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CMST 317 Final
Intercultural Communication Final
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Undergraduate 4
05/04/2010

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High Context Culture
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reliance upon things being implicit - you just know
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Low context Culture
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Things are written down - not understood by all
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Intercultural Communication
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Process of being mobile
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Gundykintst - Social Alienation
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You're the one who doesn't know the rules, source of frustration, stress, anxiety; marked by the pressures to conform to culture
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Role Shock
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Unerstanding one's own status
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Cultural Fatigue
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burdened
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Education Shock
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Students; helpless, not being able to count money, hostility, anxiety, over-identification, home sickness, irritability, physically ill, confusion, intolerance, the need to establish an identity
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3 components of World Views
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Religion, Family, History of Government
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Hoebel & Frost - World Views
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Human beings inside view of the way things are colored, shaped, and arranged, according to cultural preconceptions
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When you change the language...
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You change the reality.
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Semantics
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Rules for how we use words
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Meanings are in people...
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NOT in words.
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2 parts of language
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Content dimension & Relational information
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Metacommunication
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messages about messages
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Directive VS. Non-Directive
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Extent to which launguage focuses
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Divergence vs. Convergence
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Convergence - One single answer - clear, distinct, reapplying known information
Divergence - the creative generation of multiple answers to a set problem
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Direct VS. Indirect
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'She's ugly' vs. 'She's not the most attractive woman in the world'
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Chatacteristic of Language
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Idea of productivity(novel/new), Displacement(Past present and future), Fades rapidly, Contextual, Arbitrary (symbols), Rule governed
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Alienation
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Attempt to retain individuality; often associate with rejection
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Marginality
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refers to a state of being excluded from the social fabric and being treated as an outsider.
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Acculturation
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A traveler adapts to the destination's culture, and they reject their own
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Duality
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Marked by flexibility, can go back and forth between cultures
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U curve
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Beliefsmodel of cultural adaptation when a person intends to stay in a hosts culture
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Monochronic Time
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time- schedules - prompt
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Polychronic Time
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Based on people and events, "do the jobe right" no matter how long it takes
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Three Cups of Tea Authors
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Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
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Steele & Redding
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Core Values;Puritan Pioneer Morality
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Attitude
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Behaviors we exhibit
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Beliefs that "spawn" attitudes
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1.Experimental - direct experience
2. Informational beliefs
3. Inferential beliefs
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Constructivist Theory
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(Interpretive) How internal processes construct intercultural realities; Cronen, Chen, Pierce
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Individual Encounters
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(Interaction) Gundykunst, Franklin, Stoke & Giles
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Change of Adatation
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(Culture Shock) (Networking) June Ack & Kim
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Berlo's Model of Communication
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~noise~Decode-A-Encode~noise~Encode-B-Decode~noise~
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Types of Intercultural Communication
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Interracial, Inrethnic, Co-Cultural, Intracultural, Perception (selects, evaluates, interprets), Verbal & Non-Verbal, World View
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Intercultural Effectiveness
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Explore ways to interact with ones in a way that other people are receptive - we're approachable
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4 Dimensions of Inturcultural Competentness
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Personality Attributes, Communication Skills, Phsychological Adaptation, Cultural Awareness
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Personality Attributes
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Self Disclosure, Self Awareness, Self concept, Social Relaxation (ambiguity)
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Communication Skills
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Messages ( Verbal & NV ), Social Skills, Flexibility (Context), Interaction Management
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Psychological Adaptation
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Stress, Frustration, Anxirty-> Ambiguity, Alienation
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Cultural Awareness
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Social Values, Social Norms, Social Systmes
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Ambiguity
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context-dependent: the same linguistic item (be it a word, phrase, or sentence) may be ambiguous in one context and unambiguous in another context. - Can be interpreted in more than one way
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Arbitrary
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Arbitrariness is a term given to choices and actions subject to individual will, judgment or preference, based solely upon an individual's opinion or discretion. (symbols are designated but don't posess any characteristics)
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