Vol. 15 | Building workplace relationships through laughter

<p>Living in an intercultural environment can be highly rewarding but also difficult, particularly when conflicts arise that are not easy to predict or understand. Dr. Ping Du from the School of Education and English is here to help! Ping’s expertise is in research and business executive training in intercultural workplace communication, incorporating psychology, pragmatics and sociolinguistics. For this episode, Ping talks about her paper “Shared laughter as relational strategy at intercultural conflictual workplace interactions”, published in the Journal of Pragmatics.</p><p><strong>笑声战术？如何在跨文化环境中减少冲突</strong></p><p>“哈哈哈！”你是否留意过，在职场冲突的紧张时刻，那些突然响起的笑声？它们或许比你想象中更有策略性！尤其是在跨文化的语境下，这些笑声可能成为你克服冲突的制胜法宝。我们邀请到了来自教育与英语语言文学系的现代英语/文学语言学助理教授杜萍博士，杜萍博士的专业领域是跨文化职场沟通的研究和商业高管培训，融合了心理学、语用学和社会语言学的理论。在本期节目中，杜萍博士和我们谈论的她发表在《语用学杂志》上的文章《共同笑声作为跨文化冲突职场互动的关系策略》。</p><p><strong>| 收听方式 |</strong></p><p>你可以在小宇宙、苹果播客、喜马拉雅、YouTube、Spotify等平台收听我们的节目。</p><p><strong>| 参与人员 |</strong></p><p>本期嘉宾：杜萍博士（现代英语/文学语言学助理教授）</p><p...