谈大学英语口语课程中跨文化交际能力的培养

跨文化交际能力是语言表达能力的重要组成部分。大学英语口语课程对于学生跨文化交际能力的培养还不够重视。本文从大学英语口语课堂上出现的交际失误入手，分析增强学生跨文化意识的重要性和学生的跨文化交际能力滞后的原因，并且提出了促进学生跨文化交际能力的教学方案。     

福建省主要经济联系方向研究

区际联系是区域地理学重要的研究内容之一．通过城市间经济联系的测算可以明确城市的主要联系方向．这将有利于城市和区域经济的空间组织、城市实体的空间发展方向确定、交通运输的合理组织．文章引入区域间相互作用的引力模型,以福建省作为研究对象,测算出城市间的经济联系强度,并用对应的航空、公路和铁路客运联系资料进行验证,得出福建省内部的主要联系方向以及省际的主要联系方向,为福建省内部的空间整合和外部的空间扩展提供重要的决策参考．     

从互文性角度看跨文化翻译

作为沟通两种不同语言文化的桥梁,翻译在跨文化交际中起着不可或缺的重要作用。从互文性角度来看,翻译可以说是在语言、文本、文化和思维等众多层面展开的一项具有互文性质的语言转换活动。在跨文化翻译活动中,译者必须将互文性纳入考虑范围,仔细揣摩隐藏在语言结构背后的语言和文化特征,从文本的体裁、话语和语篇出发,采用移植、补偿或省略等翻译手法,处理跨文化翻译过程中的互文指涉。     

Male primary teachers’ fear and uncertainty surrounding physical contact

Young children often look to their teachers for affection and acceptance, particularly if they are sick or upset. However, many male primary teachers do not feel comfortable with this aspect of their role. Consequently, many men choose not to make physical contact with their students in order to protect themselves from accusations of inappropriate behaviour. Using a mixed methodology of survey and interviews, this research provides an in-depth analysis of the fear and uncertainty male primary teachers experience in relation to physical contact, and the key factors that contribute to its difficulty.     

Can ability emotional intelligence help explain intercultural effectiveness? Incremental validity and mediation effects of emotional vocabulary in predicting intercultural judgment

A review of the literature reveals that previous studies on the role of emotional intelligence (EI) in predicting intercultural effectiveness have focused solely on trait EI, i.e., self-reported emotional efficacy, and on emotion recognition, disregarding the core components of ability EI, particularly its understanding emotions branch. Considering this gap and arguing for the relevance of emotion understanding in intercultural communication, the present study examined whether emotional vocabulary (EV), a marker of the ability to understand emotions, predicts intercultural problem solving above verbal intelligence and personality, and whether it (partially) mediates their effects on the criterion. Participants were 336 university students from Serbia, assessed on EV, verbal intelligence, the Big Five, and intercultural judgment and decision making (CJDM). A hierarchical regression analysis found verbal intelligence, Openness, and Extraversion (Step 1), and EV (Step 2) to significantly predict CJDM, with EV incrementally explaining 2% of criterion variance. A path analysis yielded excellent fit indices for a model postulating EV as a partial mediator of the effects of verbal intelligence and Openness on CJDM. The study thus provides first evidence of the specific contribution of emotion understanding to solving intercultural communication problems, the implications of which for both EI and intercultural research are discussed.     

Communicating love: Comparisons between American and East Asian university students

This study examined cultural differences in communicating love among 143 young adults from the US and East Asian countries of China, Japan, and South Korea. Through inductive analyses we examined similarities and differences in the activities and beliefs Americans and East Asians have about love in friendship and marriage, as well as the activities and ways in which love is expressed. Americans and East Asians reported that caring, trust, respect, and honesty were all important beliefs about love in friendship, and trust was an important belief about love in marriage. Love in marriage was seen as important and unconditional for Americans, while East Asians were more likely to report caring as an important belief. Sports, preparing food, and shopping were activities associated with expressing love for Americans, while talking and preparing food constituted activities for expressing love for East Asians. Finally, both US and East Asian students expressed love to a friend through acts of support, open discussion, and the sharing of common experiences, while they expressed love to a spouse through physical intimacy, acts of support, and expressions of love such as “I love you” and “I miss you.”     

高度重视跨文化交际对语言学习者的重要性

本文论述了跨文化交际的意义与跨文化交际中存在的问题，提出在外语学习中应重视对文化交际内容与方法的学习。在此基础上论述了几点关于跨文化交际中出现的文化差异和学习方法及策略，强调在意识上对跨文化交际的教学要有所认识，有所了解。以期学习者更好地掌握跨文化交际的方法以及合理地解决跨文化交际中存在的问题。     

Antecedents and mediating role of IT service climate in IT service quality: A mixed methods study

Developing a strong and positive information technology (IT) service climate is important to ensure high-quality IT services. The influence of job resources and personal resources on the IT service climate and the mediating effect of the IT service climate on IT service quality were explored in this study qualitatively and quantitatively. Among the various job resource factors, we found that training, reward, and information system (IS) support can improve the IT service climate. Coworker support shows a non-significant effect on IT service climate. Among the personal resource factors, self-efficacy and hope have significantly positive effects on the IT service climate. Optimism and resilience do not appear to significantly affect the IT service climate. Our results confirm that the IT service climate is an important mediator in enabling certain antecedents to properly impact IT service quality. The IT service climate was found to fully mediate the effects of training, reward, IS support, and hope while partially mediating the effect of self-efficacy. The effect of the IT service climate on IT service quality is also strengthened by a high customer contact frequency. The results presented here may provide scholars and practitioners with a comprehensive, workable understanding of the IT service climate.     

Intercultural Communication Competence Scale: Invariance and Construct Validation in Portugal

ABSTRACT

This article explores the psychometric validation of an Intercultural Communication Competence (ICC) scale. Three studies were performed: (1) psychometric evidence pertaining to the scale’s reliability and factor structure and an analysis of the measurement invariance; (2) assessment of convergent and predictive validity; and (3) analyzes the association between ICC and affective and cognitive dimensions of cultural empathy. A three-factor model with eight items yielded the best fit to the data. The scale showed non-invariance between genders, but proved to be a predictor of intercultural contact. Convergent validity were demonstrated.     

Communicated Stereotypes,Attitudes, and Intended Accommodation of Appalachians

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The study illuminates intergroup cognitions and intended communication towards Appalachians. American MTurk workers’ (N = 252) open-ended responses illuminated stereotype content of “backwards,” “uneducated,” “poor,” “mountain dwelling,” “self-reliant,” “kind,” and “prejudiced,” corroborating non-Appalachians’ closed-ended responses that Appalachians are deemed moderately competent and warm. The previous contact with an Appalachian yielded no significant differences in “attitudes towards Appalachians” scores. Intended (non)accommodations towards Appalachians commonly included “no adjustments,” with a variant array of overaccommodations (e.g. talking slower) and avoidance that either invoked or enforced stereotypes. Results may inform future testing and enhancement of intergroup and interpersonal communication with and about Appalachians.