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Mary Jane Collier brings together essays that address issues such as how culture and discourse are related. It examines how people with varied cultural identities draw their boundaries and create distinctiveness through their communication with one another, and presents timely and relevant research on cultural difference as a contemporary social problem. The contributors to this volume represent a variety of cultural groups, and their discussions reflect a diverse array of perspectives on discourse analysis, ranging from localized, situated interpretations of group members' in-group dialogues to informed analyses of public images and texts. The content of this work demonstrates that research on discourse and culture is relevant to the dynamic global and sociocultural environment.
List of contents
Constituting Cultural Difference Through Discourse - Mary Jane Collier
Current Research Themes of Politics, Perspectives, and Problematics
Challenging the Myth of Assimilation - Lisa A Flores
A Chicana Feminist Response
Enacting "Puerto Rican Time" in the United States - Trudy Milburn
When Rhetorical Theory and Practice Encounter Postcolonialism - Marouf Hasian Jr
Rethinking the Meaning of Farrakhan and the Million Man March Address
Negotiating Societal Stereotypes - Mark P Orbe, Kiesha T Warren and Nancy C Cornwell
Analyzing
The Real World Discourse by and about African American Men
Media and Colonialism - Raka Shome
Race, Rape, and "Englishness" in
The Jewel in the Crown Similar or Different? - Yoko Nadamitsu, Ling Chen and Gustav Friedrich
The Chinese Experience of Japanese Culture
Exploring the Communication/Culture Connection - Yumiko Yokochi and Bradford ¿J¿ Hall
A Comparison of Japanese and American Discourse
Interclass Travel, Cultural Adaptation, and "Passing" as a Disjunctive Inter/Cultural Practice - Dreama Moon
Discursive Construction of Differences - Jolanta A Drzewiecka
Ethnic Immigrant Identities and Distinction
A Face-Driven Account of Identity Exchanges in Israeli-Palestinian "Dialogue" Events - Yael-Janette Zupnik
"In the Beginning..." - Rivka Ribak
Israeli Jews and Arabs Construct Intifadas and Selves
About the author
Mary Jane Collier (Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1982) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Communication Studies, School of Communication, at the University of Denver. Her research interests focus on such cultural identities and discourses across multiple contexts. Her work appears in such journals as: Communication Monographs, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Communication Quarterly, and Howard Journal of Communication, and in various scholarly books and texts.
