Recepta na klęskę w komunikacji międzykulturowej - o ksenofobicznych grach komunikacyjnych Amélie Nothomb

• Authors: Jabłoński Arkadiusz

Title variants

EN

A RECIPE FOR DISASTER IN CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION - ON THE XENOPHOBIC COMMUNICATION GAMES OF AMÉLIE NOTHOMB

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

From the point of view of a culture researcher and linguist, the description of cross-cultural communication phenomena in terms of games, performed in fixed situations and according to certain rules, makes it possible to reveal the actor's objectives and methods of achieving them which apply in a certain communication environment. Both objectives and methods may essentially differ in the target communication environment, which makes the researcher's task difficult, though possible, assuming a minimal level of determination and objectivity is assured. It should not be forgotten that games may be both constructive and destructive. A game may function as a weapon, and that includes the stage of cross-cultural communication. A characteristic example of such an approach is the novel by Nothomb published in Poland under the title With Humbleness and Humility describing, allegedly 'with distance and humour', the adventures of the author during her work in the office of a Japanese company. The description of hypocritical games which the text is larded with may be instructive on account of the exceptionally condensed set of techniques serving effectively to disable cross-cultural understanding, even though the narrator who uses them overtly declares their openness, objectivity and readiness for agreement. The peculiar mix of xenophobia and orientalism of Nothomb's text uncovers numerous phenomena inevitably present in the background of cross-cultural communication, although rarely described by researchers. This paper attempts at introducing Polish readers to such phenomena.

Keywords

EN

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION; JAPAN; JAPANESE; LINGUISTICS; LUDOLINGUSTICS; LUDOLOGY

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Badania Gier (Games Research Association of Poland)
• Journal: Homo Ludens
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 1(2)
• Pages: 29-36
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jabłoński Arkadiusz

• Arkadiusz Jablonski, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Wydzial Neofilologii, Katedra Orientalistyki, Zaklad Japonistyki, ul. 28 czerwca 1956 r. nr 198, 61-485 Poznan, Poland

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