Supporting Mexican immigrants’ resettlement in the United States: an ethnography of communication approach to building allies’ communication competence

Kvam, Dani S.

doi:10.1080/00909882.2016.1248469

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“…There are, however, notable exceptions. Kvam's (2017) ethnography of the means and meanings of communicative competence for Mexican speakers and Shefner-Rogers et al's (1998) study of women dairy farmers in India, which showed that "dialogic communication process can increase feelings of empowerment" (p. 322) by giving people voice and the ability to listen to others. Aside from a handful of studies, therefore, scholars have very little understanding of (a) how people living in poverty think and reflect on the nature of communication competency, (b) how they think about communication as a practice, and (c) how they might develop their communication competence over time.…”

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Qualitative Changes in Communication Competency Among Women in Bihar, India: Heifer International’s Impact on Personal Transformation

Mirivel

Thombre

Bensel

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AM J QUALITATIVE RES

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<i>The United Nation (UN) lists ending poverty in all its forms as the number one prerogative among seventeen sustainable development goals. One organization that is seeking to make an impact on those who live in poverty is Heifer International, a global nonprofit organization based in the United States, whose mission is “to end world hunger and poverty while caring for the Earth.” By using Values-Based Holistic Community Development, Heifer has helped to lift millions of people out of poverty. In this article, we present the results of a study we conducted in Bihar, India to assess the impact of Heifer International programming on participants’ communication competency. Grounded in over 100 interviews with women across four time periods, the results show that women who have partnered with Heifer International experience significant qualitative changes in communication competency across five areas: expressiveness, assertiveness, persuasiveness, openness, and positiveness. We discuss the implications of this work on communication competency and empowerment for women living in poverty and its impact on personal transformation. </i>

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Qualitative Changes in Communication Competency Among Women in Bihar, India: Heifer International’s Impact on Personal Transformation

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Bensel

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“…Especially, the pronoun of the first-person plural ('we') receives a lot of attention in these times of division in which the need is felt to define groups and memberships. Kvam (2017) associates the communication competence with the EOC while supporting Mexican immigrant settlement in United States of America and it proved to be effective.…”

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Ethnography of communication: An analysis of Turkish education ministerâ€™s speechon innovations

Karanfil

2020

GJFLT

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Ethnography of communication (EOC)is an approach to discourse research that investigates the sequential organisation of talk as a way of accessing participants’ understandings of and collaborative means of organising the forms of social interaction. The objective of the current research is to explore the speech of the education minister and how he uses his language indirectly talking on solid innovations. The sample online recordings of the education minister are transcribed in close detail to allow for a fine analysis of the design, exchange and coordination of actions within the delivery of new implementations. This article will introduce intellectual foundations of discourse analysis, outline its approach to data collection and transcription, illustrate its analytical procedures and discuss the application of EOC in the education minister’s speech while addressing the teachers. The results suggest that the use of indirectness and implicit speech-making strategies fosters the politeness act in public speech. We can conclude that the politician’s speech delivered to the public may be researched more and it might be a part of discourse competence for English language learners. The future direction of EOC may focus on a transnational context by comparing the different countries and education minister’s speech which may help English teachers to teach culture and spoken discourse better. Keywords: Ethnography of communication, educational leadership, discourse, speech community, speech event

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“…From the 1960s to the present, the sojourner has been studied in global business (Black & Gregersen, 1990;Hammer & Martin, 1992;Lanier, 1979), education (Czerwionka, Artamonova, & Barbosa, 2015;Keppie, Lindberg, & Thomason, 2016;Kristjansdottir, 2009), and international aid (Crabtree, 1998;Leeds-Hurwitz, 1990;Kvam, 2017;Paige & Martin, 1996).…”

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Intercultural crisis communication: examining the experiences of crisis sojourners

Pyle

2018

Journal of Applied Communication Research

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Intercultural Crisis Communication: Examining the Experiences of Crisis Sojourners In the twenty-first century, crises occurring anywhere on earth may become contexts for massive, intercultural rescue and recovery operations. Natural and manmade disasters often require the coordinated efforts of multiple, culturally-diverse actors. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that killed an estimated 228,000 people and left more than 2 million homeless drew emergency responders from dozens of countries (Kweifio-Okai, 2014). This response required extensive coordination and cross-cultural communication efforts from individuals and organizations with differing languages, norms, beliefs, and practices. Cultural challenges are a consideration for domestic responses as well. For example, Hurricane Sandy required the coordinated efforts of responders from across the United States. Despite the shared national heritage of those responding to Hurricane Sandy, there were a variety of cultural conflicts that hampered response and recovery efforts (Nir, 2012). Emergency response efforts present opportunities for cultural misunderstandings between the host culture and responders. Both crisis communication and intercultural communication require mindful, reflective decision-making (Langer, 1989). At the same time, the demands of both contexts make ineffective communication likely (Fleming, 1995; Hermann, 1963). Because business and personal life now occur in a global context, emergencies, disasters, and crises are likely to worsen if their intercultural communication dimensions are not carefully considered. It is therefore important to explore intercultural crisis communication for the pragmatic benefit this study offers. Additionally, it may be the case that crises, by their very nature, function as lenses on essential communication problems. These contexts lay bare the fundamental tensions in all communication situations. Mistakes made during crises are intensified by the crisis context, and 3 are more visible than mistakes occurring outside of a crisis. The additional dimension of crosscultural communication can create the potential to greatly exacerbate a crisis situation. The purpose of this research is to study intercultural crisis communication by engaging with individuals who work in crisis settings across a variety of cultural contexts. This study consists of 20 qualitative interviews with emergency responders who work both domestically and abroad. By soliciting these responders' stories, I was able to gain a sense of the dynamics of effective and ineffective intercultural crisis communication. In the following section I review relevant literature. Next, I review the method for the current study. Then, I present the results, discussion, and implications for future research in this area. Contextual Tensions in Intercultural and Crisis Communication Both intercultural communication and crisis communication share a tension that Langer (1989) might call a "premature cognitive commitment" (p. 22). According to Langer, this...

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Supporting Mexican immigrants’ resettlement in the United States: an ethnography of communication approach to building allies’ communication competence

Cited by 11 publications

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Qualitative Changes in Communication Competency Among Women in Bihar, India: Heifer International’s Impact on Personal Transformation

Qualitative Changes in Communication Competency Among Women in Bihar, India: Heifer International’s Impact on Personal Transformation

Ethnography of communication: An analysis of Turkish education ministerâ€™s speechon innovations

Intercultural crisis communication: examining the experiences of crisis sojourners

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