Communicative Practices in an American Gamelan Orchestra

Gamelan adalah tradisi musik yang berakar di Indonesia, dipertunjukkan di kepulauan Jawa, Madura, dan Bali dalam upacara-upacara adat dan ritual-ritual agama. Kendati secara tradisional gamelan dimainkan oleh warga pribumi, dengan meningkatnya popularitas budaya etnis Indonesia dalam lingkup Internasional, gamelan baru-baru ini dimainkan pula oleh orang-orang asing. Studi berikut ini merupakan etnografi dari proses komunikasi dalam sebuah Orkestra Gamelan Amerika yang mengidentifikasi dua pertanyaan kunci: (1) Bagaimana gamelan dipelajari di luar konteks sosiokultural orisinalnya? (2) Bagaimana pengetahuan tersebar di antara komunitas yang spesifik ini? Melibatkan kurang lebih 30 anggota (pemusik dan penari) dari sebuah kelompok Gamelan Bali, dengan beragam latar belakang etnis, kebangsaan dan latar belakang musik, penelitian ini menyimpulkan adanya empat praktik komunikasi dalam mempelajari gamelan: (1) Vokalisasi (sebagai metode utama instruktur dalam mengajarkan cara memainkan gamelan); (2) Percakapan informal (sebagai bentuk praktik komunikasi yang memungkinkan anggota kelompok berinteraksi dalam percakapan bebas); (3) Metawacana (suatu proses di mana anggota-anggota senior mencapai keputusan manajemen pertunjukan); dan (4) Blessings, semacam upacara keagamaan memohon restu dari Yang Mahakuasa untuk kesuksesan acara. Keempat praktik komunikasi ini tidak sekadar membantu anggota mempelajari musik tradisional, tetapi juga memungkinkan para musisi tersebut menjadi anggota aktif dalam komunitas yang dikerangka oleh batas-batas kultural. Pada akhirnya, praktik komunikasi semacam ini membantu proses penyebaran pengetahuan di antara anggota-anggota kelompok

Innovative Model of Communicative Practices

The article deals with the philosophical and pedagogical understanding of communicative practices in the educational process of a higher school. A typology of dialogue interaction in pedagogical search space has been proposed. Its usage creates conditions for the analysis, reflection and self-assessment of students in the organization of their training activity. The experience of organization of communicative educational clusters in higher artistic education, which provides for the transition from the primacy of formalized to innovative models of interaction between all participants of the process, has been presented. The conceptual values-semantic aspects of the implementation of interdisciplinary approach have been analyzed, and it has been shown that this approach opens qualitatively new possibilities for the reflection of the investigated object. The contours of a new view on the problem of dialogue, in particular, through the discursive activity of students, have been outlined: Problem group method, group therapy, group “buzz”, “aquarium”, and lecture-forum. The transition to interdisciplinary integration with project design forms is a prerequisite for creating an innovative model for the development of post-non-classical artistic education. In the organization of the dialogue, we take into account: the students’ method to perceive different points of view, the search for the underlying motives, that is, those problem situations through which the own style of the studied material is formed, the development of tasks-conflicts associated with higher spiritual values, ideological and semantic sphere, designing various variants of interaction ways for dialogue participants

Politeness and face in digitally reconfigured e-learning spaces

This paper has two starting points. The first is a theorization about the way in which “rhetorical space” is reshaped in asynchronous, online, learning environments. In particular, an asynchronous bulletin- board (ABB) discussion offers both opportunities and constraints for teaching and learning. The learning that occurs will be affected by the affordances implicit in the design of the conversational space itself and the communicative practices engaged in by both teachers and students. The second starting point is a small case study, utilizing action research and discourse analytical strategies, whose research participants were the author and students involved in “delivering” and “receiving” an online education course at post-graduate level using asynchronous discussion. The course, taught in English, had a mix of Chinese students (for whom English was an additional language) and native English speakers. The paper will report on students’ perceptions of what worked for them and what didn’t in respect of this elearning environment. It will also use concepts such as politeness, face and positioning to analyse aspects of the participants’ communicative practices and will draw conclusions from these in respect of how successful learning can occur in elearning environments with multicultural and multilingual students. It will make connections between the findings of this case study and other research on asynchronous, web-based learning and will makes some suggestions about what is needed in respect of the future research agenda

Engineering a \u2018contact zone\u2019 through translanguaging

This paper presents a pilot project which uses a translanguaging approach in order to subvert the power dynamics whereby language learners, refugees and migrants are positioned as defective or ineffective communicators of a target language. The project seeks to create a space, an engineered \u2018contact zone\u2019 in which the negative, mainstream media discourses of migration can be countered through dialogue and encounter. Through translanguaging we foster creative, communicative practices in which interactants can bring into play their linguistic and cultural repertoires in order to support mutual understanding

