William K Rawlins
Biographic Data
| ID | 97645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William K Rawlins |
| GIVEN NAMES | William K |
| FAMILY NAME | Rawlins |
| SIGNATURE | RAWLINS W K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Living Eastern and Western Understandings of Dialogue and Narrating Practices of Language Revitalization in Tibet
This essay dramatizes three key characteristics of dialogue shared between Eastern and Western voices. They have been vividly enacted during the first author's ongoing 7-year ethnographic encounters with Tibetans organizing through communicative relationships to preserve their mother tongue. Emerging from the intertexuality among Zhuang Zi's and Martin Buber's ideas and the (auto)ethnographic activities involved in composing this account, the cha…
Symbols and Artifacts: Views of the Corporate Landscape
"A selection of 18 papers from an international conference in Milan, June 1987, organized by the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism. Details how corporate artifacts are invested with meaning, are related to control, and can be used as cultural indicators in research. Among the topics are office design, housing modifications, computer systems, and the space shuttle. Fairly devoid of specialist jargon."--Provided by publisher
Singing Our Songs, Listening, and Co-Fashioning Possibilities
In this contribution to our forum, “Communicating Critical Qualitative Research Departures,” David Carless reflects on the self-revelations and vulnerabilities that reflexively accompany arts-based inquiry in his piece entitled “It's a Leap of Faith, Writing a Song.” In attempting to express fresh or risky understandings in creative ways like composing and singing songs, Carless celebrates the uptake of a good listener. Having his early songwriti…
Exploring Languages Preservation in Kham Tibet, Learning From "Discourse in the Novel," and Writing a Dialogical/Bakhtinian Ethnography
This essay pursues three interrelated and reflexively challenging objectives. First, we celebrate Mikhail Bakhtin's "Discourse in the Novel" as constituting a singular primer for writing and accomplishing dialogical ethnography. Second, we exemplify and dramatize its lessons by relating stories and practices of the first author's 4-year ongoing field study and involvement with languages preservation, community enhancement, and social transformati…
Elusive Dialogues
In this contribution to our forum, “Communicating Critical Qualitative Research Departures,” Boris H. J. M. Brummans offers a compelling meditation on the elusive achievement, humanizing potentials, and ethical demands of dialogue entitled “Dialoguing with the Unborn, the Unconscious, and the Dead.” Brummans is concerned with “sustaining a sense of dialogue” under conditions wherein its possibility is muted. How might we aspire to edifying connec…
Summoning Compassionate Living and Co-Learning
The latest contribution to our forum, “Communicating Critical Qualitative Research Departures,” is an edifying piece by Kristen C. Blinne entitled “Applying (Com)passion in the Academy,” in which she challenges the pervasive and soul-sapping pressures on us as scholars
Stranger than Fiction , Answerability, and Co-Authoring a Life
This essay explores how characters’ actions in the film Stranger than Fiction demonstrate the ethics and aesthetics of authoring our own and others’ lives as developed in Mikhail Bakhtin's “Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity.” Our lives are open events requiring response and co-authoring from others with different worldviews to achieve consummation of our own becoming. I probe how the film dramatizes our indebtedness to others, our answerabili…
Justice! Ay! Ay! Ayotzinapa: A Challenge for New Critical Qualitative Inquiry
Continued Openings
Research Article| December 01 2014 Continued Openings: A Renewed Invitation to Reflect on Critical Qualitative Research William K. Rawlins William K. Rawlins William K. Rawlins is the Stocker Professor of Communication Studies in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Correspondence to: William K. Rawlins, School of Communication Studies, Ohio University, L…
Performance Giving Life to Life
In this essay I narrate my coming to performance studies as involving consciousness of the potentials of enacted moments to give life to life. I recall how experiencing and performing language-use, music and singing, and learning with others were interwoven to create this understanding.Keywords: MusicSingingPerformance studiesLearningConsciousness I thank Sandy Rawlins for her careful reading and constructive suggestions in writing this essay.I t…
Brimming Moments
In this piece I meditate on vital interrelationships among rhythm, will, readiness, and grace in cultivating thresholds of embodied, aesthetic, and edifying activities with other persons. Every moment of our lives holds potential for change—for noticing or becoming something new. This is so in our daily activities as ordinary persons and as scholars seeking to learn about, appraise, and (re)present our own and others’ practices. But how do the ev…
Living Scholarship: A Field Report
