Adrian Holliday
Biographic Data
| ID | 137576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrian Holliday |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrian |
| FAMILY NAME | Holliday |
| SIGNATURE | HOLLIDAY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Canterbury Christ Church University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2914-6746 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 309 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Working with ChatGPT: Engaging with the Real World and Our Own Academic Practice
When using ChatGPT to write an ethnographic description of an intercultural event or to make a picture of a distant location, it by default employs the dominant discourse in intercultural communication of positivist, exoticist, Orientalist Othering. It also consciously uses modes of description which give the false impression that it has direct experience of social settings. However, when it is challenged, it displays impressively critical unders…
Validity in Qualitative Research
The validity of qualitative research in applied linguistics, as in other disciplinary areas, depends on the embracing and managing, rather than the denying of subjectivity. Implicit in this is the full recognition that the researcher is an implicated interactant in all aspects of the research process to the extent that their presence cannot be detached from the generation of data and how it is interpreted. This postmodern realization enables an o…
The varicultural, translanguaging and deCentring
Anorexia of ageing is associated with elevated fasted and lower post-prandial ghrelin, independent of ghrelin O-acyltransferase
The role of ghrelin metabolism in anorexia of ageing is unclear. The aim of this study was to determine acyl-ghrelin, total ghrelin, and ghrelin O-acyltransferase concentrations when fasted and in responses to feeding in older adults exhibiting anorexia of ageing. Twenty-five older adults (OA; 15f, 74 ± 7 years, 24.5 kg m−2) and twelve younger adults (YA; 6f, 21 ± 2 years, 24.4 kg m−2) provided a fasted measure of subjective appetite and fasted b…
Appetite, food intake, and gut hormone responses to glycomacropeptide protein ingestion in older adults: A feasibility, acceptability, and pilot study
Augmented gut hormone response to feeding in older adults exhibiting low appetite
The role of nutrient sensing dysregulation in anorexia of ageing: The little we know and the much we don't
The age-related decline in appetite and food intake - termed "anorexia of ageing" - is implicated in undernutrition in later life and hence provides a public health challenge for our ageing population. Eating behaviour is controlled, in part, by homeostatic mechanisms which sense nutrient status and provide feedback to appetite control regions of the brain. Such feedback signals, propagated by episodic gut hormones, are dysregulated in some older…
Searching for a third-space methodology to contest essentialist large-culture blocks
Here I present the third space as a methodology for contesting the essentialist large-culture distortion and colonising of both researching and engaging with the intercultural. This distortion is deep in the structure of intercultural studies and the everyday narratives that surround us as a major source of prejudice and false certainty. A third-space methodology therefore requires constant and uncomfortable deCentred questioning of the thinking-…
Contesting Grand Narratives of the Intercultural
Contesting Grand Narratives of the Intercultural uses an autoethnographic account of the author's experience of living in Iran in the 1970s to demonstrate the constant struggle to prevent the intercultural from being dominated by essentialist grand narratives that falsely define us within separate, bounded national or civilisational cultures. This book provides critical insight that: DeCentres how we encounter and research the intercultural by me…
The Yin-Yang Relationship Between Essentialist and Non-essentialist Discourses Related to the Participation of Children of Migrants, and Its Implication for How to Research
There is a complex relationship between the essentialist and non-essentialist discourses that respectively fail to and succeed in recognising the potential for participation which the children of migrants bring with them into new cultural settings. These competing discourses curl around each other within the structures of educational settings and within all the people involved, including the children themselves. A yin-yang framework helps us to s…
The effects of an acute resistance exercise bout on appetite and energy intake in healthy older adults
Cultural threads in three primary schools: Introducing a critical cosmopolitan frame
This paper explores headteachers’ and teachers’ perceptions of foreign languages(FL) and cultural learning in three primary schools in areas of disadvantage in England. Drawing upon a new theoretical frame for primary languages, Critical Cosmopolitanism ( Delanty, 2006 ; Beck and Sznaider, 2006 ) and The Grammar of Culture ( Holliday, 2018 ), we argue that the grand narrative of a target language inhabited by a target culture is outdated and appr…
Researching the Intercultural: Intersubjectivity and the Problem with Postpositivism
