Alien Corn: Agriculture and Intercultural Communication
Ron Scollon
Thursday, 02 Dec 2004 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Ron Scollon is a professor of sociolinguistics at Georgetown University and editor for Visual Communications. His current research focuses on discourses of food in the world system, and he will use examples from the project to discuss how intercultural communication factors into global issues of corn production and distribution. Selected Publications: Discourse and Technology: Multimodal Discourse Analysis; Nexus Analysis: Discourse and the Emerging Internet; Professional Communication in International Settings; and Intercultural Communication: A Discourse Approach. Quentin Johnson Lecture in Linguistics
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