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MacDonald, Malcolm N. – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2019
This paper will carry out a theoretical and empirical inquiry into the ways in which the 'discourse of thirdness' is constituted within the field of intercultural studies. It will firstly critically review the autochthonous conceptualisations of the Third Space and other metaphors of 'thirdness' in language education. It will then use corpus…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Intercultural Communication, Computational Linguistics, Journal Articles
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O'Regan, John P.; MacDonald, Malcolm N. – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2007
The premise of much intercultural communication pedagogy and research is to educate people from different cultures towards open and transformative positions of mutual understanding and respect. This discourse in the instance of its articulation realises and sustains Intercultural Communication epistemologically--as an academic field of social…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Teaching Methods, Epistemology, Political Influences
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MacDonald, Malcolm N.; Badger, Richard; Dasli, Maria – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2006
In philosophy, authenticity has been used with two meanings: one entails the notion of correspondence; the other entails the notion of genesis (Cooper, 1983: 15). As in certain branches of philosophy, language teaching has perhaps clung too long to the first of these notions of authenticity at the expense of the other. This paper reviews four key…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Applied Linguistics, Second Language Instruction, Philosophy