Publications
by Patricia Covarrubias
My academic career in communication studies
has been an active one since I began in 1994. The year 2002
saw the publication of my first book, Culture,
Communication,
and Cooperation: Interpersonal Relations and Pronominal
Address in a Mexican Organization, published
by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Specifically, my book, Culture, Communication,
and Cooperation is based on my doctoral dissertation
and focuses on the influences of pronominal address as deployed
in the Mexican workplace and on pronominally-mediated interpersonal
networks that in turn translate into networks of cooperation
among employees. In 1997 I spent seven months in Veracruz,
Mexico, conducting ethnographic fieldwork at Grupo Industrial
Gutierrez de Velasco, one of the state's principal construction
enterprises. My data and conclusions offer new insights and
a refined understanding of the nuanced role of culture in
the pronominally-negotiated strategies humans use to create,
affirm, and modify their particular humanity. My work also
furthered the argument that speech has a profound and enduring
influence on how organizational members participate together
to accomplish joint action (for instance, the potential influence
of address choices on employee morale). My dissertation is
theoretically grounded on the ethnography of communication
and speech codes theory.
In November 2000, my dissertation was awarded
the Outstanding Dissertation Award by the Language and Social
Interaction Division of the National Communication Association.
I was invited to compose an autobiographical essay, "Of
endearment and other terms of address: A Mexican perspective,"
published in AmongUS, an intercultural publication
co-edited by M. Lustig and J. Koester and published by Longman
in 2000. In addition to being a regular presenter at communication
conferences nationally and internationally, as further evidence
of my promise in the field of communication studies, I note
my Seafirst Bank Graduate Fellowship award for the academic
year 1997-1998.
A more complete list of recent publications
follows:
- Covarrubias, P. (forthcoming). The Ethnography of Communication.
In Littlejohn, S. and K. Foss (Eds.) Encyclopedia of
Communication Theory, Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
- Covarrubias, P. (forthcoming). Speech Codes Theory. In
Littlejohn, S. and K. Foss (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Communication
Theory, Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
- Covarrubias, P., & Windchief, S. (2009). Silences
in Stewardship: Some American Indian Examples. The Howard
Journal of Communications, 20, 3.
- Covarrubias, P. (2008). Masked Silence Sequences: Hearing
Discrimination in the College Classroom. Communication,
Culture & Critique, 1, 3, 227-252.
- Covarrubias, P. (2007). (Un)biased in Western theory:
Generative silence in American Indian communication. Communication
Monographs, 74, 2, 265-271.
- Covarrubias, P., & Turner, M. (Spring 2006). Cultural
Codes in Communication, a video production. This video produced
on DVD, conceived by Patricia Covarrubias and produced by
UNM undergraduate student Mike Turner, served as promotional
and teaching tool at a communication codes conference at
the University of Washington in May 2006.
- Covarrubias, P. (2005). Homemade talk: Language, identity,
and other Mexican legacies for a son’s intercultural
competence. In Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz (Ed.), From generation
to generation: Maintaining cultural identity over time.
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
- Philipsen, G., Coutu, L. M., & Covarrubias, P. (2005).
Speech Codes Theory: Revision, Restatement, and Response
to Criticisms. In William Gudykunst (Ed.), Theorizing
about communication and culture. Newbury Park, CA:
Sage Publications. (order of authorship beyond Philipsen
was selected at random)
- Covarrubias, P. (2000). Of endearment and other terms
of address: A Mexican perspective. In M. W. Lustig and J.
Koester (Eds.), AmongUS: Essays on identity, belonging,
and intercultural competence. New York: Longman.
- Philipsen, G., Aoki, E., Castor, T., Coutu, L., Covarrubias,
P., Jabs, L., Kane, M., & Winchatz, M. (1997). Reading
Ella Cara Deloria’s Waterlily for cultured speech.
Iowa Journal of Communication, 29, 31-49.
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