Papers by Suzanne Scollon
Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2006
This ambitious and rewarding book combines aspects of several genres. It is a methodological guid... more This ambitious and rewarding book combines aspects of several genres. It is a methodological guidebook, offering strategies for doing ethnography, discourse analysis and action research. It is an empirical report, describing the authors' use of email and other resources to improve Native Alaskans' access to higher education from 1978-1983. It is a theoretical account of how "people, places, discourses and objects" come together to facilitate action and social change. It also offers a theoretical sketch and empirical illustration of computer mediated communication. The book does not provide a full methodological, empirical or theoretical account, but focuses instead on the nexus of these components. The theory of social action undergirds the methodological suggestions, and the empirical material illustrates both the theory and the methodology.
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1996
Social Semiotics, 2003
Taking a comparative approach to critical semiotics, I describe reciprocal relations between medi... more Taking a comparative approach to critical semiotics, I describe reciprocal relations between media representation of body idiom in platform events and the interaction order of social relations among people in Hong Kong. I argue that two conflicting representations of body idiom vie for ...
Disclaimer: This report is released to inform interested parties of ongoing research and to encou... more Disclaimer: This report is released to inform interested parties of ongoing research and to encourage discussion of work in progress. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the U.S. Census Bureau.
English Amayrst literacy shares-many features with. the liscourse patterns of English-speakers. W... more English Amayrst literacy shares-many features with. the liscourse patterns of English-speakers. Where these patterns are different from those of another ethnic group, literacywill be experienced as interethnic Communication. Athabamkan discourse differs tpom that of English...in (1) presentation 'of Aelf (an Athabaskan is silent with new acguaintances): (2).dominance and display (in Athabaskan culture Silence is submislive, talk dcminant): (3) Orolection of self-image (Athabaskan courtesy prohibits'speaking well of one's self) : and (41 closing forsulas.(kthabaskan has nolle). Thes9 differences result.inMutual ethnic stereotyping.-To an Athabaskan, to acquife English essayist literacy is to become smug, boastful-, talkative, and arrogant. It is. suggested that non-western 4tbabaskan literacy. For instancet the Kutchin A habAskans once-/ it 'forms of literacy maybe useful in approaching the problem of Oveloped a%native literacy on the model Of some Afridln peoples, by readtng and.memorizing scripture (au authoritatii ely presented text) mnd spontaneomely adopting therefrom forms of iting for practical use. els)
... Narrative, literacy, and face in interethnic communication. Post a Comment. ... PAGES (INTRO/... more ... Narrative, literacy, and face in interethnic communication. Post a Comment. ... PAGES (INTRO/BODY): xiv, 209 p. SUBJECT(S): Athapascan Indians; Intercultural communication; Interpersonalcommunication; Indians of North America; Languages; Social aspects; Alaska. ...
Awakening to literacy, 1984
Page 1. Book Reviews Defending the Land: Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree So-ciety. ... more Page 1. Book Reviews Defending the Land: Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree So-ciety. By Ronald Niezen. (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, xii + pp., illustrations, foreword to the series, acknowledgments, bibliography. . paper.) ...
Page 1. INFORMATION TO USERS This reproduction was made from a copy of a document sent to us for ... more Page 1. INFORMATION TO USERS This reproduction was made from a copy of a document sent to us for microfilming. While the most advanced technology has been used to photograph and reproduce this document, the quality ...
The challenge of facework, 1994
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Text Talk, 2009
We take as axiomatic from Hymes&a... more We take as axiomatic from Hymes's work that the linguistic structures of oral narrative should be construed not as abstract and ideal but as artifacts of the human mind in action in society, and that the indissoluble tension between structure and creativity should be moved by analysts in the direction of social justice. The problem we faced in an extended set of action projects aimed at reducing discrimination against Alaska Natives was that problems framed for our attention were often misleading though on the surface clear-cut and reasonable. We began by viewing narrative as a work of social interaction between storyteller and audience in which taboos often dictate indirect statement, and gradually learned to see action as the active punch line. We began to breakthrough into action—acting ourselves in order to learn how people act, what they know and value, how they structure their worlds—using a strategy we now call “nexus analysis.” Taking narrative as the discursive doppelganger of action, we trained educators and medics to perceive and pursue indigenous hunting strategies of carefully surrounding rather than going directly to quarry. We worked through abduction by moving from action to action, becoming directly engaged in processes of social change.
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