Open Access Article Intercultural Communication

It’s like a Mexican Bingo

Alan Dale Hansen (1) , Kelly Quintanilla (2)
1. Carroll College USA
2. Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi USA
https://doi.org/10.36923/jicc.v11i3.535

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Vol. 11 No. 3 (2011)
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2009 August 27
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2011 November 10
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    culture, social interaction, diabetes, group interviews, Hispanic
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Much of Intercultural Communication (ICC) scholarship is interested in the "intercultural encounter": interaction between people who are from different cultures.  Taking culture to be emergent in social interaction, in this paper we examine group interviews about health and diabetes which were conducted in the Southwestern U.S. with Hispanic adults. Using discourse analytic methods, we show how culture emerges in these group interviews, as participants treat objects (practices, etc.) as cultural in the performance of interactional tasks such as explaining, account-making, and managing face-threat. Analysis reveals that close analysis of the emergence of culture in interaction may help ICC scholars enter interdisciplinary discussion of effective health care delivery in an increasing culturally-diverse and culturally-complex worldculture

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Authors

Alan Dale Hansen
ahansen@carroll.edu (Primary Contact)
Kelly Quintanilla
Author Biographies

Alan Dale Hansen

Dr. Alan Hansen is an associate professor at Carroll College, Montana. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology and Communication from the University at Albany, SUNY in 2002. He joined the faculty of Carroll College in 2008. His research specializations include intercultural communication, immigration, ethnography, and language and social interaction.

Kelly Quintanilla

Dr. Kelly Quintanilla is the dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication from the Pennsylvania State University in 1994, joining the A&M-CC faculty that same year. She has recently co-authored Business and Professional Communication: KEYS for Workplace Excellence (Sage, 2011) and is conducting research as part of an NIH grant focused on developing health interventions with Hispanic children.

Hansen, A. D., & Quintanilla, K. (2011). It’s like a Mexican Bingo. Journal of Intercultural Communication, 11(3), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.36923/jicc.v11i3.535
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Hansen, A. D., & Quintanilla, K. (2011). It’s like a Mexican Bingo. Journal of Intercultural Communication, 11(3), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.36923/jicc.v11i3.535