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Symbolic power and conversational inequalities in intercultural encounters| old_uid | 12033 |
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| title | Symbolic power and conversational inequalities in intercultural encounters |
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| start_date | 2016/09/12 |
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| schedule | 17h-18h30 |
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| online | no |
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| summary | By using a post-structuralist discourse approach, we eschew the tendency in intercultural communication studies to essentialize culture and to reduce it to structural, national characteristics. Instead we strive to underscore the subjectivity of meaning-making practices, their relationality and their historical contingency. We explore not only how cultural differences and similarities are discursively constructed in interactions, but how their construction, reproduction and contestation are part of a larger symbolic power game in which we are all imbricated.
We discuss the general role that symbolic power plays in intercultural communication research and practice. The three questions are :
How is symbolic power defined and constituted in intercultural communication ?
How does power inequality impact the way language is used and vice versa ?
What is the most appropriate research approach to studying the workings of power in intercultural communication ? |
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| responsibles | Détrie, Pélissier |
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