Friendship: Interpersonal Aspects
Friendship refers to a broad category of positively disposed interpersonal relationships characterized by varying degrees of equality, mutual good will, affection and/or assistance. People employ the word friend to describe a recent acquaintance, a longtime co‐worker, a family member, a romantic partner, or an irreplaceable individual they have known for years. Friendship also complements, fuses with, competes with, or substitutes for other perso…
Bateson, Gregory (1904–1980)
Gregory Bateson was a Cambridge‐educated anthropologist whose life's work spanned and influenced many academic fields, including anthropology, communication, education, psychotherapy, and sociology. Using cybernetic concepts to theorize human–environmental interaction in holistic and recursive ways, Bateson developed sophisticated and continually evolving accounts of reflexive relationships among culture, consciousness, communication, levels of m…
Enabling Reflexivity in a Mentoring Relationship
This essay enacts a performance space in which the authors explore (an) "enabling" reflexivity through reconstructed conversations and a dialogic metanarrative about their evolving relationship as doctoral student and advisor. They narrate turning points, setbacks, and triumphs that show their struggles to evolve as intellectuals deeply committed to embodying the beneficial interrelations among their public and private dialogues. Their goal is to…
Teaching as a Mode of Friendship
This essay invites us to consider that we can live and practice teaching as a mode of friendship. This approach involves developing a caring relationship with students, searching for means and moments of speaking as equals, and encouraging shared responsibility for learning together. Educational friendship emphasizes positive and edifying communicative stances and relationships of teachers with individual students and toward classes as collective…
Theorizing Public and Private Domains and Practices of Communication: Introductory Concerns
Journal Article Theorizing Public and Private Domains and Practices of Communication: Introductory Concerns Get access William K. Rawlins William K. Rawlins 1William K. Rawlins is professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Communication at Purdue University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 8, Issue 4, 1 November 1998, Pages 369–380, https://doi.org/10.1111/…
Friendship Matters: Communication, Dialectics, and the Life Course
Adult Friendship
A Dialectical Analysis of the Tensions, Functions, and Strategic Challenges of Communication in Young Adult Friendships
This monograph synthesizes selected findings from an ongoing program of empirical and theoretical research regarding the nature and functions of communication in young adult friendships. It argues that friendship involves inherent dialectical tensions as a specific category of interpersonal relationship within American culture, in the actual communicative practices of friends, and within and across developmental periods of the life cycle. First a…
Cultural Double Agency and the Pursuit of Friendship
Adolescents' Interaction with Parents and Friends: Dialectics of Temporal Perspective and Evaluation
This research investigated the management of interaction with parents and friends as described by thirty-two high school juniors in open-ended interviews. An interpretive analysis of the respondents' remarks identified two dialectical principles informing their decisions to talk with parents and/or friends. The dialectic of historical perspective and contemporary experience regards opposing temporal orientations by parents and friends towards ado…
Gregory Bateson and the composition of human communication
(1987). Gregory Bateson and the composition of human communication. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 20, Multichannel Communication Codes: Part I, pp. 53-77
Interpretive Stance and Gender-Role Research
Additional informationNotes on contributorsWilliam K. RawlinsMr. Rawlins is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at Pennsylvania State University. He would like to thank Sandy P. Rawlins and Linda A. M. Perry for reading and commenting upon earlier drafts of this essay
Openness as problematic in ongoing friendships: Two conversational dilemmas 1
This research investigated the management of interactions sustaining close friendships. Ten pairs of close friends were interviewed individually on two occasions and together on a third occasion. An interpretive analysis of subjects’ remarks identified a dialectical principle organizing the communicative practices of these relationships. The dialectic of expressiveness and protectiveness regards the decisions of self to reveal and conceal persona…
Negotiating Close Friendship: The Dialectic of Conjunctive Freedoms
An empirical study was conducted to investigate the practical management of interactions sustaining close friendships. Ten pairs of close friends were interviewed individually on two occasions and together on a third occasion. An interpretive analysis of subjects' remarks identified a dialectical principle governing the communicative organization of friendship. The dialectic of the freedom to be independent/freedom to be dependent conceptualizes …
