Exploring the expectation-experience dynamics in academic sojourns.

The relationship between sojourner expectations and experiences has long interested intercultural researchers and trainers but has received limited attention recently – despite rising critical perspectives, growing concerns about essentialism, and renewed consideration of interculturality. To better understand the expectation–experience dynamics in academic sojourns, we applied Holliday's Grammar of Culture (GoC) to narratives from five Chinese international students at the start of their UK sojourns. Our analysis revealed three types of expectation–experience dynamics, potentially offering insights relevant to other forms of intercultural experience.<br/><br/>旅居者期望与经历之间的关系长期以来一直为跨文化研究者和培训师所关注。近年来, 尽管批判性视角日益增多, 对本质主义的担忧不断加剧, 跨文化性也重新受到审视, 但这一关系所得关注仍有限。为深入解析学术旅居中的期望-经历动态, 我们运用 Holliday 的 Grammar of Culture（GoC)，对五名中国留学生初抵英国时的叙事进行分析。这一分析揭示出三类期望-经历动态, 并可能也对其他形式的跨文化体验提供有价值的见解。