'I Already Have a Culture.' Negotiating Competing Grand and Personal Narratives in Interview Conversations with New Study Abroad Arrivals

Autor/inn/en	Amadasi, Sara; Holliday, Adrian
Titel	'I Already Have a Culture.' Negotiating Competing Grand and Personal Narratives in Interview Conversations with New Study Abroad Arrivals
Quelle	In: Language and Intercultural Communication, 18 (2018) 2, S.241-256 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1470-8477
DOI	10.1080/14708477.2017.1357727
Schlagwörter	Interviews; Study Abroad; Personal Narratives; Graduate Students; Student Attitudes; Self Concept; Cultural Background; Ideology; Acculturation; Personal Autonomy; Intercultural Communication; Cultural Awareness; Qualitative Research; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Studies abroad; Auslandsstudium; Erlebniserzählung; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Schülerverhalten; Selbstkonzept; Ideologie; Akkulturation; Individuelle Autonomie; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Qualitative Forschung; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	In an interview with a postgraduate student about her intercultural experience of recently arriving for study abroad, it was found that the two researchers and the student were engaged in a mutual exploration of cultural identity. The interview events became conversational and took the form of small culture formation on the go in which each participant employed diverse narratives to project, make sense of and negotiate expression of cultural identity. The student shifted between personal narratives drawn from her particular cultural trajectories and splintered from grand narratives of nation and global positioning, between non-essentialist threads and essentialist blocks. The researchers learned from her and intervened to facilitate shifts to non-essentialist threads, drawing on narratives from their own personal cultural trajectories, but sometimes also falling into essentialist blocks splintered from grand narratives. The roles of ideology and competing essentialist and non-essentialist discourses of culture were implicit in these negotiations, as were the personal agency of the student as she responded to the constraining conflicts, structures and hierarchies encountered through the events she spoke about. Rather than providing a picture of intercultural assimilation and integration, interculturality is revealed as a hesitant and searching negotiation, sometimes of vulnerability, wrong-footedness and occasional assault on identity. (As Provided).
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