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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Ethnography of Communication"”.
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Communication as a resource for Latin American immigrant settlement in the United States: An ethnography of communication
… the uses and meanings (Hymes, 1972/1986) of various metacommunicative terms, or "talk about talk" (Philipsen, 1992, p. 72) of a speech community. This speech community is comprised of Latin American immigrants residing in the United States and the staff members who serve them at an …
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And Now I'm Here: An Ethnography of Communication Inquiry into Asking for Help Practices at a Homeless Shelter'
At a particular faith-based nonprofit homeless shelter located in metropolitan area in the Southwest region of the United States, here called the Little City, this ethnography of communication used one hundred hours of observation, eighteen interviews and two social artifacts to reveal the complex …
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VIRTUALLY PRESENT: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION LOOK AT THE SHAPING OF SOCIAL RULES IN SMALL GROUP INTERACTIONS MEDIATED BY MOBILE DEVICES
In this study I describe the communication rules that inform how particular bar patrons use mobile device technologies to shape particular types of small groups. Mobile devices have increasing been naturalized into the communicative landscape and the effects of this need to be explored. I focus on …
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"""There's a Word From the Lord Today"": A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Sermons in Context"
… as texts produced within contexts are revealing of the ways in which complex systems of knowledge and belief are shared and indexed by members of a congregation, and they also represent specific instantiations of broader cultural, religious, and historical contexts. In this study, sermons, and …
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A study of intercultural discourse between mainland Chinese speakers of English and Anglo-Australians
Intercultural communication between mainland Chinese speakers of English and Anglo-Australians is receiving ever-increasing attention in many fields. These fields include intercultural communication. English language teaching, education and business. This study approached the intercultural …
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Monstrosities, Money, & Machines: A Metaphoric Analysis of Fantasy Football as a Social World
In this study, the world of fantasy football is examined through the lens of the ethnography of communication and the utilization of metaphor/cluster analysis. Fantasy football has emerged as a highly popular sports-related activity and has become a multi-million dollar industry. By analyzing two …
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“They probably got us all on the news”: Personal Narratives and Public Trauma in Post-Katrina New Orleans
Although stories and images of suffering during Hurricane Katrina saturated public discourse in 2005, the fundamental failures of communication that characterize this catastrophe remain undertheorized—especially the ease with which some stories have been accepted and others ignored. My dissertation …
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(Im)politeness in email communication: how English speakers and Chinese speakers negotiate meanings and develop intercultural (mis)understandings
… this thesis contributes to the discussions of intercultural communication in relation to the negotiation of (im)politeness meaning. From a pedagogic perspective, the thesis reveals the potential for using email to experience culture as a process of meaning negotiation and construction and …
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"Discourse analysis: A comparison of business journalism style of ""The Wall Street Journal"" and ""The Nation"""
… More specifically, business journalism style of The Wall Street Journal, an American English newspaper, and The Nation, a Thai English newspaper, is analyzed to determine whether there are variety-specific differences in Business English. The comparison is based on selected syntactic features, …
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Writing under the gun : a multimodal analysis of technical trouble tickets as an itext genre
Based on a multimodal approach combining elements of ethnographic participant/observer methodology, rhetorical genre analysis, and corpus analysis, this study examines trouble ticket discourse as a genre of digital communication (IText), interpreting the findings through the lens of 18 months the …
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Children's voices: The contribution of informal language practices to the negotiation of knowledge and identity amongst 10-12 year old school pupils
… practices contribute to their negotiations of knowledge and identity. An ethnographic study of 10-12 year olds' talk in and around school was carried out, which included the collection of continuous tape-recordings of talk across the school day, observation and recording of literacy …
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The appropriation and mastery of cultural tools in computer supported collaborative literacy practices
The main focus of this thesis is how language is used to construct knowledge in social interaction. A more specific aim is the investigation of the strategies of British primary school children for constructing multimodal electronic documents, and in particular for constructing collaboratively …
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(Re)mixin’ & flowin’: Examining the literacy practices of African American language speakers in an elementary two-way immersion bilingual program
… In this study, I problematize the notion of TWI programs as an additive program for AAL speakers by investigating the phenomenon from three critical frameworks that ungirded the study: Critical Race Theory (CRT) (Ladson-Billings & Tate, 1995), Raciolinguistics (Alim, Rickford, & Ball, …
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CENSURED MOTHERHOOD: COMMUNICATING THE DOUBLE BIND BETWEEN MOTHERHOOD AND THE PROFESSORIATE
… study revealed the interpersonal networks and communication resources available to women who are both mothers and professors in a large university in the southwestern United States. The current study was an inquiry using approaches from the ethnography of communication (EOC), which holds that …
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Towards a Multilingual Future: The Ecology of Language at a University in Eastern Ukraine
… alternated in policy and practice in their official status and social prestige. As in many areas of the world, English is emerging in Ukraine as a language of economic value, social prestige, and education though it is not a language of wider communication. The goal of the research was to …
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Conceptual Metaphor in the Health Care Culture
… gives rise to the conceptualization. The purpose of this study was to investigate the interaction of cognition (conceptual metaphor) and culture as manifest during intercultural communication in teaching-learning sessions between health care providers and patients. An ethnography of communication …
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Facebook as Transnational Space: Language and Identity among 1.5 and Second Generation Mexicans in Chicago
… documents a two-year ethnographic study of a Mexican-origin transnational network members’ engagement with each other via Facebook. By focusing on four emic criteria – language, skin color, transnationalism, and culture display and practice – this project examines the ways in which …
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Tensions in (Agri)Culture: The Negotiation of Environmental Dialectics at an Urban Farmers Market'
… and serve to create and sustain the culture of an urban farmers market. Using theories of cultural communication as both theoretical grounding and methodology, the author was able to identify and interpret the functions of tensions previously presented by scholars in the field of …
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IDENTITY MANAGEMENT POLITICS IN GLOCALIZED ENGLISH HEGEMONY: CULTURAL STRUGGLES, FACEWORK STRATEGIES, AND INTERCULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS IN TAIWANESE ENGLISH EDUCATION
<p>The globalization of the English language has rendered both positive and negative impacts to countries around the world. With the ever-increasing pervasiveness of the English language, many non-native-English-speaking (NNES hereafter) people and countries have shown growing interests in teaching …
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A critical analysis of the Kiba (song-dance-drama) discourse
1 Aim The aim of the research is to map out the theoretical construct of Kiba from practice. The analysis includes the mapping out of the metalanguage of the theory used by its practitioners. Therefore the research will map out a theory of Kiba not as a generic hypothetical theory of music and …