Intercultural Communication Ch. 3

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Communication

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A symbolic process whereby reality is produced, maintained, repaired, and transformed

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Communication Ritual

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A set form of systematic interactions that take place on a regular basis

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Cultural Values

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The worldview of a cultural group and its set of deeply held beliefs

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6 Definitions of Culture

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1. Unique human efforts
2. Refinement, mannerism
3. Cilivization
4. Shared language, beliefs, and values
5. Dominant or hegemonic culture
6. The shifting tensions between the shared and unshared

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Social Science definition of culture

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A set of learned, group-related perceptions

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Interpretive definition of culture

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shared and learned...but they tend to focus on contextual patterns of communication bahavior, rather than on group-related perceptions

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Critical definition of culture

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Emphasizes the hetergeneity of cultural groups and often conflictual nature of cultural boundaries

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Long term vs. Short term orientation

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A cultural variability dimension that reflects a cultural group orientation toward virtue or truth. The long term orientation emphasizes virtue, whereas the short term orientation emphasizes truth

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Masculinity-Femininity value

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A cultural variability dimension that concerns the degree of being feminie-valuing fluid gender roles, quality of life, service, relationships, and interdependence, and the degree of being masculine-emphasizes distinctive gender roles, ambition, materialism, and independence

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Performative

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Acting or presenting oneself in a speific way so as to accomplish some goal

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Power distance (High & Low)

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A cultural variability dimension that concerns the extent to which people accept an unequal distribution of power

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Uncertainty Avoidance

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A cultural variability dimension that concerns the extent to which uncertainty, ambiguity, and deviant ideas and behaviors are avoided

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Kluckhorn & Strodtbeck Value Orientations

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Study Page 102...Table 3.3

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Symbolic Significance

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The importance or meaning that most members of a cultural group attach to a communication activity

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How culture influences communication

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Kluckhohn & Strodtebeck Value Orrientations

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How communicatioin influences culture

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Kluckhohn & Strodtebeck Value Orrientations

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Speaking Framework

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Set, participant, end, act sequence, key, instrmentality, norm, ad genre

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The relationship between communication and context

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Context typically is created by the physical or social aspects of the situation in which communication occurs

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The relationship between communication and power

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People in power, consciously or unconsciously, create and maintain communication systems that reflect, reinforce, and promote their owen ways of thinking and communicating