Openness as problematic in ongoing friendships: Two conversational dilemmas 1
This research investigated the management of interactions sustaining close friendships. Ten pairs of close friends were interviewed individually on two occasions and together on a third occasion. An interpretive analysis of subjects’ remarks identified a dialectical principle organizing the communicative practices of these relationships. The dialectic of expressiveness and protectiveness regards the decisions of self to reveal and conceal persona…
Adolescents' Interaction with Parents and Friends: Dialectics of Temporal Perspective and Evaluation
This research investigated the management of interaction with parents and friends as described by thirty-two high school juniors in open-ended interviews. An interpretive analysis of the respondents' remarks identified two dialectical principles informing their decisions to talk with parents and/or friends. The dialectic of historical perspective and contemporary experience regards opposing temporal orientations by parents and friends towards ado…
A Dialectical Analysis of the Tensions, Functions, and Strategic Challenges of Communication in Young Adult Friendships
This monograph synthesizes selected findings from an ongoing program of empirical and theoretical research regarding the nature and functions of communication in young adult friendships. It argues that friendship involves inherent dialectical tensions as a specific category of interpersonal relationship within American culture, in the actual communicative practices of friends, and within and across developmental periods of the life cycle. First a…
Enabling Reflexivity in a Mentoring Relationship
This essay enacts a performance space in which the authors explore (an) "enabling" reflexivity through reconstructed conversations and a dialogic metanarrative about their evolving relationship as doctoral student and advisor. They narrate turning points, setbacks, and triumphs that show their struggles to evolve as intellectuals deeply committed to embodying the beneficial interrelations among their public and private dialogues. Their goal is to…
Teaching as a Mode of Friendship
This essay invites us to consider that we can live and practice teaching as a mode of friendship. This approach involves developing a caring relationship with students, searching for means and moments of speaking as equals, and encouraging shared responsibility for learning together. Educational friendship emphasizes positive and edifying communicative stances and relationships of teachers with individual students and toward classes as collective…
Exploring Languages Preservation in Kham Tibet, Learning From "Discourse in the Novel," and Writing a Dialogical/Bakhtinian Ethnography
This essay pursues three interrelated and reflexively challenging objectives. First, we celebrate Mikhail Bakhtin's "Discourse in the Novel" as constituting a singular primer for writing and accomplishing dialogical ethnography. Second, we exemplify and dramatize its lessons by relating stories and practices of the first author's 4-year ongoing field study and involvement with languages preservation, community enhancement, and social transformati…
Justice! Ay! Ay! Ayotzinapa: A Challenge for New Critical Qualitative Inquiry
Gregory Bateson and the composition of human communication
(1987). Gregory Bateson and the composition of human communication. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 20, Multichannel Communication Codes: Part I, pp. 53-77
Living Eastern and Western Understandings of Dialogue and Narrating Practices of Language Revitalization in Tibet
This essay dramatizes three key characteristics of dialogue shared between Eastern and Western voices. They have been vividly enacted during the first author's ongoing 7-year ethnographic encounters with Tibetans organizing through communicative relationships to preserve their mother tongue. Emerging from the intertexuality among Zhuang Zi's and Martin Buber's ideas and the (auto)ethnographic activities involved in composing this account, the cha…
Performance Giving Life to Life
In this essay I narrate my coming to performance studies as involving consciousness of the potentials of enacted moments to give life to life. I recall how experiencing and performing language-use, music and singing, and learning with others were interwoven to create this understanding.Keywords: MusicSingingPerformance studiesLearningConsciousness I thank Sandy Rawlins for her careful reading and constructive suggestions in writing this essay.I t…
Friendship: Interpersonal Aspects
Friendship refers to a broad category of positively disposed interpersonal relationships characterized by varying degrees of equality, mutual good will, affection and/or assistance. People employ the word friend to describe a recent acquaintance, a longtime co‐worker, a family member, a romantic partner, or an irreplaceable individual they have known for years. Friendship also complements, fuses with, competes with, or substitutes for other perso…
