THe US government department developed to prepare US government workers to work more effectively internationally
What is the Foreign Service Institute
100
This research goal of this approach is to describe behavior
What is the interpretive approach?
100
This approach asserts that Culture is learned and shared and that culture is a variable that influences communication and can be measured.
What is a functionalist of social science approach?
100
This concept refers to the sense of favorable self-worth.
What is "face"?
100
This theory argues that in some situations, individuals change their communication patterns to accommodate others.
What is communication accommodation theory?
200
Developed by Edward T. Hall, this concept helps explain how people use personal space to communicate
What is "Proxemics"?
200
This approach employs methodologies to analyze large power structures that impact everyday life.
What is the critical approach?
200
This is a set form of systematic interactions that takes place on a regular basis.
What is a communication ritual?
200
This approach argues that culture is a site of power struggles
What is a critical approach?
200
These methods attempt to capture people's own meanings for the everyday behavior. They are designed to give greater depth of understanding to a particular problem or issues
What are qualitative methods?
300
Early scholars and trainers in intercultural communication often defined "culture" narrowly in terms of this...
What is Nationality?
300
This theory attempts to explain how and why people make particular conversational choices.
What is Conversational Constraints Theory?
300
This perspective (or approach) emphasis that the process by which we negotiate meaning is dynamic
What is an interpretive perspective?
300
"Such studies, with their lack of attention to face-to-face interactions may yeild less practical results" is a critique of which approach?
What is a critical approach?
300
THis is an intellectual, political and cultural movement that calls for the independence of colonialism and liberation from colonialist ways of thinking
What is postcolonialism?
400
This process helps to explain how prejudice functions in our lives through "normal" human cognitive activities such as categorization and generalization.
What is stereotyping?
400
This approach assumes that culture is a variable that can be measured.
What is the social science approach?
400
This approach emphasizes the processual, relational, and contradictory nature of intercultural communication.
What is a dialectical approach?
400
"Traditional values of humaneness and harmony" with nature is presented as one of the cultural themes within this framework
What is Afrocentricity?
400
This perspective on culture is concerned about societal forces and power dynamics
What is a critical perspective or approach
500
The assumption/hypothesis that language shares our ideas and guides our view of social reality.
What is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis?
500
Scholars who use this approach believe in subjective and material realities.
What is the critical approach?
500
The authors of our textbook ask the readers to keep four key components to consider in understanding intercultural communication. These are:
What are communication, culture, context, and power.
500
This approach stresses that culture is created and maintain through communication
What is an interpretive approach?
500
An identity that is consciously a mixture of different cultural identities and traditions