Communication
Versions of a language with distinct vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciations
Distinguishable marks of pronunciations
What is accent?
The process that entails contact between two cultural groups, which results in numerous changes in both parties
What is acculturation?
What theory's assumption is this: over time and persistent exposure, mass media messages influence the audience's real world social perceptions is.
What is cultivation theory?
What theory's assumption is this: the process through which information that has been recently activated by media consumption is used to guide judgments regarding target outgroup members.
What is priming theory?
A set of words or terms shared by those with a common profession
What is jargon?
A specialized language used by a group to define boundaries
What is argot?
A stress reaction to challenging life events that are rooted in the experiences of acculturation
What is acculturative stress?
A set of concepts and relationship statements that enables one to understand, describe, explain, evaluate, predict, and control things
What is theory?
The research perspective from which intercultural communication research is primarily done
What is etic?
The process of selecting the language/dialect/accent/jargon to be used in a particular interaction based on the setting
What is code switching?
A voluntary, limited time visitor
What is a tourist?
A short term period of disorientation/discomfort due to the unfamiliarity of a new cultural environment
What is culture shock?
Verbal and/or nonverbal behaviors where communicators mimic one another's communication style
What is convergence?
An individual coping strategy explained in SIT where people seek positive distinctiveness by altering or redefining the comparison dimension of the group.
What is social creativity?
A voluntary or involuntary, limited time visitor with a specific purpose or goal usually related to work or study
What is a sojourner?
An individual with an unlimited time of stay in a new country who has obtained legal status for stay; Voluntary
What is an immigrant?
The acculturation strategy that requires the fewest changes in behavior
What is separation?
What is cultural identification/social comparison?
What theory's assumption is this: If ignorance and unfamiliarity promote stereotypes and negative perceptions of those outgroups, knowledge about groups and connections with outgroup members should reduce those biased and negative perceptions of outgroups.
What is intergroup contact hypothesis/theory?
An individual whose stay is unlimited and involuntary
What is a refugee?
The way that racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, etc. are interconnected and cannot be examined separately from one another.
What is intersectionality?
The acculturation strategies that leads to major heritage cultural loss and the appearance of many dysfunctional and deviant behaviors. This is the most stressful strategy.
What is marginalization?
The W-Curve Model assumes that the U-Curve Model of Adaptation is incomplete. What are the 6 stages of cultural adaptation in the W-Curve Model?
What is 1) arrival, 2) acculturative stress, 3) adaptation, 4) return home, 5) reverse acculturative stress, and 6) reintegration?
Name the 4 optimal conditions according to the contact hypothesis; which is the most important?
What is equal status, common goals, cooperative interactions, institutional support?