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Personality structure in east and west Africa: Lexical studies of personality in Maa and Supyire-Senufo.
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Shape shifting: civilizational discourse and the analysis of cross-cultural interaction in the constitution of international society
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Beneficiary voices in ELT development aid: ethics, epistemology and politics
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Pennycook, Alastair, and Makoni, Sinfree. 2020. Innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the Global South
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Emotion and its management: the lens of language and social psychology
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Assessing communication behaviours of hospital pharmacists: how well do the perspectives of pharmacists, patients, and an independent observer align?
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Playback: An investigation of the discursive implications and the pragmatic functions of repetition in traditional Chinese medical consultations
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Interactional adjustment: three approaches in language and social psychology
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How is structural inequality made fair in a meritocratic education system?: Equalising opportunities through metaphorical transfers within and across sub micro-meso-macro movements in policy discourse
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THE PEOPLE WHO “BURN”: “COMMUNICATION,” UNITY, AND CHANGE IN BELARUSIAN DISCOURSE ON PUBLIC CREATIVITY
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In: Doctoral Dissertations (2020)
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The main intellectual problem I address in this study is how everyday communication activates the relationship between creativity, conflict, and change. More specifically, I look at how the communication of creativity becomes a process of transformation, innovation, and change and how people are propelled to create through everyday communication practices in the face of conflict and opposition. To approach this problem, I use the case of communication in modern-day Belarus to show how creativity becomes a vehicle for and a source of new social and cultural routines among the independent grassroots communities and initiatives in Minsk. On one level, I show how local research participants communicate six cultural identities through a cultural discourse when they speak about public creativity in Belarus. Additionally, I show how these categories of identity are structured as oppositional cultural codes, such as “State” vs. “People” or “Indifferent people” vs. “Talented, really creative people,” and how these discursive oppositions reflect a similar dynamic found in Ruthenian/Russian culture where the continuous interplay of opposing values has been a foundation of cultural unity throughout history. On another level, I show how the participants of these grassroots communities problematize the existing ideas and practices of being a Belarusian and of being a citizen in general. The prevailing cultural myth suggests that Belarus, like many post-Soviet spaces, is inferior to the “progressive” “West” and the “USA.” However, this is not the way Belarus is symbolically constructed in the grassroots communities I studied. The Belarus they envision living within is a place of togetherness, of synergetic cooperation, and with the emergence of alternative mythology and everyday routines out of which cultural, business, and social innovations arise. On yet another level, this research suggests that the process of creativity is, in its essence, a process of innovation, transformation, and change. I argue that such creative transformative processes in the society involve conflict, opposition, a struggle with everyday reality, out of which innovations come to life.
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and Cultures; and Historical Methodologies; Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics; Art Practice; Belarus; Civic and Community Engagement; Comparative; Contemporary Art; Critical and Cultural Studies; cultural discourse analysis (CuDA); cultural identity; Discourse and Text Linguistics; Eastern European Studies; Epistemology; European Languages and Societies; Folklore; Indigenous Studies; International and Intercultural Communication; Language Interpretation and Translation; Linguistic Anthropology; Modern Art and Architecture; Other Arts and Humanities; Other Communication; Other Languages; Other Linguistics; Other Philosophy; Other Political Science; Other Social and Behavioral Sciences; Other Sociology; Philosophy of Language; Place and Environment; Politics and Social Change; Public creativity; Qualitative; Quantitative; Race and Ethnicity; ritual; Russian Linguistics; Social and Cultural Anthropology; social change; Social Psychology and Interaction; Societies; Sociology of Culture; Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies; Speech and Rhetorical Studies; Theory and Criticism; Urban Studies; Urban Studies and Planning
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URL: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/1923
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2981&context=dissertations_2
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Boris Johnson in hospital : a Chinese gaze at Western democracies in the COVID-19 pandemic
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Post-reform gender politics : how do Chinese internet users portray Theresa May on Zhihu
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Establishing professional intercultural relations : Chinese perceptions of behavioural success in a Sino-American exchange visit
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