塔比瑟哈特
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Current Research Activities
What do you do when you are a newcomer in a cultural group, and you must find your 道路? From the perspective of an ethnographer of communication, 一个 of the most effective strategies you can take is to go from the inside out. Start by immersing yourself in your new cultural environment. Be observant as you participate in daily life, watch what happens, ask questions, carefully document what you see and hear. 最重要的是, pay very close attention to people’s communication to inductively learn vital information about the culture, including local norms, premises, rules, symbols, speech acts, and 演讲活动. My current research introduces people to the Ethnography of Communication (EC) and speech codes theory (SCT) approach, an empirically tested interpretive theoretical/methodological toolkit for exploring any culture, broadly defined, from the inside out.
Research 连接s to Current 事件
Even if we never travel further than our own neighborhoods, all of us will necessarily be cultural sojourners at many points in our lives, faced with navigating new cultural 环境. Such moments include leaving high school for college; transitioning from an undergraduate to a graduate program (or going from an MA to a PhD program); starting a new job or joining a new company; moving to a different neighborhood, city, or state; becoming part of a new team, club, organization, family, circle of friends, or any other type of group, whether physical or virtual, online or offline; or undergoing a change in identity or status. In fact, regardless of our age, background, discipline, or experience, we can all anticipate having to find our 道路 in a new culture again 一次又一次. For this reason, we can all benefit from having a toolkit to help us (and others) successfully navigate a culture, broadly defined, that we are unfamiliar with.
Personal 连接s to Research
My RSCA was born out of my own experience, education, and training in the art of navigating 文化. In between stints of graduate school, I spent roughly seven years teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in places where I was an absolute newcomer, including Japan, the Czech Republic, and Germany. Like my students, I was a foreign language learner attempting to master the mechanics of the languages spoken around me. 然而, my language teaching and language learning experiences illustrated that simply using the right words or applying the correct grammar wasn’t enough. 没有理解 the local unspoken expectations and rules undergirding communication, competency wasn’t 可能的. This experience inspired me to pursue first an M.A. 然后是Ph值.D. in 沟通研究, focusing specifically on inter/cultural communication. 沿着 the 道路 I was mentored by a renowned ethnographer of communication who taught me that, with the right tools in hand, any of us can use rigorous, interpretive fieldwork to study communication and understand the different 文化, broadly defined, that we 找到我们自己的一部分. One of my objectives as a researcher/practiti一个r is to put those tools into readers’ hands.
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