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Kim, Kyung Hye and Spencer-Oatey, Helen (2021) Metapragmatic comments on relating across cultures : Korean students’ uncertainties over relating to UK academics. Pragmatics, 31 (2). pp. 198-224. doi:10.1075/prag.20004.kim ISSN 1018-2101.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.20004.kim
Abstract
This paper analyses postings made by student applicants on Korean online communities about how best to handle interactions with potential future PhD supervisors at UK universities. The questions they posed reveal the lack of relevant contextual information they experienced, especially around the rights and obligations of supervisors. This paper thus analyses students’ metapragmatic comments and argues for greater attention to be paid within interpersonal and intercultural pragmatics to interactional goals and conceptions of role relations, especially the rights and obligations associated with them. The analysis has revealed that background information on role relations is of great importance for relational management and communication planning in high stakes intercultural interaction. This suggests that potential cultural variation in the perceived rights and obligations associated with a given role (in this case, PhD supervisor) and their implications for assessments of role relations are of central concern.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Pragmatics, Language and languages -- Philosophy, Metalanguage, Cultural relations, Cultural relations -- Korea, Education, Higher -- Great Britain, Foreign study -- Great Britain, Students, Foreign -- Great Britain, Korean students -- Great Britain, Korean students -- Communication | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Pragmatics | ||||||||||
Publisher: | International Pragmatics Association | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 1018-2101 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | April 2021 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | 31 | ||||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 198-224 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1075/prag.20004.kim | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
Copyright Holders: | International Pragmatics Association | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 September 2022 | ||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 September 2022 | ||||||||||
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