In intercultural communication studies, the positivist preoccupation with objectivist, essentialist, solid large cultures has been replaced by a postmodern recognition that the intercultural is liquid and ideologically constructed. However, a postpositivist resistance to this paradigm change, while recognizing the dangers of essentialism, continues to be objectivist and fails to address the intersubjective nature of the ideological construction o…
Understanding Intercultural Communication: Negotiating a Grammar of Culture
Points-based physical activity: A novel approach to facilitate changes in body composition in inactive women with overweight and obesity
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Block and thread intercultural narratives and positioning: Conversations with newly arrived postgraduate students
This paper considers how, in the process of positioning that is implicit in every interaction, all of us employ multiple and often competing narratives when we talk about cultural identity and our relationships with new cultural environments. In interviews with newly arrived postgraduate students about their experience of travelling to study abroad, the students employ competing block and thread narratives. Block narratives represent an essential…
I already have a culture.’ Negotiating competing grand and personal narratives in interview conversations with new study abroad arrivals
In an interview with a postgraduate student about her intercultural experience of recently arriving for study abroad, it was found that the two researchers and the student were engaged in a mutual exploration of cultural identity. The interview events became conversational and took the form of small culture formation on the go in which each participant employed diverse narratives to project, make sense of and negotiate expression of cultural iden…
PhD students, interculturality, reflexivity, community and internationalisation
Interviews with a small group of doctoral students at a British university indicate that the students feel that the programme provides an environment within which they develop interculturality through reflexive engagement with the PhD community and in some cases with the participants in their research. Significant here is that they are interpretivist, constructivist qualitative researchers within a larger university community of qualitative resea…
Doing & Writing Qualitative Research
Difference and awareness in cultural travel: Negotiating blocks and threads
Three university students studying abroad employ a combination of two modes of thinking and talking about cultural difference within a non-essentialist paradigm. At some times they focus on the cultural threads that they bring with them that enable the sharing of cultural experience, the crossing of cultural boundaries and the potential for engaging creatively and critically with new cultural domains. At other times, within a softer non-essential…
A novel tool to predict food intake: The Visual Meal Creator
The politics of ethics in diverse cultural settings: Colonising the centre stage
This paper interrogates the proposition that Western ethical practices in qualitative social research are incompatible with cultures outside the West. It is argued that incompatibility is less to do with national cultural differences than with paradigm differences in (1) perceptions of ‘culture’ and (2) qualitative research methodology. In both areas, there is a dominant positivist or postpositivist paradigm that encourages a false and polarised …
Validity in Qualitative Research
Qualitative research is a mainstream social science methodology which looks deeply at instances of social life which are difficult to see with more quantitative surveys and experiments.
Interrogating Researcher Participation in an Interview Study of Intercultural Contribution in the Workplace
As part of a study of intercultural contribution to workplace practices, an interview with Sara, a long-term newcomer to Britain, reveals how her non-Western background has made her a more effective manager despite a sustained feeling of being "foreign." However, much of what she says appears to be in response to considerable researcher suggestion that might invalidate the interview. Further analysis of the interview interaction is set within the…
Intercultural Communication and Ideology
Preface and methodology Chapter 1: Key Discussions Essentialism Neo-Essentialism Cosmopolitanism Imagined Certainty versus Acknowledged Complexity Chapter 2: Critical Cultural Awareness Models of Awareness A Reconstructed Narrative Critical Interpretivism A Decentred Reading Opening up Cultural Possibilities Chapter 3: Cultural Complexity Informants An Emergent Methodology Statements of Cultural Identity Competing Social Theories Complexity and P…
Small cultures
Researching the Intercultural: Intersubjectivity and the Problem with Postpositivism
In intercultural communication studies, the positivist preoccupation with objectivist, essentialist, solid large cultures has been replaced by a postmodern recognition that the intercultural is liquid and ideologically constructed. However, a postpositivist resistance to this paradigm change, while recognizing the dangers of essentialism, continues to be objectivist and fails to address the intersubjective nature of the ideological construction o…
Complexity in cultural identity
