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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
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN
0167-8507

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.