An Exploratory Cross-Cultural Research Questionnaire : How Cultural Schemata May Disrupt Cross-Cultural Communication Between Japanese and English Speaker

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• This research is the result of an exploratory cross-cultural questionnaire that aims to show how the background knowledge we use to communicate exists as dynamic sets of cultural schema that can disrupt the communication process. The goal of the research is to highlight how our culture based knowledge (schemata) is largely an unconscious psychological concept that needs to be raised to the conscious level via intercultural education and training so that misunderstandings and ethnocentric viewpoints can be addressed and thereby minimized for successful cross-cultural communication. The cross-cultural questionnaire was administered to native Japanese and English speakers and explored eight theme words, such as"competition" , "business contract" and "negotiation", to see how these two groups of speakers valued them. In addition to the eight theme words, questionnaire participants were asked to fill in three crosscultural conversations to see how they may apply these concepts in a particular context. Associative group methodology was used to analyze the questionnaire theme words with the aid of several Japanese translators. Differences were found in the way Japanese and English speakers applied their cultural schema that have the potential for cross-cultural conflict

• 2010-03-16

著者

• Ryan Stephen

  山形大学人文学部

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