English as a lingua franca (ELF) research highlights the complexity and fluidity of culture in intercultural communication through English. ELF users draw on, construct, and move between global, national, and local orientations towards cultural characterisations. Thus, the relationship between language and culture is best approached as situated and emergent. However, this has chal­ lenged previ...

Objectives To determine how to enhance integration of minority students in health education, and thereby improve intercultural communication skills and cultural sensitivity in a sample of health teacher students in Norway. Methods After a group-work intervention and for a period of six months afterwards we followed an "action research" approach and observed 47 health teachers-in-training in t...

BACKGROUND Up to one half of the population in Africa, Asia and Latin America has little access to high-quality biomedical services and relies on traditional health systems. Medical pluralism is thus in many developing countries the rule rather than the exception, which is why the World Health Organization is calling for intercultural partnerships to improve health care in these regions. They a...

INTRODUCTION The substantial gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians has been slow to improve, despite increased dedicated funding. Partnerships between Australian Indigenous and mainstream Western biomedical organisations are recognised as crucial to improved Indigenous health outcomes. However, these partnerships often experience challenges, particularly in th...

This paper presents a model for using an interrelated set of Web 2.0 applications for making intercultural learning a social cognitive process that constitutes a cycle of personal and social knowledge-building. Relationships between individual minds of different socio-cultural backgrounds are established through internet based, individual, pair and group work. Our model is based on the trialogi...

Films depict the world and convey perspectives on it. The same can be said of the extensively well distributed James Bond film series which has been critically acclaimed and successful for the last several decades from “Dr. No” (1962) to “Spectre” (2015). In 2012, it celebrated its 50 anniversary and can be considered an especially influential cultural medium and a transmitter of cultural pract...

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...

INTRODUCTION To date, technical communication has been strongly related to written forms of communication. However, articles in past issues of Technical communication have revealed that oral modes of communicating technological, scientific, and business information (including technical presentations and business negotiations) have increasingly become an essential part of professional technical ...

This paper draws upon the importance of titles in intercultural communication starting from the results of an experiment in the field of psychology aimed at measuring the mnemonic valué of titles as well as the expectations and evaluations they entail or the influential power they exert on receivers. Assuming that translation is a form of communication and adopting an eclectic approach based on...