Communicative Competence and Local Theories of Argumentation

Reijven, Menno H.; Townsend, Rebecca M.

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“…The structure of town meeting allows for play to preserve the humanity of the community. Crable's (2006) consideration of character armor as a way to alleviate anxiety in interactions, Ivie's (2017) notion of contingent identities, and Sawyer's (2012) observation of identities' and social relations' fluidity all find a place in town meeting discourse, discourse within a particular locally constituted situation (Reijven & Townsend, 2021). Town meeting provides the space for contingent identities, based on the specific motion under deliberation.…”

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New England Town Meeting and the Cultivation of Deliberative Play

Townsend

Milburn

2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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Participants of New England town meeting must follow protocols to participate in this direct democratic process. Over the past 200 years, the protocols have been enacted and adapted by participants in small towns across the region. Within annual meetings, one can find small breaches that could be interpreted as playful acts. In this paper, we use the comic frame as a theoretical lens to interpret instances of such play within the rhetorical deliberation of one New England town meeting. We analyze two instances where speakers playfully use recognized parts of town meeting to achieve their rhetorical ends. We conclude with a discussion of the way play can help accomplish identification in public discourse.

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New England Town Meeting and the Cultivation of Deliberative Play

Townsend

Milburn

2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…Ethnography of Communication scholars thus treat observable units of communication as expressions of an a priori system of such symbols and meanings, or a culture (Philipsen, 1997). Culture as a presupposed entity is assumed to be intersubjective (Reijven & Townsend, 2021) – i.e., to exist as shared knowledge within the brains of participants in a given speech community. Anything an actor does or says can thus be interpreted as a display of their general capacity to (mis)use symbols in relation to norms.…”

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A Rational Solution to the Debate on the Critical Voice in Ethnography of Communication Research

Shavit¹

2023

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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This article proposes a way to transcend the debate on the critical voice in Ethnography of Communication (EOC) and qualitative communication research more broadly. First, it demonstrates how EOC’s epistemological paradigm may prevent ethnographers from understanding their subjects fully. Secondly, the article offers a Weberian approach to rational interpretation as a resolution, replacing the concept of “culture” as an a priori explanandum with “practical rationality”. This move demonstrates the feasibility of a unified method in the social sciences capable of dismantling the artificial divide between interpretive and post-positivist philosophies and research designs. Finally, the article provides an illustration of the proposed approach based on some ethnographic data from a volunteer setting of open-source civic software production in Israel.

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Communicative Competence and Local Theories of Argumentation

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New England Town Meeting and the Cultivation of Deliberative Play

New England Town Meeting and the Cultivation of Deliberative Play

A Rational Solution to the Debate on the Critical Voice in Ethnography of Communication Research

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