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Title Communicating race, ethnicity, and identity in technical communication / edited by Miriam F. Williams and Octavio Pimentel
Published Amityville, New York : Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (iv, 184 pages) : illustrations, tables
Series Baywood's technical communications series
Baywood's technical communications series
Contents Section 1: Historical representations of race and nationality in health and science communication -- The eugenics agenda: deliberative rhetoric and therapeutic discourse of hate -- Section II: Social justice and activism in technical communication -- Using a hybrid form of technical communication to combat environmental racism in south Texas: a case study of Suzie Canales, a grassroots activist -- The importance of ethnographic research in activist networks -- Section III: Contemporary representations of race and ethnicity on social networking sites -- Tweeting collaborative identity: race, ICTs, and performing Latinidad -- Taqueros, luchadores, y los brits: U.S. radical rhetoric, and its global influence -- Section IV: Reporting technical communication at historically black colleges and universities -- HBCU institutional reporting as intercultural technical communication -- Section V: Users' right to their own language -- A response to "Students' right to their own language" -- Spanglish: a new communication tool -- Section VI: Communicating identity across borders, cultures, and disciplines -- Americans' changing perception of Indian cultural identity: an analysis of Indian call centers -- This bridge called my pen
Summary "For the sake of clarity, the book is organized into five sections: historical representations of race and ethnicity in health and science communication; social justice and activism in technical communication; considerations of race and ethnicity in social media; users' right to their own language; and communicating identity across borders, cultures, and disciplines." -- Amazon.com viewed June 12, 2020
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Intercultural communication -- Social aspects
Business communication -- Social aspects
Cross-cultural orientation -- Social aspects
Communication of technical information -- Social aspects
Sociolinguistics.
sociolinguistics.
Business communication -- Social aspects
Communication of technical information -- Social aspects
Intercultural communication -- Social aspects
Sociolinguistics
Form Electronic book
Author Williams, Miriam F., editor
Pimentel, Octavio, 1967- editor
ISBN 9780895038340
089503834X
9780895038333
0895038331