or apology, they say it directly. The Lithuanians (both genders) expressed gratitude or apology in everyday situations not as often and not as directly. In other words, the Lithuanian culture tends to use positive politeness; and vice versa, the American culture tends to use negative politeness. Besides that, the research revealed that gender plays a significant role in the answers of the survey respondents. The female Americans and female Lithuanians seem to be more polite and express more creative reactions than their male counterparts. It was also revealed that the respondents of American nationality express gratitude or apology in a more polite and creative way and use more speech acts of gratitude or apology in both private and public spheres than the group of Lithuanian respondents.

Misunderstanding in cross-cultural communication

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen FitzGerald
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Workplace Training ◽  
Spoken Discourse ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Immigrant Professionals

This paper examines the spoken discourse of immigrant professionals problem solving in small groups in order to see how different cultural values both influence, and are reflected in, the way a problem is defined and solutions proposed. It also provides evidence that these values are one of the factors that contribute to miscommunication in this type of communication. Three types of miscommunication are identified: misinterpretation of the message because a cultural filter distorts the message; incomplete comprehension because the underlying values are not explicated and the hearers remain unaware of the full implications of the message; and comprehension but misunderstanding and dissonance because the values of the hearers are at variance with the reality of the message. The extent to which the views of individuals conformed to the value systems general ascribed to their cultural background is discussed and instances of individual variance noted. Finally, the implications for teaching and workplace training suggested by these findings are discussed.

Rethinking classification of zoophilia

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. s851-s851
Author(s):  
D. Sendler ◽  
M. Lew-Starowicz
Keyword(s):  
Classification System ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Sexual Sadism ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Distress Level ◽  
Human Partner ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Competing Interest

IntroductionIn 2011, Anil Aggrawal proposed ten-point classification system of zoophilia, based on forensic literature review.Objectives(1) Allow for conceptualization and improved management of zoophilic patients in clinical practice or forensic examinations, (2) describe identity of modern-day zoophiles, including demographics and psycho-social profile, and (3) determine normative and pathologic traits and behaviours.MethodsA qualitative observational study of user activity (n = 958) on discussion forums, combined with brief demographic survey. Data were analyzed according to principles of grounded theory. Surveys of own design (demographic, discreet + open ended questions) were answered by 350 participants. Presented data show aggregate conclusions from mixed methods qualitative and quantitative analysis.ResultsProposed classification system categorizes zoos as either classic, sexual, romantic, or platonic. Relationship goals of classic and romantic zoos are reminiscent of those typical of human partnership, differentiated by the commitment and psychological distress level (romantic zoos, affectionate relationship goals outweigh sexual pursuit; classic zoos, romantic and sexual urges cause distress rather than pleasure). Sexual zoos show high prevalence of hypersexuality traits. Platonic zoos are typically confused about the roots of their sexuality. Contrary to common perceptions, prevalence of sexual sadism is extremely low (<1% in our study). Sociopathic traits determine propensity for animal cruelty, which is not synonymous with typical zoophilia. Half of respondents were in committed relationship with human partner, whom they frequently attempted to “convert” into practicing zoophile.ConclusionsWe can categorize zoophiles into four sub-types. Emotional attachment and sexual urges play equal role in bonding with animal partner.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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