Article Open Access http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2024.12.016
An Analysis of Intercultural Communication Conflicts and Coping Strategies in The Joy Luck Club Based on Hall’s High-context and Low-context Culture Theory
Yaoguang Chen
School of Foreign Languages, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, China.
*Corresponding author: Yaoguang Chen
Published: January 8,2025
Abstract
The Joy Luck Club is a novel by Amy Tan, published in 1989. It tells the story of four pairs of Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters, exploring the complex relationships and cultural conflicts between them. It delves into the generational and cultural gaps as the daughters struggle to understand their mothers' traditional Chinese values while navigating their own identities in American society. The mother-daughter relationship and female growth have always been the focus of research on The Joy Luck Club in recent years. Howev-er, the cultural conflicts between different cultures reflected in the novel also deserve our attention. From the perspective of high-context and low-context cultures proposed by the famous American anthropologist Hall, this paper will analyze the intercultural conflicts manifested in the work, and on this basis, solutions to the conflicts will be given in this paper as well, with a view to better realizing intercultural communication activities in life.
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How to cite this paper
An Analysis of Intercultural Communication Conflicts and Coping Strategies in The Joy Luck Club Based on Hall's High-context and Low-context Culture Theory
How to cite this paper: Yaoguang Chen. (2024) An Analysis of Intercultural Communication Conflicts and Coping Strategies in The Joy Luck Club Based on Hall's High-context and Low-context Culture Theory. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, 8(12), 2754-2758.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2024.12.016