Description
The field of intercultural communication research has now been characterised by a series of calls for epistemological diversity in its approaches to theorising the relationships between language, cultures and the very agents who embody such constructs through their own interactions and perspectives with reality (e.g., R’boul, 2022). However, this is with the caution of not supporting the mis-appropriation of onto-epistemic discourses (e.g., Barnawi, 2024). In this critically-oriented backdrop, this conceptual paper responds to the challenges surrounding some forms of post-positivist research within intercultural communication (Holliday & MacDonald, 2020). Specifically, we bring together Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of capital and how this has been integrated within ecological approaches to language learning (Consoli, 2022) with Henri Lefebvre’s (2014) notion of everyday life. In doing so, we problematise the ways in which forces of power mediate intersubjectivities about language and culture within the everyday. In keeping with Block (2017), we outline an approach for intercultural communication research which views the onto-epistemic as constantly shifting and metamorphosing in relation to people, structures, and systems. As such, our approach focuses on moving beyond epistemological and ontological dissonances in intercultural communication research to accommodate more diversity.| Period | 7 Sept 2024 |
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| Event title | Annual meeting of the British Association of Applied Linguistics |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Edinburgh, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |