"Quit Whining and Tell me about your Experiences!": (In)Tolerance, Pragmatism, and Muting in Intergroup Dialogue

The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 565-584

  Deturk, Sara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Exploring what actually happens in voluntary structured intergroup dialogue program; Hermeneutic listening and perspective taking dialogue, participants valuing group experiences; Jackson's typology of cultural contracts what Yoshikawa calls as a "control mode" of communication; Meaning of intergroup dialogue, for participants tightly intertwined with the meaning that diversity held for them; Muting in academia, essed's observation parker (2002) ideas of african american women in organizational meetings, tending to be ignored or coopted; Quit whining and tell me about your experiences!" (in) tolerance, pragmatism, and muting in intergroup dialogue; Silencing marginalized groups extant communication scholarship, role of social power; Silencing, as a result of systemic power dynamics as essed (1991) illustrates; Tolerance, learning through hermeneutic listening a goal, freedom of expression being one condition

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EID: 84885488274     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390681.ch33     Document Type: Chapter

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