Despite their diverse national backgrounds, 28 interviewees speak similarly about the complexity of the cultural realities with which they live, and refuse to be pinned down to specific cultural types. While nation is of great importance, unless personally inspiring, it tends to be an external force which is in conflict with a wide variety of layered cultural realities which collect around personal life trajectories (including religion, family hi…
I already have a culture.’ Negotiating competing grand and personal narratives in interview conversations with new study abroad arrivals
In an interview with a postgraduate student about her intercultural experience of recently arriving for study abroad, it was found that the two researchers and the student were engaged in a mutual exploration of cultural identity. The interview events became conversational and took the form of small culture formation on the go in which each participant employed diverse narratives to project, make sense of and negotiate expression of cultural iden…
Difference and awareness in cultural travel: Negotiating blocks and threads
Three university students studying abroad employ a combination of two modes of thinking and talking about cultural difference within a non-essentialist paradigm. At some times they focus on the cultural threads that they bring with them that enable the sharing of cultural experience, the crossing of cultural boundaries and the potential for engaging creatively and critically with new cultural domains. At other times, within a softer non-essential…
Block and thread intercultural narratives and positioning: Conversations with newly arrived postgraduate students
This paper considers how, in the process of positioning that is implicit in every interaction, all of us employ multiple and often competing narratives when we talk about cultural identity and our relationships with new cultural environments. In interviews with newly arrived postgraduate students about their experience of travelling to study abroad, the students employ competing block and thread narratives. Block narratives represent an essential…
Standards of English and politics of inclusion
Standards of English for English language teacher education need to consider political as well as linguistic factors. Any definition of such standards on the basis of speakerhood would immediately fall into the trap of native-speakerist discrimination, which is intensified by unspoken associations with ‘ethnicity’. Who can be recognized as ‘native speaker’ or ‘near-native speaker’ is not simply a matter of language. Any definition of English stan…
Cultural descriptions as political cultural acts: An exploration
Interculturality may be something normal which everyone possesses to a degree. However, dominant neo-essentialist theories of culture give the impression that we are too different to easily cross-cultural boundaries. These theories support the development of academic disciplines and the need for professional certainty in intercultural training. There is an illusion of neutrality in established cultural descriptions such as collectivism and indivi…
The politics of ethics in diverse cultural settings: Colonising the centre stage
This paper interrogates the proposition that Western ethical practices in qualitative social research are incompatible with cultures outside the West. It is argued that incompatibility is less to do with national cultural differences than with paradigm differences in (1) perceptions of ‘culture’ and (2) qualitative research methodology. In both areas, there is a dominant positivist or postpositivist paradigm that encourages a false and polarised …
The Denial of Ideology in Perceptions of ‘Nonnative Speake’ Teachers
There is now general acceptance that the traditional ‘nonnative speaker’ label for teachers of English is problematic on sociolinguistic grounds and can be the source of employment discrimination. However, there continues to be disagreement regarding how far there is a prejudice against ‘nonnative speaker’ teachers which is deep and sustained and connected to an inherent racism within the fabric of Western society. This article argues that there …
The role of culture in English language education: Key challenges
English language education is in the process of change regarding teacher identity and the ownership of English. Cultural issues are implicated in this change. Critical cosmopolitan approaches in the social sciences are critiquing the primacy of national cultures which they consider a Western imposition on the emergent identities of the Periphery. Within this climate traditional native–non-native speaker categories become a Centre professional imp…
Anorexia of ageing is associated with elevated fasted and lower post-prandial ghrelin, independent of ghrelin O-acyltransferase
The role of ghrelin metabolism in anorexia of ageing is unclear. The aim of this study was to determine acyl-ghrelin, total ghrelin, and ghrelin O-acyltransferase concentrations when fasted and in responses to feeding in older adults exhibiting anorexia of ageing. Twenty-five older adults (OA; 15f, 74 ± 7 years, 24.5 kg m−2) and twelve younger adults (YA; 6f, 21 ± 2 years, 24.4 kg m−2) provided a fasted measure of subjective appetite and fasted b…
Searching for a third-space methodology to contest essentialist large-culture blocks
