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- Title
Performing Cultural and Personal Identities through Talk.
- Authors
Chang, Yanrong
- Abstract
Culture and communication research has predominantly interested in exploring culture as a shaping force of individual behaviors (Gudykunst, 1998; Gudykunst, Ting-Toomey, & Chua, 1988; Philipsen, 1987, 1992) and how communication reflects and constructs cultural identities (Collier & Thomas, 1988; Philipsen, 2002; Ting-Toomey, & Chung, 2005). What is neglected is that communicators are also individual persons (Cargile, 2005; Martin & Nakayama, 1999) who develop personal styles of communication (Tracy, 2002). Such a bias has inadvertently led to cultural stereotyping and the elimination of individual differences in a cultural community. To redress this bias, this case study attempts to show, through a close analysis of a high school teacher's speech at a teacher-parent conference in China, how communicators perform both cultural and personal identities through talk. It discusses the dialectical relationship between culture and individuality in light of the concept of cultural threshold. Finally, the implications of the study are discussed.
- Subjects
CHINA; IDENTITY (Psychology); CULTURE; SPEECH act theory (Communication); PERSONALITY; INDIVIDUALITY
- Publication
China Media Research, 2011, Vol 7, Issue 3, p21
- ISSN
1556-889X
- Publication type
Article