COMMUNICATION, CULTURE & SOCIETY

Readings

There are two chapters assigned for each week of class. Your familiarity with the readings will be tracked by the ways you bring them into class discussions and into the group project.

August 22.

Rosaldo, Renate. 1990. "Introduction: Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage." Culture & Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis, pp. 1–21. Boston: Beacon Press.

Clifford, James. 1986. "Introduction: Partial Truths." In Writing Culture: The Poetics & Politics of Ethnography, pp. 1–26. Ed. James Clifford & George E. Marcus. Berkeley: University of California Press.

August 29.

Hofstede, Geert. 1980. "Values and Culture," and "Integrating the Four Dimensions." Culture’s Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values, pp. 13–38, 211–31. Abridged Ed. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Nakayama, Thomas K. 1994. "Show/down Time: ‘Race’, Gender, Sexuality, and Popular Culture." Critical Studies in Mass Communication 11: 16279.

Sept. 7.

Tajfel, H., and J. C. Turner. 1986. "The Social Identity Theory of Intergroup Behavior." in Psychology & Intergroup Relations, pp. 7–24. Ed. Stephen Worchel & William G. Austin. Chicago: Nelson-Hall.

Katriel, Tamar. 1994. "Sites of Memory: Discourses of the Past in Israeli Pioneering Settlement Museums." Quarterly Journal of Speech 80.1 (February): 1–20.

Sept. 19.

Bellah, Robert N., Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swindler, and Steven M. Tipton. 1985. "Transforming American Culture." Habits of the Heart: Individualism & Commitment in American Life, pp. 275–96. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Keenan, Elinor. 1974. "Norm-Makers, Norm-Breakers: Uses of Speech by Men and Women in Malagasy Community." In Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking, pp. 125–43. Ed. R. Bauman & J. Sherzer. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press.

Sept. 26.

Apitzsch, Gisela, and Norbert Dittmar. 1987. "Contact Between German and Turkish Adolescents." In Analyzing Intercultural Communication, pp. 51–72. Ed. Karlfried Knapp, Werner Enninger, & Annelie Knapp-Potthoff. Studies in Anthropological Linguistics 1. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Van Dijk, Teun A. 1987. "The Social and Ideological Context of Prejudice Reproduction." Communicating Racism, pp. 345–82. Newbury Park: Sage.

Oct. 3.

Lalljee, Mansur. 1987. "Attribution Theory and Intercultural Communication." In Analyzing Intercultural Communication, pp. 37–50. Ed. Karlfried Knapp, Werner Enninger, & Annelie Knapp-Potthoff. Studies in Anthropological Linguistics 1. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Shah, Hemant, and Michael C. Thornton. 1994. "Racial Ideology in U.S. Mainstream News Magazine Coverage of Black-Latino Interaction, 1980–1992." Critical Studies in Mass Communication 11: 141–61.

Oct. 17.

Whorf, Benjamin L. 1956. "Language, Mind, and Reality." Language, Thought, & Reality, pp. 246–70. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Bruner, Edward M., and Phyllis Gorfain. 1984. "Dialogic Narration and the Paradoxes of Masada." In Text, Play, & Story: The Construction & Reconstruction of Self and Society, pp. 56–79. Ed. Edward M. Bruner. Prospects Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press.

Oct. 24.

Hall, Edward T. 1983. ÒMonochronic and Polychronic Time.Ó Readings on Communicating with Strangers, pp. 187Ð91. New York: McGraw-Hill.

———. 1977. "Context and Meaning." Beyond Culture, pp. 85–103. New York: Doubleday.

Oct. 31.

Kochman, Thomas. 1981. "Force Fields in Black and White Communication." Black & White Styles in Conflict, pp. 106–29. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Basso, K. L. 1972. "Social Class, Language, and Socialization." In Language & Social Context, pp. 67–86. Ed. Pier Paulo Giglioli. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Nov. 9.

Victor, David A. 1992. "Issues of Authority Conception in International Business Communication." International Business Communication, pp. 169–182. New York: Harper-Collins.

Gumperz, John J. 1982. "Interethnic Communication." Discourse Strategies, pp. 172–86. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Nov. 16.

Bernstein, B. 1972. "Social Class, Language, and Socialization." In Language & Social Context, pp. 157–78. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.

Fitch, Kristine. 1990/91. "A Ritual for Attempting Leave-Taking in Colombia." Research on Language & Social Interaction 24: 209–24.

Nov. 28.

Katriel, Tamar, and Gerry Philipsen. 1981. "What We Need Is Communication: ‘Communication’ as a Cultural Category in Some American Speech." Communication Monographs 48.4: 301–17.

Leeds-Hurwitz, Wendy. 1990. "Notes in the History of Intercultural Communication: The Foreign Service Institute and the Mandate for Intercultural Training." Quarterly Journal of Speech 76: 262–81.