Theorizing Public and Private Domains and Practices of Communication: Introductory Concerns
Journal Article Theorizing Public and Private Domains and Practices of Communication: Introductory Concerns Get access William K. Rawlins William K. Rawlins 1William K. Rawlins is professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Communication at Purdue University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 8, Issue 4, 1 November 1998, Pages 369–380, https://doi.org/10.1111/…
Friendship Matters: Communication, Dialectics, and the Life Course
Openness as problematic in ongoing friendships: Two conversational dilemmas 1
This research investigated the management of interactions sustaining close friendships. Ten pairs of close friends were interviewed individually on two occasions and together on a third occasion. An interpretive analysis of subjects’ remarks identified a dialectical principle organizing the communicative practices of these relationships. The dialectic of expressiveness and protectiveness regards the decisions of self to reveal and conceal persona…
Negotiating Close Friendship: The Dialectic of Conjunctive Freedoms
An empirical study was conducted to investigate the practical management of interactions sustaining close friendships. Ten pairs of close friends were interviewed individually on two occasions and together on a third occasion. An interpretive analysis of subjects' remarks identified a dialectical principle governing the communicative organization of friendship. The dialectic of the freedom to be independent/freedom to be dependent conceptualizes …
Interpretive Stance and Gender-Role Research
Additional informationNotes on contributorsWilliam K. RawlinsMr. Rawlins is Assistant Professor of Speech Communication at Pennsylvania State University. He would like to thank Sandy P. Rawlins and Linda A. M. Perry for reading and commenting upon earlier drafts of this essay
Gregory Bateson and the composition of human communication
(1987). Gregory Bateson and the composition of human communication. Research on Language and Social Interaction: Vol. 20, Multichannel Communication Codes: Part I, pp. 53-77
Adolescents' Interaction with Parents and Friends: Dialectics of Temporal Perspective and Evaluation
This research investigated the management of interaction with parents and friends as described by thirty-two high school juniors in open-ended interviews. An interpretive analysis of the respondents' remarks identified two dialectical principles informing their decisions to talk with parents and/or friends. The dialectic of historical perspective and contemporary experience regards opposing temporal orientations by parents and friends towards ado…
A Dialectical Analysis of the Tensions, Functions, and Strategic Challenges of Communication in Young Adult Friendships
This monograph synthesizes selected findings from an ongoing program of empirical and theoretical research regarding the nature and functions of communication in young adult friendships. It argues that friendship involves inherent dialectical tensions as a specific category of interpersonal relationship within American culture, in the actual communicative practices of friends, and within and across developmental periods of the life cycle. First a…
Cultural Double Agency and the Pursuit of Friendship
Friendship Matters: Communication, Dialectics, and the Life Course
Adult Friendship
Theorizing Public and Private Domains and Practices of Communication: Introductory Concerns
Journal Article Theorizing Public and Private Domains and Practices of Communication: Introductory Concerns Get access William K. Rawlins William K. Rawlins 1William K. Rawlins is professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Communication at Purdue University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 8, Issue 4, 1 November 1998, Pages 369–380, https://doi.org/10.1111/…
Teaching as a Mode of Friendship
This essay invites us to consider that we can live and practice teaching as a mode of friendship. This approach involves developing a caring relationship with students, searching for means and moments of speaking as equals, and encouraging shared responsibility for learning together. Educational friendship emphasizes positive and edifying communicative stances and relationships of teachers with individual students and toward classes as collective…
Enabling Reflexivity in a Mentoring Relationship
This essay enacts a performance space in which the authors explore (an) "enabling" reflexivity through reconstructed conversations and a dialogic metanarrative about their evolving relationship as doctoral student and advisor. They narrate turning points, setbacks, and triumphs that show their struggles to evolve as intellectuals deeply committed to embodying the beneficial interrelations among their public and private dialogues. Their goal is to…
Living Scholarship: A Field Report
Friendship: Interpersonal Aspects
