CLER Conversations with Intercultural Studies: Dr Elisabetta Adami

Dr Elizabetta Adami, Associate Professor in Multimodal Communication, School of Languages, Cultures and Society, University of Leeds
Baines Wing SR (2.10) 

Intercultural communication research is often confined to linguistic analysis of interactions between people from different countries or mother tongues. Yet cultural practices cross national borders, nations are not culturally homogeneous, and we communicate with more than language.

What if we examine shared and non-shared meanings and practices beyond language? Can this reveal boundaries of cultural others/kins beyond nationalities/ethnicities? And can this turn interculturality into a useful lens to look at, and cross all kinds of societal divides, as in polarisation, identity politics, intergenerational incommunicability, clashing lifestyles, neurotypical-neurodivergent encounters?

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Elisabetta Adami, PhD, is Associate Professor in Multimodal Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research specialises in social semiotic multimodal analysis with a current focus on issues of culture, interculturality and translation. She has published on sign-making practices in place (on urban visual landscapes and superdiversity), in digital environments (on intercultural digital literacies, aesthetics, interactivity and social media practices), and in face-to-face interaction (in intercultural contexts and deaf-hearing interactions).