Here I present the third space as a methodology for contesting the essentialist large-culture distortion and colonising of both researching and engaging with the intercultural. This distortion is deep in the structure of intercultural studies and the everyday narratives that surround us as a major source of prejudice and false certainty. A third-space methodology therefore requires constant and uncomfortable deCentred questioning of the thinking-…
Intercompetence: Sources of conflict between local and expatriate ELT personnel
Issues of Validity in Progressive Paradigms of Qualitative Research
Elana Shohamy is a professor of language education in the School of Education at Tel Aviv University. Her most recent research and publications focus on various topics relevant to multilingual societies: the power of language tests, language policy, achievements of immigrants, language rights, and linguistic landscape. She is currently completing a book, The Hidden Agendas of Language Policy, and she co-edits the journal Language Policy
PhD students, interculturality, reflexivity, community and internationalisation
Interviews with a small group of doctoral students at a British university indicate that the students feel that the programme provides an environment within which they develop interculturality through reflexive engagement with the PhD community and in some cases with the participants in their research. Significant here is that they are interpretivist, constructivist qualitative researchers within a larger university community of qualitative resea…
A novel tool to predict food intake: The Visual Meal Creator
Interrogating Researcher Participation in an Interview Study of Intercultural Contribution in the Workplace
As part of a study of intercultural contribution to workplace practices, an interview with Sara, a long-term newcomer to Britain, reveals how her non-Western background has made her a more effective manager despite a sustained feeling of being "foreign." However, much of what she says appears to be in response to considerable researcher suggestion that might invalidate the interview. Further analysis of the interview interaction is set within the…
How Is It Possible to Write
(2005). How Is It Possible to Write? Journal of Language, Identity & Education: Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 304-309
The politics of participation in international English language education
The varicultural, translanguaging and deCentring
Augmented gut hormone response to feeding in older adults exhibiting low appetite
Project work as an evaluation device
Handing over the project: An exercise in restraint
Project work as an evaluation device
A role for soft systems methodology in ELT projects
From materials development to staff development: An informed change in direction in an EFL project
Tissue Rejection and Informal Orders in ELT Projects: Collecting the Right Information
Despite advances in curriculum design procedures, there is often failure within ELT projects to produce innovation which is in the long term meaningful and acceptable to the host institution. In other words, 'tissue rejection' takes place: the innovation is sooner or later rejected because it does not fit. In this paper I analyse the extent to which tissue rejection in projects can be attributed to informal orders within the host educational envi…
Intercompetence: Sources of conflict between local and expatriate ELT personnel
Student culture and English language education: An international perspective
Much of the emphasis in the literature on the influence of culture on English as a foreign or second language education has been on the profiling of regional traits. This is flawed in two respects. First, such profiling is far too generalised, given the complexity of the societies concerned. Secondly, it helps to perpetuate a learning group ideal to which these cultural influences are seen as constraints, and inhibits the development of both clas…
Handing over the project: An exercise in restraint
Developing a Sociological Imagination: Expanding Ethnography in International English Language Education
Whereas the importance of ethnography in analysing broad social realities in education is now established, in international English language education, ethnography has often been restricted to oral aspects of classroom behaviour This paper argues that the cultural complexity and variety in English language classrooms across the world also require ethnographies of non-verbal behaviour and of curriculum and curriculum project design and management …
The politics of participation in international English language education
Small cultures
Issues of Validity in Progressive Paradigms of Qualitative Research
Elana Shohamy is a professor of language education in the School of Education at Tel Aviv University. Her most recent research and publications focus on various topics relevant to multilingual societies: the power of language tests, language policy, achievements of immigrants, language rights, and linguistic landscape. She is currently completing a book, The Hidden Agendas of Language Policy, and she co-edits the journal Language Policy
How Is It Possible to Write
(2005). How Is It Possible to Write? Journal of Language, Identity & Education: Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 304-309
Native-speakerism
Native-speakerism is a pervasive ideology within ELT, characterized by the belief that ‘native-speaker’ teachers represent a ‘Western culture’ from which spring the ideals both of the English language and of English language teaching methodology (Holliday 2005). Use of the concept follows a now established concern about political inequalities within ELT (for example, Canagarajah 1999, Kubota 2001, Pennycook 1994). However, other attempts to captu…
