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20164月06

Symbolic power and conversational inequality in intercultural communication

論壇、工作坊與研討會

  • 日期2016年4月6日
  • 時間6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
  • 地點Lecture Theatre 2 (KT182), THEi Building (Kowloon Tong Campus)

(暫只提供英文版本)

 

 

Symbolic power and conversational inequality in intercultural communication

Professor ZHU Hua 

 

Date:    6th April 2016 (Wednesday)

Time:    6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Venue:  Lecture Theatre 2 (KT182), THEi Building (Kowloon Tong Campus)

Address: 30 Renfrew Road, KowloonTong, Hong Kong

 

Abstract

 

Globalisation has heightened the significance of intercultural communication in everyday life as well as in higher education.  There is a growing awareness of intercultural differences in the public discourse and research literature about ‘ways of doing things’  (e.g. learning and teaching styles)  and an increasing emphasis on intercultural communication skills and associated issues (e.g. global citizenship, diversity) in the higher education curriculum in many parts of the world. In this seminar, Prof ZHU Hua from Birkbeck College, University of London will offer insights on the importance of intercultural communication and examine how symbolic competence and power are claimed, assigned and resisted through nationality and ethnicity talk (NET). 

 

Biography

 

Professor ZHU Hua is Professor in Applied Linguistics and Communication and Head of Department in Department of Applied Linguistics and Communication at Birkbeck College, University of London.  Her research interests are intercultural communication, pragmatics, multilingualism and child development.  She has published extensively in journals such as Journal of PragmaticsThe Modern Language JournalApplied LinguisticsMultilingua, Language and Intercultural CommunicationJournal of Multilingual and Multicultural DevelopmentAILA ReviewJournal of Asia-Pacific CommunicationJournal of Child LanguageInternal Journal of Bilingualism, and Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

 

All are welcome

 

For enquiries, please contact Ms Janice LEUNG at janicel@vtc.edu.hk.

 

We are grateful to the Sino-British Fellowship Trust for funding the seminars.

 

Symbolic power and conversational inequality in intercultural communication