Juliana De Nooy

The University of Queensland | UQ · School of Languages and Cultures

Group work is widely acknowledged as a valuable learning activity, but its appropriateness in the Vietnamese context has been questioned. Concerned by the imposition of Western pedagogy, researchers have sought to accommodate Vietnamese students' preferences to produce culturally appropriate means of implementing group work. Such preferences includ...

Disagreement has been traditionally viewed as a dispreferred response, which speakers tend to avoid or mitigate due to its presumed face threatening effects. However, more recent studies argue that disagreement is not inherently dispreferred or marked, but needs to be contextualized. This article examines the interactions of Vietnamese EFL students...

The websites of an abundance of Australian businesses invite us to enjoy a more French existence through the purchase of French products, lessons, travel and property, and through participating in the opportunities for interaction they offer via social media. This paper proposes a case study of the forms this interaction takes on the Facebook page...

Memoirs by Australians of living in France have proliferated since 2001. Their appeal largely depends on providing an insider's insights, and invariably the authors refer to their feelings of belonging in France. Belonging to a place is commonly conceived of as a gradual attachment established through repeated local routines. In these memoirs, howe...

While only one book-length memoir recounting the sojourn of an Australian in France was published in the 1990s, thirty-seven have been published since 2000, overwhelmingly written by women. In the majority of these accounts, France serves as a backdrop to a project of refashioning the self. This article traces the ways in which France is configured...

The possibility of relatively anonymous communication involving no physical proximity means that Internet discussion forums offer opportunities for cross-gender communication that do not necessarily violate Saudi Arabian rules for behavior. This article studies participation in a public discussion forum for expatriate Saudi students. Building on a...

Travel memoirs tend to be premised on the transformation of the self through spatial translation. This paper explores the roles language might play in this transformation, and the possibilities of a linguistic translation of the self among memoirs of Australians in France. Among the recent rush of memoirs by Australians of their sojourns in France,...

Internet discussion forums provide opportunities for largely anonymous communication among participants. The extent to which these opportunities are taken up is of particular interest in cultures where gender relations are highly regulated and cross-gender communication is strictly limited, such as in Saudi Arabian society. This article studies par...

Although commonly characterized as an immigrant nation, Australia has been shaped just as importantly by the overseas journeys of its people, and the liminal experiences thus provided have not only been self-defining and defining of the other, but at times nation-defining. This special issue proposes a multidisciplinary analysis of Australian trave...

Rare during the twentieth century, at least twenty-nine book-length memoirs of Australians in France have been published since 2000. Unlike their British and American counterparts, these are overwhelmingly written by women, staying as often as not in Paris as in rural France. The relocation inevitably provides the opportunity for reinvention of the...

The Narcissus myth, as an object both of fiction and of theory, and dealt with by both writers and analysts, has undergone a series of transformations. In describing the projection of one’s self imago and the attempt to mingle with it or to identify with it, the numerous tales range from the tragic (Ovid) to the triumphant (Lacan). What binds them...

Public Internet discussion forums offer vast possibilities for interaction with speakers of other languages, with newspaper websites from many countries proposing forums on a smorgasbord of topics from travel to tertiary education to techno music. These sites provide opportunities both for authentic foreign language practise, and for developing int...

The course described in Chapter 9 is one example of the integration of Internet discussion forums into the teaching of language and culture. In this case, a pre-existing course on argumentation in French was renovated to include what is, for many forum users, an everyday genre of argumentation. Participation in public discussion forums was used as...

Having explored beliefs about culture’s manifestations online let us pursue the question of cultural and generic convention and their interactions with each other and with technology through the particular example of the mass-media public discussion forums introduced in Chapter 1. We present two snapshots of the forums, at particular points in thei...

With the proliferation of discussion facilitated by Internet forums, one might imagine that, notwithstanding the problems encountered by some learners, intercultural communication now has fertile ground within which to flourish. Closer inspection, however, reveals that cordial intercultural exchanges are far from widespread in this genre. This sugg...

Our preceding discussion of genre raises the question of the identities that language learners are able to assert in online discussion. For some learners, adopting a speaking position appropriate to the genre may involve investing oneself in an L2 identity — an identity in the second/foreign language — that is unfamiliar, uncomfortable, or indeed u...

The communicative possibilities of the Internet have been eagerly seized upon by those who deal in the teaching of communication, including language teachers. As a result, there are currently vast numbers of language learners engaged in email exchanges with learners in other countries, while teachers from around the world organize discussion activi...

Cultures and the practices through which they manifest themselves are not static, but under constant renegotiation. Thus genres are not immutable; they continue to evolve. In the case of Internet discussion it could even be argued that, as a relatively new mode of interaction, it is somewhat more susceptible to change than more traditional forms of...

Approaching the year 2000, a chorus of complaints arose about the lack of research on intercultural CMC. Jarvenpaa and Leidner’s (1998) lament that ‘[w]hile there is a wealth of research on computer-mediated communication and research on cross-cultural communication, there is a paucity of research on cross-cultural computer-mediated communication’...

Once upon a time there were four learners of French and their names were Fleurie, Laura, Eleanor and David. They hopped onto the Internet from Britain and the US and clicked their way across Le Monde (more precisely its online discussion pages). Fleurie and Eleanor, who were good little students, looked for penpals in order to improve their French,...

Argumentation skills — the ability to present and defend logical and well-structured arguments — are highly valued in French. They require not only linguistic proficiency, but also culturally specific techniques for articulating one’s ideas and engaging with those of others.

The paper explores the nexus between intercultural storytelling and intercultural learning. Noting the wide appeal of the travel memoir set in France, it takes as a case study a book that, while positioned within that genre, attempts to shift some predictable patterns: Sarah Turnbull’s best-selling Almost French. Analysis shows that the book in fac...

