Chapter 5
It seeks to understand the differences in how people from a variety of cultures act, communicate, and perceive the world around them.
What is Intercultural Communication?
The Court has recognized that the First Amendment protects certain forms of symbolic speech. Flag burning is such a form of symbolic speech.
What is Freedom of Speech?
The concern is how identity influences and guides expectations about your own and others' social roles and provides guidelines for communication interaction with others.
What is the study of intercultural communication?
People from different cultures speaking different languages. For example, a 2009 U.S. Census report disclosed that over 19 percent of the U.S.
What is Functions of Language?
Because people use this message system to express ideas, attitudes, feelings, and emotions.
What is Expressing Internal States?
God, humanity, nature, questions of existence, the universe and cosmos, life, moral and ethical reasoning, suffering, death.
what is the world ruled by law, chance, or "God?"
Whale meat or blubber is consumed in Norway, Japan, some Caribbean nations, Russia, Canada, and the state of Alaska—either for subsistence, cultural, or commercial reasons.
What would you eat whale meat?
Some 2.7 percent of the survey respondents, representing over nine million U.S. Americans, identified themselves as belonging to two or more races.
What could report belonging to more then a single race?
The work of interpreters and translators is instrumental to the success of increased communication activities across cultural boundaries.
What is Interpreting and Translating?
The nonverbal inferences people use to construct their identities are drawn from a variety of messages.
What is Creating Identity?
There are many different ways to live a fulfilling life and it is up to us to find what makes the most sense to us personally.
What is the right way to live?
The reason is perception how diverse cultures have taught their members to look at the world in different ways.
What is the cause of these very different view?
In many cultures, teachers are afforded great social respect and deference by both students and the population as a whole.
What identity may influence influence intercultural interactions?
In the United States interpretation services are frequently used in health care centers, courtrooms, business conferences, and even classrooms.
What is Interpretation?
Nonverbal messages can be used as substitutes for words.
What is Substituting for Words?
At the same time worldviews deal with significant philosophical questions worldviews also govern life in smaller ways by providing direction for the more practical features of living.
What are the origins of the universe and how did life begin?
Subjective is a term that refers to someone's personal opinions or feelings regarding a particular subject matter.
What is your view of the word through a subjective?
During the formative years of the United States, immigrants often grouped together in a particular region to form ethnic communities, and as Chinatown in San Francisco and Little Italy in New York.
What ancestors' home of origin before immigrating to the United States?
Types of texts can vary widely, including official government documents, international contracts, scientific papers, and even novels and poetry.
What is Translation?
We now add that verbal and nonverbal messages often work in unison.
What is Verbal and Nonverbal Messages?
good and evil can describe moral/immoral actions, but they can also describe what we think is positive/good or negative/evil/bad in the world.
What is good and bad and right and wrong?
The dominant values of a culture may not be shared by all individuals within that culture.
What are more than your culture?
Which the majority of people associate with the nation where they were born. But national identity can also be acquired by immigration and naturalization.
What are National Identity?
Learning another language can be extremely demanding, requiring considerable time and effort, but the advantages are so numerous as to make the effort worthwhile.
What is Second Language Benefits?
Many people in the United States now use body piercing and tattooing to alter their appearance.
What is Appearance?