Part A

Part B

Name of U of A class or sport: COMM 3443: Intro Rhetorical Theory

Instructor: Meredith Neville-Shepard
 Part C: Step 1

Part C: Step 2
1. Shatha Abdulmohsen Alali

2. BUSINESS COMMUNICATION IN GLOBAL CONTEXTS: STUDYING THE

EXPERIENCES OF NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKING (NES) AND NON-NATIVE
ENGLISH SPEAKING (NNES) PROFESSIONALS IN MULTILINGUAL,
MULTICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS

3. 2019

4. Miami University

5. Alaili uses frames of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), and seeks to answer how NNES
and NES professionals communicate in multilingual, multicultural workplace environment
using English as a lingua franca.

6. The difference in perception of the role of culture between NNES and the NES professionals
is important to consider, perhaps pointing to differing understandings, particularly for NES
professionals, of their own cultural role in the communicative process.
7. This particular study would be important in my field, as within a business environment and
overall network, cultural communication can be a major challenge. When dissecting how
cross cultural communication is played out through different perspectives, this helps us
understand how cultural challenges and barriers within a communitive business environment
may be improved. If communication within a business is improved, it will most likely lead
to a more efficient, organized, and more productive business as well.

8. The study created, implemented, and strategized by Alali was well was thought out. Alaili is
a Saudi student, which gives him personal experience with cross cultural barriers as he
knows there may be challenges when he is an English speaker as well as coming from a
Saudi background. Personally, I myself, only know one language. That language is English.
If I would have to conduct a similar study, living in Texas and living around many Spanish
speakers, I would most likely and differently focus on a Spanish ethnic background when
emphasizing the cultural communication differences within a business environment that
works with the language “English”. Perhaps a different ethnic background being conducted
in this study would provide different results as well. The overall study conducted by Alali
was well organized, as I would also survey NNES and NES professionals with similar
questions as the ones created by Alali.
Part C: Step 3

1. Meredith Diane Neville-Shepard

2. 2014

3. FIRE, SACRIFICE, AND SOCIAL CHANGE: THE RHETORIC OF SELF

IMMOLATION

4. University of Kansas

5. The media’s influence in constructing stories about self-immolations and self-immolators

has been explored. These rhetorical narratives have helped shape the public’s
understanding and opinions of self-immolation as a protest form. Ultimately, however,
these opinions are of little value to those suffering injustice if people who have the means
to do so do not act. Particularly, we must not allow the ashes of Mohamed Bouazizi or
those of sacrificed Tibetans to turn to dust.