The Basics
The study of communication that takes place between unlike individuals, typically from different national cultures.
What is Intercultural Communication?
These researchers offered starting points for cultural comparison.
Who are Hall and Hofstede?
Hall divided culture into two different contexts called short and tall context cultures. True or False?
False, what are high and low context cultures?
A social scientific theory which argues that to have effective intercultural communication it is critical to overcome and manage uncertainty and anxiety.
What is Anxiety Uncertainty Management of Meaning theory?
There are ____ types of intercultural communication. (give a number)
What is 4? They are cross-cultural, interethnic, interracial, and international communication?
The world event which helped address the need for practical frameworks not based solely on linguistics.
What is World War 2?
Discovered the AUMM theory.
Who is William Gudykunst?
Proxemics is the study of space.
True
The theory which is based on the idea that language use and style convey information about individuals' statuses, cultural backgrounds, and group memberships.
What is ethnolinguistic identity theory?
Name two elements that make-up Hofstede's Dimensions of Cultural Variability
What are individualism/collectivism and masculinity/femininity?
The three distinct cultural factors that Hall delineated.
What are context, time, and space?
The two researchers which started work in the field of intercultural communication with psychoanalytic theory.
Who are Whorf and Freud?
Nordic countries are an example of countries which emphasize femininity over masculinity.
True
The theory which began work in intercultural communication.
What is the psychoanalytic theory?
Communication includes multiple contextual elements and much of communication is implied in________. (Name at least one country which this applies to)
What is Brazil, France, or Asian nations?
Studying the same phenomena in different cultures.
What is cross-cultural communication?
These researchers addressed the concept of intercultural competence.
Cupach and Spitzberg.
High context cultures are made of explicit and open communication. Little is left for miscommunication/misinterpretation.
False. These are elements which make up a low-context culture.
A descriptive process of cultural outsiders abandoning their cultural identities to better communicate and culturally "fit" with individuals in a dominant culture.
What is Cultural Adaptation Theory?
The three stages of cultural adaptation theory are ______, _______, and _______.
What are enculturation, deculturation, and acculturation?
The two types of time which Hall defined.
What is monochronic and polychronic time?
Who is Edward Hall?
In monochronic time, individuals multitask more.
False, individuals tend to do one thing at a time.
One of the main features of the ethnolinguistic theory.
What are status, demographics, or support.
Dealing with emotions represents _____ intercultural competence.
What is affective intercultural competence?