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Publication details [#28158]
Leets, Laura, Howard Giles and Richard Clément. 1996. Explaining ethnicity in theory and communication research. Multilingua 15 (2) : 115–147.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN
0167-8507
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper deals with theoretical foundations, definitions and measurement of ethnicity in communication research and other social sciences. It is suggested that ethnicity is more appropriately approached as a dynamic phenomenon, governed by communicative, contextual and societal forces.