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Publication details [#56627]

Baldwin, John R. and Ryan W. Buddenhagen. 2012. Performing communicative functions in development projects: An exploratory study of development practices in Tanzania. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 36 (3) : 418–429.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative function | developing nation | development | discursive practice | language use

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Drawing on interviews with project personnel, focus groups, and informal beneficiary questioning, this study discusses how 13 Tanzanian development projects across a series of sectors develop sets of field practices to accomplish communicative functions.