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Communicating Ethnicity: A Phenomenological Analysis Of Constructed Identity, Laura L. Pierson
Communicating Ethnicity: A Phenomenological Analysis Of Constructed Identity, Laura L. Pierson
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This dissertation uses phenomenology, along with a constructionist framework, to explore the ways an ethnic community in central Texas constructs and communicates its cultural identity. The first goal of this study (RQ1) was to describe how the people of Norse, Texas experience ethnicity. The second goal of this study (RQ2) was to discover how this ethnicity was communicatively constructed and maintained. The third goal of this study (RQ3) was to learn how the relationship between ethnic identity and communication contributes to the creation of shared meanings within the community. The fourth goal (RQ4) of this study was to describe the …