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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Communicative practices"”.
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Writing ethnicity on the Internet : communicative practices of the Ukrainian virtual community
… constituted, negotiated, and reified through the practices of computer-mediated communication. The research centres on a specific ethnocultural formation: the Ukrainian diaspora. It analyzes the discursive formation of the InfoUkes mailing lists, a series of Web-based discussion lists accessible …
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Communicative practices in a bi-/multilingual, rural, fourth grade classroom in Kenya
… bilingual or multilingual speakers deploy their communicative practices, specifically in a fourth grade rural classroom in Kenya, and how the deployment of those resources affects knowledge construction and access to literacy. To do so, I draw on sociocultural (Bakhtin, 1981; Vygotsky, 1978) and …
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Art, outrage, dialogue: a McLuhan reading of three visual communicative practices in Cape Town public space
… social relevance in public visual communication practices. Instead of making a general statement or providing a value judgement, this research examines the nature of the debate surrounding public artistic practices by referring to three main artists; namely Michael Elion, The Tokolos Stencil …
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Lectures in transition : a study of communicative practices in the humanities in a South African university
… power. It asks how participants engage with the communicative practices in and around lectures. Conceptually the study is rooted in the academic literacies field within the New Literacy Studies with its interest in the politics of student access to valued textual practices. The study draws from …
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Communicative practices and situated identity : an analysis of strategies for accomplishing status and involvement in African-American community organizers' public talk and writing
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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Embracing Commonplace: Creating Ground for a Life of Rhetorically Engaged Civic Action
… educators encourage students to enact the communicative practices necessary for a life of rhetorically engaged civic action? In responding to this question, the academic field of communication studies is recognized as a site for implementing the lessons of rhetoric, democracy, and civic …
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A Narrative of Uncertain Intent: Communication Ethics Literacy and FBI Counterterrorism Practices
… communication ethics bring to counterterrorism practices in this current moment? Following insights of communication ethics scholars that have come before, this work understands communication ethics as practices that yield social literacy about what matters to an other. This work adds to …
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CHINESE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ COCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN FRIENDSHIPS WITH DOMESTIC STUDENTS ON US CAMPUSES
… establishment. It highlighted co-cultural communicative practices that Chinese international students find effective in making intimate contacts with US students. Practical implications to US universities are also discussed.
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Exploring the relationship between women’s empowerment and the internet in China: potentials and constraints
… as a dynamic process that is shaped by a set of communicative practices. Focusing on female Chinese bloggers and women’s groups of different organisational types, this study aims to explore the respective ways in which these two types of women actors use the Internet with a view to examining …
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Educating for Democracy: Reviving Rhetoric in the General Education Curriculum
… inadequacies in current educational theories and practices that have evolved over centuries of curricular, cultural, and socioeconomic change. Current theories and practices in higher education, specifically general education, reflect a misunderstanding of both the purpose of education in a …
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Chinese norms of relationship and communication: An exploration of four folk concepts
… within which patterns of relationships and communicative practices can be understood from the natives' perspectives. Also emphasized is the continuity of Chinese cultural traditions, as these folk concepts inhere much traditional Chinese cultural values and continue to direct natives' …
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Beyond the Brandopolis: A Communicative Approach to City Promotion and Marketing
… a city's image. The consideration of a communicative approach to the promotion of city images, from a humanities perspective grounds stakeholders' experiences of the city in their communicative practices. This grounded communicative approach to city marketing offers marketers better …
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Enhancing Chinese EFL Learners' Oral English Through Multimedia
… and offers specific ways for teachers to use communicative practices in the English classroom. Based on Communicative Language Learning, this project uses many authentic materials, like videos, speaking activities, which could help develop students’ oral proficiencies. The discussion …
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Understanding the Social Identity of Homeless Youth: A Visual Analysis of Experience
… these youths' identities are influenced by their communicative practices as well as how their identities influence their communication within and outside their social group. Using a combination of observations, participatory photography and in-depth interviews, the current study seeks to …
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The Creative Feud of Andy Warhol: A Philosophy of Communication Ethics
… uniting background narratives with foreground communicative practices (<em>Philosophy </em>xi). This dissertation positions Andy Warhol as a hypermodern communicative prophet. Through his life, works, and human communication, Warhol utilized art to communicate embedded ethical questions, …
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Women's Textile Graffiti: An Aesthetic Staging of Public/Private Dichotomies
… valorization of the artifacts, values, and communicative practices that are associated with the private sphere of the home.</p>
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Ideologias de linguagem na formação de professores: uma etnografia com estudantes guineenses de letras-língua portuguesa no Brasil
… attributed to language use in the situated practices of these students. The discussion is situated within the field of Applied Linguistics and draws upon critical sociolinguistic perspectives that explore the relationship between language and the globalized political economy (Heller, 2010; …
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The measurement of organizational identification and organizational commitment found among the membership of Mary Kay Cosmetics
… and behaviors. This study further offers two key communicative practices and behaviors; the utilization of a print medium and the adoption of a communicative philosophy, which may contribute to the individual's higher identification and commitment to the organization. This investigation suggests …
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K-Pop Girlies: an Investigation into Photocard Collecting
… long been ignored in academic spaces as their practices are seen as temporal, with effects limited to the fleeting nature of youth and popular culture. This qualitative thesis seeks to understand who K-pop girlies are and how their engagement in fandom spaces, including collecting photocards, …
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Hip hop and Literacy in the Lives of Two Students in a Transitional English Course
… of Hip hop to readings, writings and other communicative practices, of students who placed into transitional college English courses? The impetus for the study came from the importance that Hip hop has in the lives of young people (Smitherman, 1997). The participants in this study, Dionne …
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