Friendship refers to a broad category of positively disposed interpersonal relationships characterized by varying degrees of equality, mutual good will, affection and/or assistance. People employ the word friend to describe a recent acquaintance, a longtime co‐worker, a family member, a romantic partner, or an irreplaceable individual they have known for years. Friendship also complements, fuses with, competes with, or substitutes for other perso…
Bateson, Gregory (1904–1980)
Gregory Bateson was a Cambridge‐educated anthropologist whose life's work spanned and influenced many academic fields, including anthropology, communication, education, psychotherapy, and sociology. Using cybernetic concepts to theorize human–environmental interaction in holistic and recursive ways, Bateson developed sophisticated and continually evolving accounts of reflexive relationships among culture, consciousness, communication, levels of m…
Brimming Moments
In this piece I meditate on vital interrelationships among rhythm, will, readiness, and grace in cultivating thresholds of embodied, aesthetic, and edifying activities with other persons. Every moment of our lives holds potential for change—for noticing or becoming something new. This is so in our daily activities as ordinary persons and as scholars seeking to learn about, appraise, and (re)present our own and others’ practices. But how do the ev…
Continued Openings
Research Article| December 01 2014 Continued Openings: A Renewed Invitation to Reflect on Critical Qualitative Research William K. Rawlins William K. Rawlins William K. Rawlins is the Stocker Professor of Communication Studies in the School of Communication Studies at Ohio University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Correspondence to: William K. Rawlins, School of Communication Studies, Ohio University, L…
Performance Giving Life to Life
In this essay I narrate my coming to performance studies as involving consciousness of the potentials of enacted moments to give life to life. I recall how experiencing and performing language-use, music and singing, and learning with others were interwoven to create this understanding.Keywords: MusicSingingPerformance studiesLearningConsciousness I thank Sandy Rawlins for her careful reading and constructive suggestions in writing this essay.I t…
Stranger than Fiction , Answerability, and Co-Authoring a Life
This essay explores how characters’ actions in the film Stranger than Fiction demonstrate the ethics and aesthetics of authoring our own and others’ lives as developed in Mikhail Bakhtin's “Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity.” Our lives are open events requiring response and co-authoring from others with different worldviews to achieve consummation of our own becoming. I probe how the film dramatizes our indebtedness to others, our answerabili…
Justice! Ay! Ay! Ayotzinapa: A Challenge for New Critical Qualitative Inquiry
Elusive Dialogues
In this contribution to our forum, “Communicating Critical Qualitative Research Departures,” Boris H. J. M. Brummans offers a compelling meditation on the elusive achievement, humanizing potentials, and ethical demands of dialogue entitled “Dialoguing with the Unborn, the Unconscious, and the Dead.” Brummans is concerned with “sustaining a sense of dialogue” under conditions wherein its possibility is muted. How might we aspire to edifying connec…
Summoning Compassionate Living and Co-Learning
The latest contribution to our forum, “Communicating Critical Qualitative Research Departures,” is an edifying piece by Kristen C. Blinne entitled “Applying (Com)passion in the Academy,” in which she challenges the pervasive and soul-sapping pressures on us as scholars
Symbols and Artifacts: Views of the Corporate Landscape
"A selection of 18 papers from an international conference in Milan, June 1987, organized by the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism. Details how corporate artifacts are invested with meaning, are related to control, and can be used as cultural indicators in research. Among the topics are office design, housing modifications, computer systems, and the space shuttle. Fairly devoid of specialist jargon."--Provided by publisher
Singing Our Songs, Listening, and Co-Fashioning Possibilities
In this contribution to our forum, “Communicating Critical Qualitative Research Departures,” David Carless reflects on the self-revelations and vulnerabilities that reflexively accompany arts-based inquiry in his piece entitled “It's a Leap of Faith, Writing a Song.” In attempting to express fresh or risky understandings in creative ways like composing and singing songs, Carless celebrates the uptake of a good listener. Having his early songwriti…
Exploring Languages Preservation in Kham Tibet, Learning From "Discourse in the Novel," and Writing a Dialogical/Bakhtinian Ethnography
This essay pursues three interrelated and reflexively challenging objectives. First, we celebrate Mikhail Bakhtin's "Discourse in the Novel" as constituting a singular primer for writing and accomplishing dialogical ethnography. Second, we exemplify and dramatize its lessons by relating stories and practices of the first author's 4-year ongoing field study and involvement with languages preservation, community enhancement, and social transformati…
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