KULTURMØDER TIL FORHANDLING: Betydningen af ‘kultur’ i praktiksamtaler med voksne med dansk som andetsprog

Abstract

The article demonstrates how the combination of discursive psychology and

conversation analysis enables an examination of culture as a product of discursive

processes which are influenced and permeated by a broader social, discursive

and cultural context. In this way an understanding is presented of cultural

encounters as something which is not only determined by the background of the

participants but is a product of interaction and the resources used in the negotiation

of meaning and identity. The article is based on research of internship interviews,

that is, interactions between Danish employers and adult second language speakers

seeking an internship placement. Through examples from these interviews, it is

argued that culture can be analyzed by combining a micro-perspective on the

negotiation and organization of meaning in interaction with a macro-perspective

on interactions as a manifestation of a broader social, discursive and cultural

practice and organization.