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Intercultural communication

Intercultural Communication on Chinese TV

The recent Intercultural Communication Conference at Zhongnan University of Law and Economics was covered by Wuhan TV's evening news. You can either watch the full show on the WHTV website or the…
Intercultural communication

旅游中的东方主义

Chinese version of my recent blog post about orientalism and tourism 东方主义,这种西方文化中对东方文化及人文的旧式及带有偏见的理解,可谓是由来已久、根深蒂固。一日偶读澳大利亚旅游杂志《出发和到达》中一篇题为“爱情游戏,中国风”的文章,我对东方主义在当今世界的影响力,尤其是在旅游文本中的呈现,感触尤为深刻。 乍看标题“爱情游戏,中国风”,觉得有趣而有些费解:什么样的“爱情游戏”可以称为“中国风”呢?接下来的副标题解释道:“远离现代社会的纷扰,中国纳西族在罕见的母系社会中独享亘古不变的清静”。文中描绘的中国西南边陲的云南白沙古镇是纳西族的故乡之一。而作者描绘的方式却使得白沙镇成为代表整个中国的一个影像:亘古不变,陷入一个远离现代文明的永恒世界。 (more…)
Language in education

Does a language have to be European to be ‘modern’?

Top 10 languages other than English spoken in England and Wales, 2011 (Source: ONS) Modern languages are not merely European languages. Obvious as this may seem, it needs restating as…
Language learning
Saudi women, polygamy and ESL
Intercultural communication
What did Angela Merkel really say?
Multilingual families
Hanging on to German in the USA
Language learning
Gaining a Green Thumb for Grassroots Language Activism
Language at work
Critical Skills for Life and Work
Language and migration
Scholarly sisterhood: Collaboration is our academic superpower