Yanrong Chang
Biographic Data
| ID | 6184045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yanrong Chang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yanrong |
| FAMILY NAME | Chang |
| SIGNATURE | CHANG Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A communication-process-centered (CPC) approach to intercultural communication education
Purpose In response to a call to seek renewed purpose and new conceptualizations for intercultural communication education (ICE) (Dervin and Tournebise, 2013), the purpose of this conceptual paper is to critiquee limited traditional models of ICE and to propose, explain and argue for a communication-process-centered (CPC) approach to the field. The proposed CPC framework emphasizes dynamic conceptualizations of culture, identity, and interaction …
A Cultural Communication Perspective on Hispanic Students’ College Experiences
Guided by the theoretical assumption that college life is a culturally situated, symbolic process of interaction between students and various others, this qualitative study attempts to explore how minority students’ home culture, which is different from the dominant college culture, helps them make sense of their college experiences. The respondent interviewing method was used to obtain Hispanic students’ responses to questions that allow them to…
A Qualitative Study of Intercultural Friendship through New Social Media
Applying Casmir’s Third Culture Model (TCM) of intercultural communication (Casmir 1993, 1999), the current study examines the ongoing interaction between two international participants mediated by one social medium: WeChat. It describes the dialogic communication patterns between the participants that enabled them collaboratively to construct a shared and mutually beneficial third culture that brought about a productive intercultural friendship.…
A cultural discourse analysis of obituaries in China
Discourse enacts and creates cultural meanings and it can be used by powerless cultural members to creatively and rhetorically assert self-worth and have their voices heard. Taking a cultural approach to discourse and communication, this study examined three types of obituary discourse in the Chinese society. It shows that multiple obituary discourses enact and discursively create a stratified society. It also demonstrates the liberating power of…
Using storytelling in culturally situated ways to persuade
This study examines how storytelling is manipulated in culturally meaningful ways for persuasive purposes by describing patterns of storytelling in Chinese criminal courts and analyzing ways in which the court manipulated the form and content of storytelling in order to accomplish multiple persuasive goals — to convince defendants of their guilt, to create an image of justice, and to educate the public about legal and moral conduct
Never Mind? - Mindfulness and Competent Intercultural Interaction
The ultimate goal of intercultural communication research and education has been or should be to have successful intercultural interactions and build productive intercultural relationships. A close examination of 42 pairs of email exchanges between college students in the U.S. and China during spring 2011 shows how mindfulness shapes positively intercultural interactions. It describes three manifestations of mindfulness, five salient features of …
You Think I am Stupid? Face Needs in Intercultural Conflicts
Embedded in intercultural conflicts are identity or face-based goal issues (Rothman, 1997), which, when not effectively managed, may lead to unresolved conflicts. This study examined actual email interactions over a period of five months between an American visiting professor and an International Office staff member at a University in China. It showed three patterns of interaction that failed to manage each other’s face or identity needs and led …
Self Mentions as Distinct Speech Codes in English Language Use in Intercultural Communication
As an international language, English has been widely used in intercultural verbal communication. However, nonnative English users with different cultural backgrounds, influenced by their culturally situated norms of encoding and decoding messages, tend to convey culture-specific messages in the nonnative form (Kachru, 1984). Consequently, misunderstanding may occur. Applying Gerry Philipsen's speech codes theory, this paper attempts to illustrat…
A qualitative study of temporary reentry from significant others’ perspective
Courtroom Questioning as a Culturally Situated Persuasive Genre of Talk
Questioning takes on culture-specific forms and has culturespecific functions. The purpose of questioning in Chinese criminal courtrooms is not to obtain information; rather it is to persuade. Five patterns of questioning, invoking Chinese cultural notions of shame and morality, are used to extract confessions and remorse from defendants: (i) repeating key questions, (ii) invalidating excuses or accounts, (iii) asking unanswerable questions, (iv)…
Courtroom Questioning as a Culturally Situated Persuasive Genre of Talk
Questioning takes on culture-specific forms and has culturespecific functions. The purpose of questioning in Chinese criminal courtrooms is not to obtain information; rather it is to persuade. Five patterns of questioning, invoking Chinese cultural notions of shame and morality, are used to extract confessions and remorse from defendants: (i) repeating key questions, (ii) invalidating excuses or accounts, (iii) asking unanswerable questions, (iv)…
A Qualitative Study of Intercultural Friendship through New Social Media
Applying Casmir’s Third Culture Model (TCM) of intercultural communication (Casmir 1993, 1999), the current study examines the ongoing interaction between two international participants mediated by one social medium: WeChat. It describes the dialogic communication patterns between the participants that enabled them collaboratively to construct a shared and mutually beneficial third culture that brought about a productive intercultural friendship.…