Public Internet discussion forums appear to offer limitless opportunities for communication across linguistic, geographical and cultural borders. Closer inspection, however, reveals that cordial intercultural exchanges are far from widespread in this genre. And yet, such forums have a great deal to offer the independent language learner in terms of...

Stories of twins are told with astonishing frequency in contemporary culture. Films and novels from recent decades repeatedly tell of the stranglehold of brotherly love, the evil twin who steals her sister's lover, the homicidal mutant twin, the reunion of twins separated at birth, warring twins, and confusion between look-alikes. Twins in Contempo...

Stories of twins are told with astonishing frequency in contemporary culture. Films and novels from recent decades repeatedly tell of the stranglehold of brotherly love, the evil twin who steals her sister's lover, the homicidal mutant twin on a rampage, the reunion of twins separated at birth, twins divided by national borders, and confusion betwe...

In 1997 a television news item signalling the fiftieth anniversary of the partition of India and Pakistan included a cameo piece: twin brothers, long separated by the border, were reunited to blow out the candles on their fiftieth birthday cake.1 A perfect coincidence, of course, but also a perfect illustration of the way in which twins are so read...

Reunited twins may be a news story, but they are hardly a new story. The minutiae of lives — habits found to be shared, extraordinary parallels or contrasts in experiences — may differ from case to case, but the tale is predictable enough to be parodied, an opportunity taken up by Robert Rodi in Drag Queen (1995). Queer rather than quirky, conspicu...

They say truth is stranger than fiction. In any case, the same narrative problems arise in the telling of it. Let me start with the tale of the identical Bloomfield twins, William and John, who lived, worked and died together. Born three minutes apart, they died only two minutes apart, aged 61, of almost simultaneous heart-attacks. But how do you t...

Isabella Rossellini stars as Rachel Marks, a top West Coast fashion model searching for a more satisfying life. Her journey brings her to the office of therapist Jonathan McEwan (Aidan Quinn), an honest, sensitive and loving man. The two fall in love and all is well until Rachel becomes bored. Then she meets James, Jonathan’s identical twin brother...

Umberto Eco identifies as postmodern the need to acknowledge the repetition of past utterances, of familiar plots: I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that he cannot say to her, ‘I love you madly’, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows he knows) that these words have already...

In the decade preceding the revival of wicked twin sister films discussed in Chapter 3, we start to find another recurrent pattern in film, this time involving brothers, but not just any twin brothers. From the early 1980s until the mid-1990s, conjoined twins (once known as ‘Siamese’ twins due to the celebrity of the nineteenth-century brothers Cha...

Before bringing the threads of the preceding chapters together, I should like to focus briefly on a recurrent feminist use of twins. The novels concerned — Angela Carter’s Wise Children (1991), Margaret Laurence’s A Jest of God (1966), and Marilyn Bowering’s Visible Worlds (1998) — are too diverse to constitute a cluster. They can however be rather...

Twin tales are told and retold with astonishing frequency in contemporary culture. Newspapers give front-page prominence to accounts of the birth or surgical separation of conjoined babies, to twins dying of simultaneous heart attacks or bicycle accidents, to twins in crime and twins in sport. The reunion of twins separated at birth and the coincid...

This paper explores the construction of identity, particularly with reference to texts (literary, philosophic, popular and cinematic) in French, as an introduction to a volume of papers on the topic. We demonstrate that the papers presented in that collection will show the effects on the reading of the self both of inertia and of deliberate modific...

Although a good deal of research exists both on computer-mediated communication(CMC) and on cross-cultural communication, rarely are the two areas brought together. In practice, however, extrapolation from one context to the other is common, with the internet and email being increasingly used to teach cross-cultural communication. What assumptions...

Interviews with Australian university students returning from study in France indicate that problems in accessing crucial information are common experiences, and frequently lead to students reproducing stereotypes of French administrative inefficiency. Our paper argues that the issue is not one of information per se but of cultural differences in t...

Amongst the opportunities for cross-cultural contact created by the burgeoning use of the internet are those provided by electronic discussion lists. This study looks at what happens when language students venture out of the classroom (virtual or otherwise) to participate in on-line discussion groups with native speakers. Responses to messages and...

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Queensland, 1987. Includes bibliography.

Prompting fascination and fear since mythological times, twins continue to haunt our imagination. Identical, non-identical, conjoined, mutant, telepathic, homicidal, buddies, soul-mates or jealous rivals, twins feature in scores of films across a range of genres; comedy, drama, thriller, horror, sci-fi, action and auteur cinema. Amidst this apparen...

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The paper explores the nexus between intercultural storytelling and intercultural learning. Noting the wide appeal of the travel memoir set in France, it takes as a case study a book that, while positioned within that genre, attempts to shift some predictable patterns: Sarah Turnbull’s best-selling Almost French. Analysis shows that the book in fac...

The synergism between chloramphenicol and polymyxin B sulphate, earlier noticed using a replica technique, has been reexamined applying quantitative methods. Vital count experiments in suspensions ofSalmonella typhimurium in broth have revealed that addition of bacteriostatic concentrations of chloramphenicol in a range of 5–100 μg/ml to bacteriost...

Summary The effects of some antibiotics acting alone or in combination upon 72 strains of variousSalmonella species were investigated usingElek andHilson’s variant ofLederberg’s replica technique. Chloramphenicol and tetracycline were found to act mainly bacteriostatically; streptomycin and neomycin varied in their action from bacteriostatic for s...

Summary and conclusions A technical improvement is described of the typhoid Vi agglutination test in which aceton-dried suspensions are used.

Summary A newSalmonella type (S. haarlem) with the antigenic formula 9,12: z: e,n,x, is described. *** DIRECT SUPPORT *** A1365006 00016