Donal Carbaugh

Discursive reflexivity in the ethnography of communication: Cultural Discourse Analysis

Donal Carbaugh et al. — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:11:36 PDT

This article is a creative reconstruction of reflexivity as it operates for some practitioners of the ethnography of communication. Our central concern is conceptualized as “discursive reflexivity”; with that concept, we foreground communication both as primary data and as our primary theoretical concern. As a result, we treat reflexivity as a process of metacommunication, that is, as a reflexive process of using discourse at one level to discuss discourse on another. Following current and past research, we explore how dimensions of discursive reflexivity differently configure into five types of ethnographic practice, these being theoretical, descriptive, interpretive, comparative, and critical inquiry. Each is discussed as analytically distinct from the others, yet all coalesce experientially or, in other words, all coexist in one’s experience as an ethnographer. Relationships are discussed between discursive reflexivity and self-reflexivity, including various modes of ethnographic reporting and future directions for inquiry.

Dialogue in Cross-cultural Perspective: Japanese, Korean, and Russian Discourses

Donal Carbaugh et al. — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:07:52 PDT

The cultural forms and meanings of "dialogue," as a domain, is examined in Japanese, Korean, and Russian.

Distinctive Qualities in Communication Research

Donal Carbaugh — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 09:45:55 PST

Which Place, What Story?: Cultural Discourses at the Border of the Blackfeet Reservation and Glacier National Park

Donal Carbaugh et al. — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 09:41:03 PST

Among every known people, places are named, and in every known place, stories are told. Yet as one place, Jerusalem, makes so abundantly clear, the meanings of the place and the variety of stories attached to it can derive from a variety of traditions and can lead in many different directions. Just as various pilgrims are drawn to some sacred places, so do all people, in all places, come to know the meanings of at least some places through names, with the stories about them capturing their deeper significance, from the sacred to the mundane. Yet for each such place, it is possible for its names and stories to vary. Names for places change; stories about them get revised, discarded, or created anew. At times, this variation ("Are we now in the Old or the New Jerusalem?") can be a source of stress and strain, as a single place can be identified in different ways, each with its own story to tell, with each story advancing different ways of living there. And thus, as places are identified through their names and stories, they become known, sometimes in very different ways, carrying various meanings about proper living, from the peoples of the Middle East, to the Great Plains of America.

Putting Policy in its Place through Cultural Discourse Analysis

Donal Carbaugh — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:02:32 PST

The Social and Cultural Realization of Diversity: An interview with Donal Carbaugh

Donal Carbaugh — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:22:17 PST

Ethnographic Perspectives on Culture and Communication

Donal Carbaugh — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:16:25 PDT

Toward a Perspective on Cultural Communication and Intercultural Contact

Donal Carbaugh — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:35:16 PDT

Cultural Communication and Intercultural Contact

Donal Carbaugh — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:24:59 PDT

Cultures in Conversation

Donal Carbaugh — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:21:24 PDT

Narrative and Identity

Donal Carbaugh — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:19:19 PDT

Situating Selves: The Communication of Social Identites in American Scenes

Donal Carbaugh — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:17:33 PDT

Cultural Communication and Intercultural Contact

Donal Carbaugh — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:13:19 PDT

Talking American: Cultural Discourses on DONAHUE

Donal Carbaugh — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:05:54 PDT

Ethnography of Communication

Donal Carbaugh — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:34:43 PDT

Cultural Discourse Analysis: Communication Practices and Intercultural Encounters

Donal Carbaugh — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:43:58 PDT

The field of intercultural communication has been criticized for failing to produce studies which focus on actual practices of communication, especially of intercultural encounters. Of particular interest have been cultural analyses of social interactions, as well as analyses of the intercultural dynamics that are involved in those interactions. This article addresses these concerns by presenting a framework for the cultural analysis of discourse that has been presented and used in previous literature(e.g., Carbaugh, 1988a, 1990, 2005; Carbaugh, Gibson, and Milburn, 1997). Indebted to the ethnography of communication (Hymes, 1972), and interpretive anthropology (Geertz, 1973), this particular analytic procedure is one implementation of the theory of communication codes (Carbaugh, 2005; Philipsen, 1997; Philipsen, Coutu, and Covarrubias, 2005). As such, it takes communication to be not only its primary data but moreover, its primary theoretical concern. The framework responds to specific research questions, addresses particular kinds of intellectual problems, includes five investigative modes, and uses a special set of concepts. In this essay, each of the modes is discussed as analytically distinct, yet as complementary to the others, including theoretical, descriptive, interpretive, comparative, and critical analyses. Special attention is given to the interpretive mode and to intercultural interactions as a site for the application and development of cultural discourse analysis.

Donal Carbaugh [An Interview]

Donal Carbaugh — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:47:16 PDT

Some Distinctive Features of U.S. American Conversation

Donal Carbaugh — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:25:03 PDT

Six Basic Principles in the Communication of Identities: The special case of discourses and illness.

Donal Carbaugh — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:25:02 PDT

This article reviews four pieces of research which focus on conversation and illness. Each is published in a special theme issue of the journal, Communication & Medicine. The review is organized to demonstrate several general points: That communication practice is finely and systematically structured; that structures in communication serve to identify people as members of some social categories rather than others; that movement among these categories is immanent in shifts of communication practices and structures; that relations among people are negotiated through such structuring and shifting of communication resources; and that these patterns of practice are active in socially occasioned, and culturally distinctive ways, from clinical scenes of interaction to the scenes of routine everyday life.

Coding Personhood Through Cultural Terms and Practices: Silence and Quietude as a Finnish "Natural Way of Being"

Donal Carbaugh et al. — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:25:01 PDT