A cultural discourse analysis of obituaries in China
Discourse enacts and creates cultural meanings and it can be used by powerless cultural members to creatively and rhetorically assert self-worth and have their voices heard. Taking a cultural approach to discourse and communication, this study examined three types of obituary discourse in the Chinese society. It shows that multiple obituary discourses enact and discursively create a stratified society. It also demonstrates the liberating power of…
Never Mind? - Mindfulness and Competent Intercultural Interaction
The ultimate goal of intercultural communication research and education has been or should be to have successful intercultural interactions and build productive intercultural relationships. A close examination of 42 pairs of email exchanges between college students in the U.S. and China during spring 2011 shows how mindfulness shapes positively intercultural interactions. It describes three manifestations of mindfulness, five salient features of …
Courtroom Questioning as a Culturally Situated Persuasive Genre of Talk
Questioning takes on culture-specific forms and has culturespecific functions. The purpose of questioning in Chinese criminal courtrooms is not to obtain information; rather it is to persuade. Five patterns of questioning, invoking Chinese cultural notions of shame and morality, are used to extract confessions and remorse from defendants: (i) repeating key questions, (ii) invalidating excuses or accounts, (iii) asking unanswerable questions, (iv)…
A qualitative study of temporary reentry from significant others’ perspective
Self Mentions as Distinct Speech Codes in English Language Use in Intercultural Communication
As an international language, English has been widely used in intercultural verbal communication. However, nonnative English users with different cultural backgrounds, influenced by their culturally situated norms of encoding and decoding messages, tend to convey culture-specific messages in the nonnative form (Kachru, 1984). Consequently, misunderstanding may occur. Applying Gerry Philipsen's speech codes theory, this paper attempts to illustrat…
You Think I am Stupid? Face Needs in Intercultural Conflicts
Embedded in intercultural conflicts are identity or face-based goal issues (Rothman, 1997), which, when not effectively managed, may lead to unresolved conflicts. This study examined actual email interactions over a period of five months between an American visiting professor and an International Office staff member at a University in China. It showed three patterns of interaction that failed to manage each other’s face or identity needs and led …
Never Mind? - Mindfulness and Competent Intercultural Interaction
The ultimate goal of intercultural communication research and education has been or should be to have successful intercultural interactions and build productive intercultural relationships. A close examination of 42 pairs of email exchanges between college students in the U.S. and China during spring 2011 shows how mindfulness shapes positively intercultural interactions. It describes three manifestations of mindfulness, five salient features of …
Using storytelling in culturally situated ways to persuade
This study examines how storytelling is manipulated in culturally meaningful ways for persuasive purposes by describing patterns of storytelling in Chinese criminal courts and analyzing ways in which the court manipulated the form and content of storytelling in order to accomplish multiple persuasive goals — to convince defendants of their guilt, to create an image of justice, and to educate the public about legal and moral conduct
A cultural discourse analysis of obituaries in China
Discourse enacts and creates cultural meanings and it can be used by powerless cultural members to creatively and rhetorically assert self-worth and have their voices heard. Taking a cultural approach to discourse and communication, this study examined three types of obituary discourse in the Chinese society. It shows that multiple obituary discourses enact and discursively create a stratified society. It also demonstrates the liberating power of…
A Qualitative Study of Intercultural Friendship through New Social Media
Applying Casmir’s Third Culture Model (TCM) of intercultural communication (Casmir 1993, 1999), the current study examines the ongoing interaction between two international participants mediated by one social medium: WeChat. It describes the dialogic communication patterns between the participants that enabled them collaboratively to construct a shared and mutually beneficial third culture that brought about a productive intercultural friendship.…
A Cultural Communication Perspective on Hispanic Students’ College Experiences
Guided by the theoretical assumption that college life is a culturally situated, symbolic process of interaction between students and various others, this qualitative study attempts to explore how minority students’ home culture, which is different from the dominant college culture, helps them make sense of their college experiences. The respondent interviewing method was used to obtain Hispanic students’ responses to questions that allow them to…
A communication-process-centered (CPC) approach to intercultural communication education
Purpose In response to a call to seek renewed purpose and new conceptualizations for intercultural communication education (ICE) (Dervin and Tournebise, 2013), the purpose of this conceptual paper is to critiquee limited traditional models of ICE and to propose, explain and argue for a communication-process-centered (CPC) approach to the field. The proposed CPC framework emphasizes dynamic conceptualizations of culture, identity, and interaction …
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Intercultural communication (5 works) · China (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)