Gone Joseph P
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 530 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043, USA.
Am J Community Psychol. 2006 Jun;37(3-4):333-40. doi: 10.1007/s10464-006-9047-2.
Community action research among the Assiniboine and Gros Ventre tribes of the Fort Belknap Indian reservation in Montana was undertaken to identify the cultural grounds for innovative mental health service delivery. As an enrolled tribal member investigating these matters in my "home" community, however, I encountered a series of challenges and limitations emerging from respondent reservations about sharing personal experiences of difficulty and distress, and the perceived means for redressing these. Focusing upon a difficult interview with a knowledgeable tribal elder, I enlist sociolinguistic analysis--the study of communicative norms governing who talks with whom about what (and under which conditions)--as one crucial means to making sense of this complex research encounter. Similar analyses would seem necessary to ensuring the cultural validity of research conclusions in cross-cultural action research more generally.
在蒙大拿州贝尔纳普堡印第安人保留地的阿西尼博因部落和 Gros Ventre 部落中开展了社区行动研究，以确定创新心理健康服务提供的文化基础。然而，作为一名在“家乡”社区调查这些问题的注册部落成员，我遇到了一系列挑战和限制，这些挑战和限制源于受访者对分享困难和痛苦的个人经历以及纠正这些问题的公认方式有所保留。通过聚焦于与一位知识渊博的部落长者的艰难访谈，我运用社会语言学分析——研究关于谁与谁谈论什么（以及在何种情况下）的交际规范——作为理解这一复杂研究遭遇的关键手段之一。一般而言，类似的分析对于确保跨文化行动研究中研究结论的文化有效性似乎是必要的。
