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" Narrating Identities in Technical and Professional Communication "
Surya, Kavita
Sharp-Hoskins, Kellie
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1051850
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TL50967
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Surya, Kavita
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Narrating Identities in Technical and Professional Communication\ Surya, KavitaSharp-Hoskins, Kellie
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New Mexico State University
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2019
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Ph.D.
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2019
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191 p.
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In this dissertation, I examine histories and possibilities for articulating disciplinary identity in TPC research, pedagogy, and practice in a case study of workflow communications at a non-profit organization focused on missionary, disaster relief, and microenterprise initiatives located in East Java, Indonesia and affiliated with an evangelical Christian denomination headquartered in the United States. I argue that considering most, if not all humans, engage with TPC-associated practices and their effects in rapidly-evolving, yet disparate ways, conversations regarding the field’s identity should continue to matter, and have also mattered unevenly in terms of clarifying the field’s boundaries and responding to geographical, technological and industry-related concerns. Utilizing critical and posthumanist theories, I develop a methodology which builds upon previous efforts to bring together a number of conversational strands (which have also been referred to as “narratives” or “silos”) of TPC disciplinary identity that have often been isolated from one another or overlooked in favor of a seemingly acultural focus on pragmatism and efficiency. Rather than concentrating on isolating one or more discrete and stabilized strands of identity, I utilize this methodology to locate moments where these identity strands surface and interact with one another to “narrate” TPC identity in ways that may be configured differently from one person or entity to the next. Through this research, I show how calling attention to the performativity and inra-activity of identity can provide finer-grained and more responsive analyses rather than simply multiplying static and isolated realms of knowledge and application in the field. This research also highlights an underexplored element of identity in TPC, religion, and its connections to the field’s movements toward greater inclusivity and social justice.
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Technical communication
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Sharp-Hoskins, Kellie
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New Mexico State University
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