Speaker

Xi Dai

Xi Dai is a trilingual researcher in Chinese, Japanese and English, currently completing a Master of General and Applied Linguistics (Advanced) at the Australian National University. Her research focuses on metapragmatics and cross-cultural communication, with particular interest in how culturally embedded communicative scripts shape interpersonal meaning across languages.

Sessions

Offence as intimacy: Understanding mock aggression in cross-cultural communication

In Japanese interpersonal communication, intimacy is typically signalled through softened speech, indirectness and careful attention to relational hierarchy. In English or Chinese, however, mock aggression or playful insults may function as a marker of closeness. This presentation examines this cross-linguistic variation and its implications for dialogue translation and community interpreting....

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