Dymplexity
New theories, new contexts and new labels for mobile students
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12890237 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James A Coleman (0000-0001-8114-9015, The Open University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 20-28 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Multicultural Discourses (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-7143 • E-ISSN: 1747-6615 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17447143.2013.776057 |
| OpenAlex | W2028348207 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 10 |
In their article ‘A guide to interculturality for international and exchange students: an example of Hostipitality ’, Fred Dervin and Heidi Layne discuss two locally-produced documents designed to help international and exchange students acclimatise to life in Finland. Drawing on Derrida, Bauman, Bakhtin and other theoretical approaches to cultures, to interculturality and to discourse analysis, they find that the documents seek to impose on visiting students the norms of an essentialised Finnishness. In this response, I adopt a simpler theoretical position to reflect on theoretical neologisms, and to challenge what is fundamentally a binary statement of the issue, and one which potentially misrepresents the documents by drawing on concepts which are no longer apt, and by ignoring some key factors of the context of their production and use. I suggest that dymplexity might be a more appropriate term than hostipidality for considering intercultural aspects of student mobility
Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Interculturality · Linguistics · Neologism · Pedagogy · Sociology · Statement (logic · Term (time · Global Education and Multiculturalism · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Multilingual Education and Policy
The Study of Second Language Acquisition
Actionable Postcolonial Theory in Education
Study Abroad Social Networks, Motivation and Attitudes
Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis
Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics
Social network formation and development during study abroad in the Middle East
Complex, dynamic systems
Critical Pedagogy and Intercultural Communication
Super-diversity and its implications
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |