Contextual Backgrounds Research Articles

A Cultural and Contextual Decision Path Approach to Career Assessment With Native Americans: A Psychological Perspective

A method to include the unique cultural and contextual backgrounds of Native Americans into the career assessment process is discussed in this article. The cultural and contextual differential assessment method focuses on five cultural differentials that are language usage, cultural orientation, home community, family system, and communication style. Cultural and Contextual Decision Paths are identified that provide practical guides for use by counselors and clients.

On Japanese intonation: An experiment

This writer conducted an experiment on Japanese “interrogative intonations”. Several patterns (recorded on tape) of one and the same expression Nanio yatteruno (/What are you doing/) were read to the subjects, who were then asked to determine which given utterances were most likely to match which given situations. The writer's assumption regarding certain correspondences between the intonational patterns and their “meanings”, tested in actual contextual backgrounds, has been proved valid as far as this test is concerned.