Document Type

Contribution to a Book

Publication Date

12-13-2017

Publication Title

The International Encyclopedia of Intercultural Communication

Editor

Young Yun Kim, Kelly L. McKay-Semmler

DOI

10.1002/9781118783665.ieicc0123

Keywords

applied communication, communication theory, intercultural communication, intergroup communication, language and social interaction, qualitative methods, strategic communication

Abstract

Rooted in the ethnography of communication and based on empirical research, speech codes theory is a theoretical/methodological tool for studying situated communication practices. Two important applications of speech codes theory are to reveal local cultures and to examine the ways in which people make use of communication to accomplish important goals pertaining to communal life. Speech codes theory offers researchers a systematic approach to describing, interpreting, analyzing, and comparing local communicative practices and the cultures which they instantiate.

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This is the Version of Record, and has been reposted here with permission from Wiley.

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