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Measuring inter-ethnic accomodation: are communicator style constructs adequate?

This paper attempts to analyse the possibility of measuring interethnic accommodation strategies between the Malaysian Chinese and Malays using Norton’s communicator-style constructs. Focus is directed towards the communicative habits and cultural perspectives of both ethnic groups, the basic tenet...

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Main Authors: Ibrahim, Faisal, Ahmad, Abd Mua'ti @ Zamri, Tamam, Ezhar, Bolong, Jusang
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Language:English
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Published: SEGi University College 2009
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15571/1/Measuring%20inter.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.155712015-09-29T08:16:44Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15571/ Measuring inter-ethnic accomodation: are communicator style constructs adequate? Ibrahim, Faisal Ahmad, Abd Mua'ti @ Zamri Tamam, Ezhar Bolong, Jusang This paper attempts to analyse the possibility of measuring interethnic accommodation strategies between the Malaysian Chinese and Malays using Norton’s communicator-style constructs. Focus is directed towards the communicative habits and cultural perspectives of both ethnic groups, the basic tenets of the Communication Accommodation Theory and the constructs of communicator styles. With the colour of ethnic history in the country and the assumptions of the theory there are reasons to believe that accommodation strategies adopted by the Malaysian Chinese and Malays are driven by the chronicles of history and cultural perspectives. Although the communicator style constructs are generally used to measure styles at individual level and accommodation strategies have been measured in various ways, this paper found that there is a strong reason to explore the use of the constructs to measure interethnic accommodation strategies. SEGi University College 2009 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15571/1/Measuring%20inter.pdf Ibrahim, Faisal and Ahmad, Abd Mua'ti @ Zamri and Tamam, Ezhar and Bolong, Jusang (2009) Measuring inter-ethnic accomodation: are communicator style constructs adequate? SEGi Review, 2 (2). pp. 52-64. ISSN 1985-5672 English
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description This paper attempts to analyse the possibility of measuring interethnic accommodation strategies between the Malaysian Chinese and Malays using Norton’s communicator-style constructs. Focus is directed towards the communicative habits and cultural perspectives of both ethnic groups, the basic tenets of the Communication Accommodation Theory and the constructs of communicator styles. With the colour of ethnic history in the country and the assumptions of the theory there are reasons to believe that accommodation strategies adopted by the Malaysian Chinese and Malays are driven by the chronicles of history and cultural perspectives. Although the communicator style constructs are generally used to measure styles at individual level and accommodation strategies have been measured in various ways, this paper found that there is a strong reason to explore the use of the constructs to measure interethnic accommodation strategies.
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author Ibrahim, Faisal
Ahmad, Abd Mua'ti @ Zamri
Tamam, Ezhar
Bolong, Jusang
spellingShingle Ibrahim, Faisal
Ahmad, Abd Mua'ti @ Zamri
Tamam, Ezhar
Bolong, Jusang
Measuring inter-ethnic accomodation: are communicator style constructs adequate?
author_facet Ibrahim, Faisal
Ahmad, Abd Mua'ti @ Zamri
Tamam, Ezhar
Bolong, Jusang
author_sort Ibrahim, Faisal
title Measuring inter-ethnic accomodation: are communicator style constructs adequate?
title_short Measuring inter-ethnic accomodation: are communicator style constructs adequate?
title_full Measuring inter-ethnic accomodation: are communicator style constructs adequate?
title_fullStr Measuring inter-ethnic accomodation: are communicator style constructs adequate?
title_full_unstemmed Measuring inter-ethnic accomodation: are communicator style constructs adequate?
title_sort measuring inter-ethnic accomodation: are communicator style constructs adequate?
publisher SEGi University College
publishDate 2009
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15571/1/Measuring%20inter.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/15571/
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