Human language
Languages across cultures
Cross Cultural Verbal Communication Styles
100
Rules that concern the features of meaning we attach to words.
What is syntatic rules?
100
The correct term for switching to another language or dialect to increase/decrease the intergroup distance.
What is code-switching?
100
A communication form that emphasize with how intention or meaning is best expressed through explicit verbal messages.
What is low-context communication?
200
Three distinctive features that each human language consists of.
What is arbitrariness, multilayered rules and speech community?
200
In these cultures the family name precede the personal name to signal importance of family identity over personal identity.
What are Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese cultures (asian cultures)?
200
This verbal style is individual-centered and represent informality and role suspension.
What is person-oriented style?
300
A group of individuals who share a common set of norms and rules regarding proper communicative practices.
What is a speech community?
300
Groups that can get away with using borrowed words and phrases.
What are groups of perceived high social status?
300
A communication form that emphasize with how intention or meaning best can be conveyed through the context.
What is high-context communication?
400
A set of rules that refer to how different sounds combine to make up a meaningful word or parts of a word
What is morphological rules?
400
Groups of perceived low social status will be viewed like this if using borrowed language.
What is someone who engages in impure language usage?
400
This verbal style is role-centered and represent formality and large power distance.
What is status-oriented style?
500
Five sets of rules, that all human languages are structured around (name min. four).
What is phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics?
500
A hypothesis which believes that the grammars of different languages constitute separate conceptual realities for members of different cultures and that we experience different cognitions and sensations through our linguistic systems
What is the Sapir Whorf hypothesis?
500
Two verbal styles where one emphasizes the importance of boasting about one’s accomplishments and abilities, and the other emphasizes the importance of humbling oneself via verbal restraints, hesitations, modest talk and the use of self-deprecation concerning one’s effort or performance.
What is self-enhancement and self-effacement verbal styles?