Donal Carbaugh is EUASU Academician, Professor of Communication and Faculty Affiliate in American Indian Studies, American Studies, and Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is an author and editor of numerous books. Dr. Carbaugh has been Chair of both the International Communication Association's and National Communication Association's Language and Social Interaction Division, and the National Communication Association's International and Intercultural Communication Division. His teaching has been honored as have several of his books and articles. His studies focus upon Native American, popular American, Russian, and Finnish communication practices, with special attention to the relationship between language use, culture, spirit, and nature.
In 2010 he was a featured speaker at the National Academies of Science, presenting a unifying framework for communication inquiry. He has served on the roster of Senior Fulbright Specialists, and was in the Fall of 2005 elected into the Communication Hall of Fame at the University of Washington. In 2014 he was selected Distinguished Graduate Mentor on the Department of Communication, the first so designated. In 2016, Prof. Carbaugh received his university's Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity. In 2017 he was named a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association, its highest honor.
Donal Carbaugh currently serves on about twenty editorial boards of national and international journals. He is also an author of numerous books and articles. His book, Cultures in Conversation, was designated the Outstanding Book of the Year by the International and Intercultural Communication Division of the National Communication Association; and with the Old Chestnut Award as a classic in Language and Social Interaction by the same association.
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Talking American: Cultural Discourses on Donahue This study explores cultural features in communication and examines language in use by studying the talk within a prominent cultural event, the DONAHUE show. First, the study provides a detailed reading of America today, showing the importance of the individual in American society, the prominence of choice, and the role of the self as an antagonist to traditional social roles and the institutions of society more generally. Similarly, the study explores common ways of speaking such as being honest about who one is, sharing one's thoughts and feelings, and really communicating with others. By unraveling how these words give shape to American means and meanings, the study demonstrates how routine communication creates powerful motives in contemporary American life. Second, the study provides a way of seeing and hearing ordinary communication as a resource to develop a cultural perspective on ordinary communicative action. |
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Cultures in Conversation Cultures in Conversation introduces readers to the ethnographic study of intercultural and social interactions through the analysis of conversations in which various cultural orientations are operating. Author Donal Carbaugh presents his original research on conversation practices in England, Finland, Russia, Blackfeet County, and the United States, demonstrating how each is distinctive in its communication codes—particularly in its use of symbolic meanings, forms of interaction, norms, and motivational themes. Examining conversation in this way demonstrates how cultural lives are active in conversations and shows how conversation is a principal medium for the coding of selves, social relationships, and societies. |
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Reporting Cultures on 60 Minutes This work delves into the act of reporting on different cultures as a means of exploring our own. The way culture is presented to the media highlights various international and intercultural dynamics, as well as the complexity involved in reporting from a cultural standpoint. Reporting Cultures in 60 Minutes is a study covering the journalistic practice of reporting culture by examining "Tango Finlandia," a broadcast report on Finnish culture produced by the American television news magazine 60 Minutes. It covers the journalistic practice of reporting culture broadly by looking specifically at Finns and Americans reporting about their respective homelands and about the other’s culture and social interactions. |