Katherine Kappa
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Centre for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use (CIP)
Emil Holms Kanal 4, 2300 København S
Current research
Primary areas of research
- social interaction
- collaborations
- (organised) cultural encounters
- diversity
Current research
PhD dissertation title: Emergence in a transient social configuration: How strangers establish practices for working together within international development
Supervisor: Janus Mortensen
Grant: The Danish Council for Independent Research, Humanities
Project affiliation: Transient Multilingual Communities
Collaborations among individuals who do not have the same sociocultural and linguistic backgrounds have become that much more common in this globalized world. The different resources and ideas about acceptable norms of behavior that people bring with them into different professional, but also informal, situations often pose interactional challenges as well as can prove pivotal for the success of a collaboration.
My PhD research is a linguistic ethnography of a 6-day collaboration between a Nordic solidarity organisation and a civil society organisation in Swaziland. My interest is in the interactional establishment of a shared body of knowledge between these participants who have no shared professional history.
Teaching
- English as a lingua franca
- Academic writing in English
Fields of interest
Social interaction, change, collaborations, diversity, organised cultural encounters, power.
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Emergence in a transient social configuration: A linguistic ethnographic study of how strangers establish practices for working together within international development
Research output: Book/Report › Ph.D. thesis › Research
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