As an ethnographic sociolinguist, I observe and record encounters between people of differing faith practices in order to identify patterns that are creating communicative effective (or ineffective) dialogues. My interdisciplinary approach uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to focus the looking glass of linguistic practice on interreligious encounters to provide a clearer image of dialogue outcomes. As an applied sociolinguist, I then look for ways to use that data to assist groups in creating conversations that lead to understanding.
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(This) emergent analytical framework can be used to measure and understand
Measuring the Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Method for Analyzing Interreligious Dialogues
conversations about and between people’s diverse beliefs and faith practices and how the results can be applied to other multifaith interactions.