Godwin Agboka

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Godwin Agboka's work travels primarily in Technical Communication (89% of indexed citations) · 19 total indexed citations from 3 clusters.

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  1. Liberating Intercultural Technical Communication from “Large Culture” Ideologies: Constructing Culture Discursively
    Abstract

    Although contemporary writers on culture have argued for more dynamic approaches to culture in intercultural technical communication scholarship, much of the theoretical position on culture is still heavily based on “large culture” ideologies. Yet, not only do these ideologies fail to account for cultural practices and values within less comprehensive groups within culture, but they do not accommodate the inputs individuals make in specific communication contexts. This article draws from the existing body of work and the critical cultural perspectives on culture advocated by contemporary anthropologists and sociologists, mainly Arjun Appadurai (1996), to argue that we construct culture discursively to address cultural issues in intercultural technical communication. A discursive paradigm of culture sees culture as “socially constructed” in which culture is under construction and reconstruction by active cultural actors, who construct their identities and negotiate systems of knowledge and meaning that come to play during intercultural contacts.

    doi:10.2190/tw.42.2.e