Intercultural FInal Flashcards
Elaborate Style
frequent use of metaphors, proverbs, and other figurative language; found in most Arab and Latino cultures. Part of rules for conversation.
Succinct Style
give precisely the amount of information necessary; preference for understatement and long pauses; found in Japanese American, Native American and Chinese American cultures. Part of rules for conversation.
Personal Style
emphasis on conversations in which the individual is the center of action. Part of rules for conversation.
Contextual Style
emphasis is on the social roles that people have in relationships with others. Part of rules for conversation.
Instrumental Style
communication is goal-oriented and depends on explicit verbal messages. Part of rules for conversation.
Affective Style
More emotional and require sensitivity to the underlying meanings in both the verbal and nonverbal code systems
Activation
A dimension of interpersonal relationships regarding the ways people react to the world around them. Some people seem very quick,excitable, energetic, and lively; others value calmness, peacefulness, and a sense of inner control..
Control Face
A type of face need concerned with individual requirements for freedom and personal authority; related to people’s need for others to acknowledge their individual autonomy and self-sufficiency
Approval Face
A type of face need deals with individual requirements for affiliation and social contact; related to people’s need for other to acknowledge their friendliness and honesty
Admiration Face
A type of face need concerned with individual needs for displays of respect from others; people’s need for others to acknowledge their talents and accomplishments
Anxiety/Uncertainty Management theory
William B. Gudykunst revised version of Uncertainty Reduction Theory.
clearly focuses on intercultural communication, incorporates the emotional or motivational component of intercultural competence, and emphasizes ways to cope with or manage inherent tensions and anxieties that inevitably occur in intercultural encounters
What is effected by your expectations about future interactions with another person?
Part of the Anxiety/Uncertainty Management Theory.
Varies on whether or not you will interact with person again. If you think that you will interact with the person again, you will want less ambiguity. If you won’t interact with the person again, you will be more willing to be uncertain reg8arding the person’s motives and intentions
Interaction Scenes
Made up of the recurring, repetitive topics that people talk about in social conversations. Part of the 5 components of social episodes.
What are the cultural patterns? How are they different
Cultural patterns - shared judgments about the world and people
Social roles - expected behaviors
Rules of Interaction - Predictable patterns of social episodes for structure.
