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Publication details [#56778]

Gilchrist, Eletra S. 2012. Cultural Dis/Continuity in African-American and Ghanaian Mothers’ Voices and Identities. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 41 (1) : 81–108.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

experience | identity negotiation | language and culture | mother | rhetoric

Language as a subject

English, African American | Languages, Ghanese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study distinguishes cultural discontinuity in the rhetoric employed by Ghanaian and African-American mothers to describe their motherhood experiences and identities and explores effects of resemblances and discrepancies in these motherhood philosophies.