Communicative Practices of Migrants in the Transnational Space

Th article is devoted to the analysis of intercultural global interaction in the format of transnational communication networks that migrants form, moving from the country of origin to the country of reception. The purpose of the article is to describe and analyze the phenomenon of the reproduction of ethnic identity in transnational spaces, where migrants mainly from Central Asian countries form new multicultural models of behavior based on their own cultural patterns and identities. The article emphasizes that cultural systems involve diverging, but overlapping of migrant groups’ patterns of behavior. Thus, the problem situation is determined by ignorance of the features of everyday communication and behavioral patterns adopted in different groups of migrants. The author analyzes various adaptation strategies of migrants, emphasizing that the choice of a particular strategy depends on the motivation of the migrant. The problem of migrant groups’ integration is identified in the article as state policy aimed not only at working with migrants in order to successfully include them in the host community, but also at interacting with the host community itself and the local population. Organizational, integration and financial resources spent on working with migrants will not be effectively used if we do not take into account the differences between ethnic migrant groups, which are identified, including in the particularities of communication practices and the construction of communicative transnational spaces. The research methodology includes the main components of a transnational approach, in the framework of which it is noted that the concept of “international migration”, which involves crossing borders, is losing its relevance. migrants more and more differ in socio-cultural characteristics, are oriented towards life in two or more societies, the development of transnational communities and the corresponding consciousness. In transnational communications, a special role belongs to diaspora communities. The main conclusion of the article is that the concept of transnational and translocal migration sets a new globalist perspective. The locality is being replaced by the process of translocality, and transmigrants belong to several localities at the same time and are included in more than one community. Keywords: transnational migrations, adaptation strategies, communication practices, transnational space The publication has been prepared with the support of the «RUDN University Program 5-100

Research on Communicative Practices in an Alternative Classroom

This thesis studies communications in an alternative classroom in the United States. Using an ethnographic approach and drawing from conversation analysis, the study describes the school’s model of education and analyzes students’ classroom initiations, particularly those in which students responded to the teacher’s question with a question

Problems of research of communicative practices on the Internet environment

Комунікативні практики в інтернет-середовищі розглянуто як способи цілераціональних дій суб’єкта, спрямованих на обмін інформацією, генерування нових смислів та утворення ефективних моделей комунікативної взаємодії. Проаналізовано особливості інтернет-комунікації, що впливають на розгортання комунікативних практик, зокрема опосередкованість інтернет-комунікації електронним сигналом, обумовленість комунікативних практик структурою медіуму, віртуальність. Звернено увагу на те, що на розгортання комунікативних практик нового кіберпокоління впливають не тільки особливості інтернет-комунікації (віртуальність, інтерактивність, гіпертекстуальність, фрагментарність), а й спрямованість особистості. Інтернет-комунікацію визначено як інтегрований процес комп’ютерно опосередкованої взаємодії суб’єктів в інтернет-середовищі, інтернет-середовище – як нове “гібридне” середовище, що утворюється за допомогою інформаційно-комунікаційних технологій у результаті інтеграції елементів реального і віртуального життя. Виділено критерії комунікативних практик, зокрема рівень залученості користувачів у комунікативну взаємодію (пасивний, реактивний, проактивний) та спосіб взаємодії комунікантів (конструктивний, деструктивний). Представлено структурну модель комунікативних практик в інтернет-середовищі (за означеними критеріями).Communicative practices on the Internet environment are considered as methods of goal-oriented actions of the subject, aimed at the exchange of information, the generation of new meanings and the formation of effective models of communicative interaction. The peculiarities of Internet communication which affect on deployment of communicative practices, in particular the mediation of Internet communication by electronic signal, the condition of communicative practices by the structure of the media, and virtuality are analyzed. Attention is drawn to the fact that the deployment of communicative practices of a new cyber generation is influenced not only by the features of Internet communication (virtuality, interactivity, hypertext, fragmentary), but also the orientation of the individual. Internet communication is defined as an integrated process of computer-mediated interaction of subjects in the Internet environment, the Internet environment - as a new “hybrid” environment, created through the use of information and communication technologies as a result of the integration of elements of real and virtual life. The criteria of communicative practices are highlighted; in particular the level of engagement of users in communicative interaction (passive, reactive, proactive) and the way communicators interact (constructive, destructive). The structural model of communicative practices in the Internet environment (according to the defined criteria) is presented

Does Language Determine Our Scientific Ideas?

SummaryThis paper argues that the influence of language on science, philosophy and other field is mediated by communicative practices. Where communications is more restrictive, established linguistic structures exercise a tighter control over innovations and scientifically motivated reforms of language. The viewpoint here centers on the thesis that argumentation is crucial in the understanding and evaluation of proposed reforms and that social practices which limit argumentation serve to erode scientific objectivity. Thus, a plea is made for a sociology of scientific belief designed to understand and insure social‐institutional conditions of the possibility of knowledge and its growth. A chief argument draws on work of Axelrod concerning the evolution of cooperation

Embracing Commonplace: Creating Ground for a Life of Rhetorically Engaged Civic Action

This project responds to the question: How do communication educators encourage students to enact the communicative practices necessary for a life of rhetorically engaged civic action? In responding to this question, the academic field of communication studies is recognized as a site for implementing the lessons of rhetoric, democracy, and civic engagement. This project contributes to the civic engagement scholarship from a communication studies perspective by foregrounding human communication as an essential component of the civic engagement process. As an interpretive inquiry, the philosophical thought and the pragmatic action of twentieth-century rhetorician and social activist Jane Addams (1860-1935) provides a hermeneutic entrance point for identifying and understanding the ways in which faculty members in higher education might conduct service-learning in a more responsive and engaged manner. Practicing situated communicative service-learning, a pedagogical approach that embraces the historical moment and the challenges facing service-learning on today\u27s college campus, provides one possibility. Addams\u27s philosophical thought and communicative practices inform the integration of situated communicative service-learning into the communication studies field and college campus through the understanding of commonplace stemming from the Greek understanding of topoi (Aristotle). This praxis-centered approach to service-learning provides ground for students to understand the rhetorical and communicative practices necessary for a life of engaged civic action. By grounding individual communicative practices in a communication classroom setting, communicative habits can grow and flourish in communities