Saturday, February 6, 2010

A PRAGMATIC INQUIRY/LANGUAGE N CULTURE

A PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO INTERCULTURAL INQUIRY
TERMS
1. Pragmatic: concerned with practical results or values rather than thought or theory.

2. Intercultural: pertaining to or taking place between two or more cultures.

3. Inquiry: an investigation, as into an incident


PRAGMATIC ETHNOGRAPHY
WHY ANTHROPOLOGY?
WHY TEACHERS?
CULTURE LEARNING, ANYONE?
ETHNOGRAPHY AS CULTURAL DESCRIPTION
CONTRASTING FRAMES OF REFERENCE
MAKING EDUCATED CULTURAL GUESSES


8. PREPARING TO ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
9. STEPS IN PRAGMATIC ETHNOGRAPHY
9.1 CHOOSING A TARGET GROUP
9.2 CHOOSING INFORMANTS
9.3 PROVIDING A FOUNDATION FOR INQUIRY
9.4 INFORMANT INTERVIEWING
9.5 ANALYZING DATA AND FORMING CULTURAL HYPOTHESES
9.6 LOOKING IN THE MIRROR
9.7 PUTTING THEORY AND KNOWLEDGE TO WORK

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