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Ethnography of Communication (EOC) is a communication approach that stresses the need for understanding speech codes in order to create shared understanding and meaning within a cultural community. Speech codes are “a historically enacted socially constructed system of terms, meanings, premises and rules, pertaining to communicative conduct” (Gudykunst & Mody, 2002, p. 56). Communicative conduct refers to a communal conversation that is culturally distinctive and uses language heuristically (p. 59). EOC, when used alongside mediated communication such as audio, video, and web-based tools can enhance the student learning experience and provide learners with the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the diated contexts provide more than an add-on tool to help learners appreciate other cultures when situated within communication. Mediated communication can develop cultural sensitivity and even allow students the opportunity to experience an insider’s view of the cultural heritage, the language differences, as well as the patterns of speech often found in ethnically diverse literature. This article suggests that an applied communication approach using Dell Hymes’ framework, Ethnography of Communication, could serve as an intervention strategy to promote a greater sense of shared community by increasing member-shared knowledge based on speech codes, speech acts, and speech events within the college literature curriculum. The structure of this article includes three parts. First, I will introduce ethnography as a historical qualitative research method and demonstrate the validity of the method in deepening appreciation for the cultural environment. Second, I will present the applied communication framework of Ethnography of Communication and describe how this framework functions to enfold and empower speech acts, speech events, and speech situations within select speech communities. Third, I will use an inventive case study to demonstrate how applied communication in the literature curriculum could serve to increase student interaction, understanding, and

Ethnography of Communication in Praxis in the Literature Classroom