Robert.st.clair@louisville.edu

http://louisville.edu/~rnstcl01/

Education:

• MA in Polynesian Linguistics, University of Washington
• MA in Romance Linguistics, University of California San Diego
• Ph.D., University of Kansas

Research Interests:

• Japanese language
• Intercultural communication
• Globalization theory

Book Chapters and Journal Articles:

• “Modernization and the Sedimentation of Cultural Space of Harbin, Peoples Republic of China,” (with Song, Wei, and Wang, Song).
• “Modernization and the Sedimentation of Cultural Space: The Stratificational Patterns of Mumbai (Bombay) And Bangalore.” (with Margaret U. D’Silva). International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies, Harbin, China. June 2007.
• “Intercultural Incommensurability and the Globalization of Chinese Medicine: The Case of Acupuncture.” (with Rodriguez, Walter; Roberts, Andrew M. and Irving G. Joshua). The Journal of Comparative Asian Development Volume 5 (1), Spring 2006. Pages 171- 184.
• “Cultural Emergence: Making Sense of the Present and Redefining the Past.” In Bates L. Hoffer, Nobuyuki Honna, and Yuko Takeshita (Editors), Intercultural Communication beyond the Canon (Published in Japanese). Tokyo: Sanshusha Publishing Company.

Books:

• Metaphorizing the World through Chinese Characters. (with YuXin Jia). 2007.
• Theories of Cultural Change: From Modernism to Post-Modernism. (with Margaret U. D’Silva). NY: Oxford University Press. (book proposal in preparation).
• Harmony, Diversity, and Intercultural Communication. (with YuXin Jia, and Hu
  Wengzhong). Editors. Intercultural Communication Studies. 2007
• Language, Culture, and Identity. (with YuXin Jia, and Nobuyuki Honna). Editors. Shanghai Foreign Language Press. 2007
• Visual Metaphor and the Contextualization of Analogical Thought.. (with YuXin Jia). Edwin Mellen Presss. 2007.
• The Sociology of Knowledge as a Model for Language Theory: Language as a Social Science. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. 2006
• The Social Dimensions of Communicating across Cultures. (with Manuel F. Medina, Ana Clotilde Thomé-Williams, and Li Zeng). Editors. ICSXIII (3). 2004
• Disparities among Transcultural Values: Refutation, Resignation and Reception. (with Manuel F. Medina, Ana Clotilde Thomé-Williams, and Li Zeng). Editors. ICS XIII (2) 2004 San Antonio, Texas: Trinity University. 2004.

Administrative Positions:

• Executive Director, International Association Intercultural Communication Studies conference which will be held in Louisville in 2008, and in Japan in 2009
• Co-Director of the International Conference on Harmony, Diversity and Intercultural Communication, Harbin, China (June 2007). The conference is co-sponsored by the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies and the China Association for Intercultural Communication.
• Founder, Institute for Intercultural Communication, housed in the Department of Communication and partially funded by the College of Arts and Sciences; the ultimate goal of this project is to create an informational web page and this will include the language, culture, and geography of China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Macao