/bunka/を「語る」ことの弁証法的問題(「コミュニケーション教育と異文化コミュニケーション研究」を再考する)

抄録

In this rejoinder article, I respond to the four articles that were written in response to my earlier response published in the Volume 21 of Speech Communication Education. Based on the critiques and suggestions offered by Ikeda, Kosaka, Kotani, and Yoshitake in this volume, I try to reiterate the dialectical problems associated with discourse about /bunka/ (culture). In the first part of my paper, I offer a definition of "discourse," and argue that the subject-object dialectics exist in discourse in general, and how discourses are all political. Based on these arguments, I then present self-reflexive accounts in writing this particular paper. The second part of my paper will specifically address the dialectical problems with discourse about /bunka/. I conclude my paper with an emphasis on the importance of examining how researchers are positioned in relation to /bunka/ in terms of their ontology and epistemology so that alternative ways of interpreting and symbolizing /bunka/ can be explored fully. Such effort to understand /bunka/ more fully should not only be encouraged as academic debates as my paper has done but also realized in research studies that directly examine real living /bunka/.