The Forming of Culturally Specific Impressions of the Other and Self through Intercultural Communication
Abstract
Published in 2001, Astrid Ertelt-Vieth's habilitation thesis is an empirical study of a Russian-German student exchange programme. Ertelt-Vieth analyses data from two groups of Russian students before, during, and after a trip to Germany to investigate their changing impressions of Germans over the course of daily intercultural communication. The resultant study delineates common cultural symbols used by the Russians as well as a number of ways in which the two cultures vary. The models for the study's approach, methodology, and analysis stem from many disciplines and interdisciplinary research areas, including foreign language instruction and research, exchange research, intercultural communication, pedagogy and mediation, translation studies, interdisciplinary and intercultural research on taboos, and cultural semiotics.
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