Plages for speaking in teamsterville

Communication and cultural interpretation

“…This work is informed by many others. See for examples the earlier articles in this journal by Bauman (1970), Philipsen (1975Philipsen ( , 1976Philipsen ( , 1986, and Huspek & Kendall (1991); Philipsen's (1987Philipsen's ( , 1989 papers; the chapters in a reader on the subject (Carbaugh, 1990b); the recent review by Leeds-Hurwitz (1990); and the bibliography of such studies (Philipsen and Carbaugh, 1986).…”

Placing Lincoln and Mitchell counties: A cultural study

“…Constructing symbolic place creates identity, social relationships, value structures, and appropriate ways of acting (Brown & Perkins, 1992;Cohen, 1985;Peterson & Horton, 1995;Philipsen, 1976;Philipsen, 1992). As individuals symbolize place, their constructions cluster with those of others, creating community boundaries and cultural images.…”

“…Philipsen (1992) explains this process through his Teamsterville study: "By the time I left [Teamsterville], it was, for me, not just a setting, but a scene, a place suffused with activity, with meaning, with significance ... for those who had grown up there and those who lived there permanently" (p. 4). Indeed, Philipsen (1976) found that "a sense of place-at once both hierarchical and physical-is a'major unifying perception'in [Teamsterville's] cultural worldview" (p. 16).…”

Scholarly communities and the discipline of the communication discipline

“…Where are the descendant studies of Philipsen's (1976Philipsen's ( , 1975 Teamsterville? Philipsen's descriptions seemingly opened up a rich realm for communicative study, but blue collar life in the United States is not cool, so it is frequently avoided.…”