Revisiting Relevant Approaches for the Study of Language and Intercultural Communication

Zhu Yunxia

doi:10.36923/jicc.v3i2.390

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Zhu Yunxia ⁽¹⁾

(1) School of Communication Business,Unitec, New Zealand , New Zealand

https://doi.org/10.36923/jicc.v3i2.390

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Vol. 3 No. 2 (2003)

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January 12, 2002

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March 10, 2001

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Chinese written discourse, rhetorical structures, cross-cultural pragmatics, genre studie

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This paper revisits relevant approaches used for the study of language and intercultural communication, in particular, in the area of comparing English and Chinese discourse structures. Kaplan's (1966) work has a great impact on the various approaches in this area such as Kirkpatrick (1991; 1993) and Zhu (1997). This paper specifically investigates the approaches focusing on Kaplan's proposal on the circularity and linearity of rhetorical structures. It has been found that these approaches were largely based on rhetorical rules such as pianzheng fuju or the subordinate-main structure ( Kirkpatrick 1991; 1993). This paper then argues that the intercultural and language study should incorporate cross-cultural pragmatics and genre study in order to offer more holistic principles relating to cultural values, politeness, and communicative intent.

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Zhu Yunxia

School of Communication Business,Unitec, New Zealand

zyunxia@unitec.ac.nz (Primary Contact)

Author Biography

Zhu Yunxia, School of Communication Business,Unitec, New Zealand

Dr Zhu Yunxia is an Associate Professor at UNITEC Auckland, New Zealand. Her current research centers on intercultural communication, cross cultural management, professional discourse studies, pedagogy in communication and business language teaching. She has presented papers at international conferences, and published papers in international journals (such as Journal of Business Communication, Journal of Business Quarterly, Discourse Studies, Text, Document Design, Asian Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, Journal of Organisational Learning and Development and ALAA). Her book on Chinese business communication was published by Nova Science Publishers Inc., New York.

Yunxia, Z. (2001). Revisiting Relevant Approaches for the Study of Language and Intercultural Communication. Journal of Intercultural Communication, 3(2), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.36923/jicc.v3i2.390

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