Intercultural language socialization of a Chinese MBA student in an American negotiation class

Abstract

By incorporating the analytic power of language socialization and intercultural communication, this study looked into the influential factors involved in a Chinese MBA student's intercultural language socialization in an American negotiation class. The framework of intercultural language socialization functioned to organize cross-disciplinary concepts and analytical tools to unveil some of the subtle but interweaving links among different temporal phases and domains of the cross-cultural newcomer's developmental process, mainly from the perspectives of cross-cultural transfer, the interactive routine in the local communicative context, the influence of one's home cultural language socialization, and the individual's gradual incorporation of the locally practiced communicative norms.