On Race, Language, Power and Identity: Understanding the Intricacies through Multicultural Communication, Language Policies, and the Ebonics Debate
Intercultural Communication: An Advanced Resource Book. A. Holliday, M. Hyde, and J. Kullman Language Policy: Theory and Method. T. Ricento Ebonics: The Urban Education Debate (2nd Edition). J. Ramirez, T. Wiley, G. de Klerk, E. Lee, and W. Wright
Doing and Writing Qualitative Research
Approaching Qualitative Research Starting Out Showing the Workings What Counts as Data Writing about Data Writer Voice Writing about Relations Making Appropriate Claims
Standards of English and politics of inclusion
Standards of English for English language teacher education need to consider political as well as linguistic factors. Any definition of such standards on the basis of speakerhood would immediately fall into the trap of native-speakerist discrimination, which is intensified by unspoken associations with ‘ethnicity’. Who can be recognized as ‘native speaker’ or ‘near-native speaker’ is not simply a matter of language. Any definition of English stan…
The role of culture in English language education: Key challenges
English language education is in the process of change regarding teacher identity and the ownership of English. Cultural issues are implicated in this change. Critical cosmopolitan approaches in the social sciences are critiquing the primacy of national cultures which they consider a Western imposition on the emergent identities of the Periphery. Within this climate traditional native–non-native speaker categories become a Centre professional imp…
The Denial of Ideology in Perceptions of ‘Nonnative Speake’ Teachers
There is now general acceptance that the traditional ‘nonnative speaker’ label for teachers of English is problematic on sociolinguistic grounds and can be the source of employment discrimination. However, there continues to be disagreement regarding how far there is a prejudice against ‘nonnative speaker’ teachers which is deep and sustained and connected to an inherent racism within the fabric of Western society. This article argues that there …
Complexity in cultural identity
Despite their diverse national backgrounds, 28 interviewees speak similarly about the complexity of the cultural realities with which they live, and refuse to be pinned down to specific cultural types. While nation is of great importance, unless personally inspiring, it tends to be an external force which is in conflict with a wide variety of layered cultural realities which collect around personal life trajectories (including religion, family hi…
Cultural descriptions as political cultural acts: An exploration
Interculturality may be something normal which everyone possesses to a degree. However, dominant neo-essentialist theories of culture give the impression that we are too different to easily cross-cultural boundaries. These theories support the development of academic disciplines and the need for professional certainty in intercultural training. There is an illusion of neutrality in established cultural descriptions such as collectivism and indivi…
Intercultural Communication and Ideology
Preface and methodology Chapter 1: Key Discussions Essentialism Neo-Essentialism Cosmopolitanism Imagined Certainty versus Acknowledged Complexity Chapter 2: Critical Cultural Awareness Models of Awareness A Reconstructed Narrative Critical Interpretivism A Decentred Reading Opening up Cultural Possibilities Chapter 3: Cultural Complexity Informants An Emergent Methodology Statements of Cultural Identity Competing Social Theories Complexity and P…
Validity in Qualitative Research
Qualitative research is a mainstream social science methodology which looks deeply at instances of social life which are difficult to see with more quantitative surveys and experiments.
Interrogating Researcher Participation in an Interview Study of Intercultural Contribution in the Workplace
As part of a study of intercultural contribution to workplace practices, an interview with Sara, a long-term newcomer to Britain, reveals how her non-Western background has made her a more effective manager despite a sustained feeling of being "foreign." However, much of what she says appears to be in response to considerable researcher suggestion that might invalidate the interview. Further analysis of the interview interaction is set within the…
The politics of ethics in diverse cultural settings: Colonising the centre stage
This paper interrogates the proposition that Western ethical practices in qualitative social research are incompatible with cultures outside the West. It is argued that incompatibility is less to do with national cultural differences than with paradigm differences in (1) perceptions of ‘culture’ and (2) qualitative research methodology. In both areas, there is a dominant positivist or postpositivist paradigm that encourages a false and polarised …
A novel tool to predict food intake: The Visual Meal Creator
Sociology (27 works) · Psychology (22 works) · Pedagogy (16 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (12 works) · Social science (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works)