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2011

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Enthography of Communication

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Dialogue In Cross-Cultural Perspective: Japanese, Korean, And Russian Discourses, Donal Carbaugh, Elena V. Nuciforo, Makato Saito, Dong-Shin Shin Jan 2011

Dialogue In Cross-Cultural Perspective: Japanese, Korean, And Russian Discourses, Donal Carbaugh, Elena V. Nuciforo, Makato Saito, Dong-Shin Shin

Donal Carbaugh

The cultural forms and meanings of "dialogue," as a domain, is examined in Japanese, Korean, and Russian.


Discursive Reflexivity In The Ethnography Of Communication: Cultural Discourse Analysis, Donal Carbaugh, Elizabeth Molina-Markham, Elena V. Nuciforo, Brion Van Over Jan 2011

Discursive Reflexivity In The Ethnography Of Communication: Cultural Discourse Analysis, Donal Carbaugh, Elizabeth Molina-Markham, Elena V. Nuciforo, Brion Van Over

Donal Carbaugh

This article is a creative reconstruction of reflexivity as it operates for some practitioners of the ethnography of communication. Our central concern is conceptualized as “discursive reflexivity”; with that concept, we foreground communication both as primary data and as our primary theoretical concern. As a result, we treat reflexivity as a process of metacommunication, that is, as a reflexive process of using discourse at one level to discuss discourse on another. Following current and past research, we explore how dimensions of discursive reflexivity differently configure into five types of ethnographic practice, these being theoretical, descriptive, interpretive, comparative, and critical inquiry. …