Relational management in professional intercultural interaction : Chinese officials' encounters with American and British professionals
Professional intercultural communication is of growing importance in todayâs globalising world. This study analyses the dynamics of relating that occurred between Chinese officials and American officials and other professionals during a three-week delegation visit to the USA. Drawing on concepts and frameworks in pragmatics, sociolinguistics, cross-cultural psychology, communication studies and translation studies, it takes a data-driven approach to explore Chinese officialsâ professional interaction with American/British professionals. This kind of interaction, which involved government officials, has rarely been studied before. During the delegation visit, over twenty authentic professional intercultural events including formal meetings and banquets were recorded in six major cities in the USA. Relational issues and the interactantsâ interpretations of these issues from both sides were extracted and examined from twenty-hour-long video recordings and two-hour-long audio recordings of official interaction, fifteen-thousand-word notes of the delegationâs evening meetings where they reflected on the dayâs events, forty-one individual post-event and post-trip interviews with the Chinese and fourteen
Wang, Jiayi
HF Commerce ; P Philology. Linguistics
Relational management in professional intercultural interaction : Chinese officials' encounters with American and British professionals. Professional intercultural communication is of growing importance in todayâs globalising world. This study analyses the dynamics of relating that occurred between Chinese officials and American officials and other professionals during a three-week delegation visit to the USA. Drawing on concepts and frameworks in pragmatics, sociolinguistics, cross-cultural psychology, communication studies and translation studies, it takes a data-driven approach to explore Chinese officialsâ professional interaction with American/British professionals. This kind of interaction, which involved government officials, has rarely been studied before. During the delegation visit, over twenty authentic professional intercultural events including formal meetings and banquets were recorded in six major cities in the USA. Relational issues and the interactantsâ interpretations of these issues from both sides were extracted and examined from twenty-hour-long video recordings and two-hour-long audio recordings of official interaction, fifteen-thousand-word notes of the delegationâs evening meetings where they reflected on the dayâs events, forty-one individual post-event and post-trip interviews with the Chinese and fourteen
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