collection: Selected works of Donal Carbaugh

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Dialogue in Cross-cultural Perspective: Deciphering Communication Codes

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  • – In this chapter, we take a very preliminary look at several expressive systems in order to ask: Is there something like "dialogue" in each, as a concept and practice. We explore the expressive systems-in-use both the relevant terms in several languages AND the practices being referenced with those terms. The analyses focus on Blackfeet, Chinese, Finnish, and Hungarian expressive systems. We find that the systems, considered together, reveal a wide variety of possibilities that are active when "dialogue" is mentioned, and translated. The analyses we present follow a general program of inquiry in ethnographic studies of communication generally, and cross-cultural communication in particular (see Carbaugh, 1990; Scollon and Scollon, 1995). Our methodology is a version of speech codes theory (Philipsen, 19997), and cultural discourse analysis (Carbaugh, 1996, 2005; Carbaugh, Gibson, and Milburn, 1995), focusing specifically on"dialogue"as a cultural term for talk and pragmatic action (Carbaugh, 1989).
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  • – 2006-01-01
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  • – application/pdf

From Cognitive Dichotomies to Cultural Discourses: Hofstede, Fougere and Moulettes in Conversation

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  • – This article reviews criticisms of Geert Hofstede's research, critically assesses those criticisms, explores the different models of communication and culture being used, discusses how each addresses different intellectual problems, then proposes a view of communication and culture that extends each respective approach.
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  • – 2007-04-05
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  • – application/pdf

Six Basic Principles in the Communication of Identities: The special case of discourses and illness.

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  • – This article reviews four pieces of research which focus on conversation and illness. Each is published in a special theme issue of the journal, Communication&Medicine. The review is organized to demonstrate several general points: That communication practice is finely and systematically structured; that structures in communication serve to identify people as members of some social categories rather than others; that movement among these categories is immanent in shifts of communication practices and structures; that relations among people are negotiated through such structuring and shifting of communication resources; and that these patterns of practice are active in socially occasioned, and culturally distinctive ways, from clinical scenes of interaction to the scenes of routine everyday life.
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  • – 2007-03-26
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  • – application/pdf

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