Expectations and Personal Cultural Knowledge: Redefining Asian Scholars' Research Efforts

Chang, Hui‐Ching; Holt, Richard

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“…For example, Ng, Loong, He, Liu, and Weatherall (2000) contend that collectivism leads to ''self-censoring, and even compromised talk, for the sake of maintaining social harmony, respecting the existing status hierarchy, and so forth'' (p. 27). Thus, Asian Pacific communication studies are often cast in terms of the cultural other, an "otherness" that becomes an appropriate target of analysis when scholars venture outside American boundaries (Chang & Holt, 2010).…”

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Commonalities as an alternative approach to analyzing Asian Pacific communication

Chang

Cui

2015

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Commonalities as an alternative approach to analyzing Asian Pacific communication

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Cui

2015

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“…The representation of Asia in qualitative studies—be it the people or context—has been critiqued for the tendency of conveniently viewing it as a monolithic cultural group or locality constructed from essentialist attributes (e.g., Chang and Holt, 2010; Miike, 2006; You, 2019). The telling of narratives is also in itself challenging, not only because narratives are told by researchers who do not belong to the narrative context, but these narratives have been shaped to fit into story-telling structures sanctioned by “imperial scholarship” (Iftikar and Museus, 2018).…”

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Interpretive frameworks for narrative inquiry studies of English language teaching in Asia: Displacing the research context?

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Sairattanain

2022

Power and Education

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Interpretive frameworks may be helpful to understand narratives, yet they also risk displacing unique information of the research context. In this paper, we argue that such is the case in narrative inquiry studies of English language teaching set in the Asian context, perhaps due to the pressure to use familiar interpretive frameworks that are sanctioned by scholars. Through meta-ethnography, we examined recent narrative inquiry studies set in Asia. It was observed that the research findings do not offer any critical insights about the context of the study; instead, they add to the prevalence of broad constructs of English language education, such as the components of identity. For future narrative inquiry research, we recommend researchers to consider utilizing local meanings pertinent to the study context as an analytical lens, as a means to Asianize the field.

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Embracing cultural similarities and bridging differences in supportive communication

Feng

2015

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This paper critically reviews cultural similarities and differences between European Americans and Asians or Asian Americans found in contemporary supportive communication research. In addition to research primarily examining and reporting cultural differences of social support between European Americans and Asians or Asian Americans, recent research in culture and social support has been focusing on examining both cultural similarities and differences. Broad similarities across cultures have been found regarding evaluations of support provision goals, messages, behaviors, ratings of support provision beliefs, attitudes, and intentions, likelihood of seeking support and so forth. These findings therefore provide us an alternative lens to examine supportive communication across cultures: rather than highlighting cultural differences, we instead want to attend to both cultural similarities and differences. Theoretically, this transition allows us to have a comprehensive understanding about support processes across cultures. Practically, this change of focus provides bridging opportunities and helps enhance understanding between European Americans and Asians or Asian Americans during supportive interactions.

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Expectations and Personal Cultural Knowledge: Redefining Asian Scholars' Research Efforts

Cited by 5 publications

References 40 publications

Commonalities as an alternative approach to analyzing Asian Pacific communication

Commonalities as an alternative approach to analyzing Asian Pacific communication

Interpretive frameworks for narrative inquiry studies of English language teaching in Asia: Displacing the research context?

Embracing cultural similarities and bridging differences in supportive communication

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