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Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature: Indigenous People and Protected Spaces of Nature

This chapter presents to readers the spoken words of Blackfeet people who have discussed their ho... more This chapter presents to readers the spoken words of Blackfeet people who have discussed their homeland, its landscape, and all that it entails. In the process, the chapter seeks to help readers hear in those words in a Blackfeet way of speaking about their land, to introduce some of the cultural meanings of Blackfeet in that way of speaking about it, and to offer an understanding of this way as a communal touchstone which is anchored in the discourse Blackfeet participants produce as they speak about their homeland.

Commun. Assoc. Inf. Syst., 2019

This paper reports on a workshop hosted at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in September, ... more This paper reports on a workshop hosted at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in September, 2018. The workshop, called “Giving Voice to the Voiceless: The Use of Digital Technologies by Marginalized Groups”, focused on discussing how marginalized groups use digital technologies to raise their voices. At the workshop, a diverse group of scholars and doctoral students presented research projects and perspectives on the role that digital technologies have in activist projects that represent marginalized groups that have gained momentum in the last few years. The studies and viewpoints presented shed light on four areas in which IS research can expand our understanding about how marginalized groups use digital technologies to address societal challenges: 1) the rise of cyberactivism, 2) resource mobilization for cyberactivism, 3) cyberactivism by and with marginalized groups, and 4) research methods for examining how marginalized groups use digital technologies.

During U.S. presidential elections, today, interviews at late-night talk shows are commonplace. A... more During U.S. presidential elections, today, interviews at late-night talk shows are commonplace. As political and entertainment discourse co-occur in this type of communication, we refer to this genre as the Entertainment-Political Interview (EPI). Yet, research is lacking in clarifying how candidates, through their talk, appeal to their audience on these shows to realize their political goals. In this study, the different extralinguistic referents for the first-person plural (i.e. we, us, our) are investigated in order to understand which groups are referred to by U.S. presidential candidates, how these groups are presented and how this positions the candidate with respect to their audience in order to construct a discursive presentation of the world. Namely, even as we is a deictic term produced by a speaker, the referent can still be any group of people including the speaker. Investigating these genre-specific foundational group memberships is essential to understand this mode of ...

This project looks at how synecdoche and ideographs function in the construction of competing pos... more This project looks at how synecdoche and ideographs function in the construction of competing position in the controversy surrounding the Washington Redskins mascot. I examined the rhetoric produced by both the Washington Redskins organization and its fans, as well as the rhetoric of Change the Mascot, the Oneida Indian Nation of New York and other opponents between the years of 2013 and 2015. Based in part on Moore's (1993, 1994, 1997) argument that synecdoche and ideographs often prevent resolution and produce irreconcilable conflict, I extend this notion insofar as the controversy surrounding the Redskins mascot appears to be shifted towards opponents position of over supporters' claims of . This project examines how synecdoche can be used as a tool by rhetors to examine the challenges made by groups in such controversies against certain synecdochal relationships. Ultimately, this project suggests potential implications for the use of synecdoche and ideographs not only as tools for the skilled rhetor, but also how such theoretical perspectives may aid individuals and groups in denying the possibility of irreconcilable conflict. Furthermore, I explore what implications this project has for the larger discourse surrounding Native American mascot use including but not limited to the educational opportunities provided by the coverage of such controversies in the media. REDSKINS REVISITED iii Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction…………………………………………………………………………1 Synecdoche and Ideograph……………………………………………………………...3 Literature Review………………………………………………………………………..8 Calls for mutual respect and equality…………………………………………….10 A history of tradition and honor………………………………………………….13 A tradition of appropriation……………………………………………………...16 A scapegoat issue………………………………………………………………...17 Summary…………………………………………………………………………19 The Redskins Controversy……………………………………………………………..20 Research Questions……………………………………………………………………..26 Summary of Artifacts…………………………………………………………………..26 Précis of Chapters………………………………………………………………………27 Chapter 2: "Change the Mascot" and the Rhetoric of Mascot Opponents….………….…..29 Redskins lack of ……………………………………………………………30 Redskins as sign of inequality………………………………………………………….34 Redskins are not Americans…………………………………………………………...39 Redskins as the face of our nation's capital and thereby our country………………42 Redskins as a symbol of the NFL……………………………………………………...45 Summary………………………………………………………………………………...

Approaches to Discourse Analysis

Discourse, Context, & Media, 2020

Late-night talk shows have become a central venue for political communication in the U.S.A. In th... more Late-night talk shows have become a central venue for political communication in the U.S.A. In these interviews, entertainment and politics are both used and therefore we name them Entertainment-Political Interviews (EPIs). While research on such shows generally assumes that the EPI is a hybrid discourse, crafting entertainment and politics into one coherent discourse, this assumption has not been empirically justified. Using membership categorization analysis (MCA) to study how the participants self-categorize in the EPI, we illustrate how they orient to political and entertainment talk. First, by applying Sacks’ (1972) hearer’s maxim to its fullest extent, entertainment and politics are identified as independently foundational devices for the EPI. Second, only one of these devices is relevant at a time to shape a turn at talk. Third, still, each device is continuously relevant to the participants. Thus, the understanding of the activity is based on the separation of the device of politics and of entertainment. Therefore, we argue, the EPI does not result in a hybrid device with a hybrid form of talk, but rather, participants alternate between politics and entertainment.