16 December.
Record of Person
Vernon LynnTyler
Global educator and creator of the Culturgrams. This record holds his work: the Culturgrams, his intercultural publications, and the research behind them, each catalogued as a source in its own right.
- Born
- 16 December 1929
- Died
- 1 July 2008
- Work
- Director of Intercultural CommunicationsKennedy Center, Brigham Young University
- Record
- Being catalogued
His life
iProvo, Tonga, and the Culturgrams.
Meets Arlean Kerby in October, as captioned in her collage.
Labor missionaries in Tonga with Arlean Kerby Tyler; his obituary adds Samoa.
Records interviews in Tonga about the March 1961 hurricane, later drawn on in BYU’s Saints of Tonga.
Asked to develop a leadership and training program for the college ward, as a letter of May 1962 records.
Brigham Young University, with a thesis on the Pacific Board of Education’s religious education program.
Edits A Study of Cultural and Religious Characteristics and Influences: Tonga for the Church schools.
Prepares the Culturgrams and other intercultural publications at Brigham Young University.
A family history in his voice, signed by him and Arlean Kerby Tyler. Catalogued in Arlean’s record.
Gives his research for Discoveries: Worlds of Our Campuses to BYU’s special collections.
1 July.
His work
iiPeoples and cultures.
Creator and editorSeries
Culturgrams
Short guides to the countries and cultures of the world, created at Brigham Young University. Volume 1, The Nations Around Us, appears under his name as editor.
Read a review ↗AuthorLanguage Research Center
Into Intercultural Communication
Experiential learning packets for reaching beyond one’s own culture: cultural influence, culture shock, and how to learn about the cultures one will meet.
Read at ERIC ↗Author1978
Intercultural Communication Indicators
A “Languetics” Model. On the cultural differences and similarities that hinder or help communication between cultures. Annals of the International Communication Association 2.
Read the abstract ↗Author1978
Enhancing Intercultural Communication
A Languetic Model. Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium, volume 4.
Read at ScholarsArchive ↗AuthorThesis, 1964
The Religious Education Program of the Pacific Board of Education
A study of the religious education program in the Church’s Pacific schools.
Read at ScholarsArchive ↗Editor1969
A Study of Cultural and Religious Characteristics and Influences: Tonga
Prepared for the Church schools, Salt Lake City. BYU’s Religious Studies Center cites it in its history of the Church in Tonga.
Church SchoolsAuthorBook
Discoveries: Worlds of Our Campuses
An Eventory. Its drafts, correspondence, maps, and models are held with two finished copies in his research materials at BYU.
Collection MSS 5939Journals
iiiCollections
ivHeld at Brigham Young University.
- MSS 721
- Culturgrams and other intercultural publications, 1975–1989. Correspondence, research, and publications on the making of the Culturgrams, prepared by V. Lynn Tyler.
- UA 721
- David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies culturgrams and other intercultural publications, 1975–1989. University Archives.
- MSS 5939
- Tyler (V. Lynn) research materials, 1970–1996. Research for Discoveries: Worlds of Our Campuses, donated in 2007.
All three are in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library.
Sources
vWhere this comes from.
- “Obituary: Vernon Lynn Tyler”, Deseret News, 6 July 2008: BYU, the Kennedy Center, the Culturgrams, and labor missions in Tonga and Samoa.
- Saints of Tonga, Appendix A, “Accounts of the 1961 Tonga Hurricane”, BYU Religious Studies Center: his interviews of 29 March and 1 April 1961.
- J. Gordon Daines III, “Training Teachers and Learning to Lead,” Religious Educator 24, no. 1 (2023): the Church College of Hawaii, citing his correspondence of 1960–62 in the Church History Library.
- “Church Growth in Tonga”, BYU Religious Studies Center: the 1969 Tonga study.
- L. Tom Perry Special Collections, BYU: catalogue records for MSS 721, UA 721, and MSS 5939.
- Review of Culturgrams: The Nations Around Us, vol. 1, ed. V. Lynn Tyler, Explorations in Ethnic Studies 6, no. 1.
- ERIC ED085797: Into Intercultural Communication: Experiential Learning Packets.
- “Intercultural Communication Indicators (A ‘Languetics’ Model)”, Annals of the International Communication Association 2 (1978).
- “Enhancing Intercultural Communication: A Languetic Model”, Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium 4 (1978).
- BYU ScholarsArchive: “The Religious Education Program of the Pacific Board of Education.”
- Dates and family facts from the family’s records, with the record of Arlean Kerby Tyler.