A Culture Building Approach to Intercultural Communication: Japanese Women in International Wives' Groups

Culture building does not occur in all intercultural communication situations. The Japanese women's accounts show that what they enjoyed, appreciated, and found special about the groups was the culture building talk, and that it was culture building intercultural communication that they wished to experience more. However, for the Japanese women, culture building and intercultural communication were intertwined with the problematics of speaking English, making the experience ambivalent and multifaceted.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Speech Communication

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Date dc:date

10000-01-01

Author dc:creator

• Uchida, Aki

Contributors dc:contributor

• Kramarae, Cheris

• Women's Studies

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9717341

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87551