CIICPD 2023

episodic representation (“Food part”, “The meaning of a smile”, “Harassment”, “Paying a bill in a restaurant”, “Friendly criticism”, “Greeting” and “Jízdenka v divadelní pokladně”) and CI-narratives with mainly reporting (descriptive) representations (“Chinese Challenge”, “Austrians and the master course”, “Happy Ending”, “Leaving a team member / team leader”, “Prejudices”). This division corresponds to the results of the research on the above-mentioned German corpus. Given space limitations, we will provide a detailed analysis of six CI-narratives in the text and a short analysis of all the narratives in the table in Appendix III. The first group of CI-narratives includes three episodes written by the staff. Four narratives are contributions from the students. The second group of CI-narratives, then, contains one situation described by the staff and four provided by the students. As already pointed out in the introduction, no distinction will be made between the CI-narratives from the staff and the students. The order in which the examples will be analysed is arbitrary. It was also decided to not consider the meta-data about the narrator and the actors for this analysis, with the aim of avoiding culturalisation and stereotyping. This decision was taken because in the process of intercultural learning a priori essentialist thinking can better be avoided when cultural categories are not introduced by the trainer or the training material but only taken into consideration when made relevant by the learners themselves. This idea is also present in the didactic stimuli which follow each analysis. The stimuli open up a space for multi-perspective reflection without privileging cultural categories. This access enlarges the interpretive horizon, which helps learners to go beyond reductive essentialist explanations. Ideally, the stimuli should be discussed in heterogeneous groups. 4.2.1 Scenic-episodic Representations Using the Lucius-Hoene and Deppermann categories (2004, pp. 156–157), the following three CI-narratives can be considered as “temporally self-contained episodes […] with a detailed working through of the event continuum”.

CI-narrative 1

Food part 1 I ’ m a exchange student staying at a dorm. In order to get to know each other in a better way I’ve 2 decided to organize a typical dinner to get to know each other. After preparing our dinner and sat 3 my dormmates in the kitchen I ’ ve noticed a weird look in thier faces. At that moment I have 4 realized that some students were Muslims or vegan. I had prepared a pork schnitzel curry. I have 5 learned that I must not take for granted that what is normal for me, might not be normal for other 6 people from another society.

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