Purposive Communication Flashcards
means the world is becoming more connected in how we trade, share information, and do business. This makes the world feel like a small “global village” where people from different places can work together, share ideas, and buy and sell things. Many companies want to grow worldwide, so they hire people from other countries and build teams with different backgrounds.
Globalization
It is a direct communication style if messages reveal the speaker’s true intention and indirect if the message camouflages the intention.
1.Direct or indirect:
It is a self-enhancing communication style if the message promotes positive aspects of self and self-effacing if the message deemphasizes aspects of self.
- Self-enchanging or Self-effacing:
It is an elaborated communication style if there is a use of rich expressions and understated if there is an extensive use of silence, pauses, and understatements.
3.Elaborated or understated:
TYPES OF COMMUNICATION STYLES
direct or indirect
self enhancing or self effacing
elaborated or understated
is about sharing and understanding ideas with people from different cultures. In a diverse society, we can learn and grow together by exploring each other’s cultures. Noticing the similarities and differences in how we communicate, including body language, can be interesting. Understanding each other’s cultures helps us earn respect and build strong relationships.
Intercultural communication
is the interaction among people of different races.
Interracial communication
the interaction among people who have different ethnic groups
Inter-ethnic communication
is the interaction between persons representing different political structures.
- International communication
is the interaction that includes all forms of communication among members of the same racial, ethnic, and subculture groups.
- Intra-cultural communication
what are the variations of communication
interracial-communication
inter ethnic communication
international communication
intra-cultural communication
Varities and registers of the Spoken and Written Langunage
Frozen register
formal register
Consultative register
informal register (casual)
Informal register (intimate)
neutral register
- Formal ceremonies
- Prose or poetry
- National Anthem
- School Creeds
- The Lord’s Prayer
- Pledge of Allegiance to country
frozen register
- Professional writing
- Business correspondence
- Essays
- Reports
- Official speeches
- Announcements
formal register
- Superior and subordinate conversation
- Client and doctor consultation
- Client and lawyer consultation
- Teacher and student conversation
- Employer and employee conversation
Consultative register
- Writing to friends
- Family conversations
- Chats with people you know very well
- Personal e-mails
- Phone texts
- Short notes
informal register (Casual)
- Lovers
- Mothers giving pet names to their children based on some character traits
- Best friends formulating slangs based on some shared experience
Informal register (intimate)
- Technical writing
- Reviews
- Articles
- Some letters
- Some essays
Neutral register
Here are some rules of formal writing for your guidance.
- Avoid using contractions. Words should always be spelled out except if you are directly quoting somebody.
- Spell out numbers less than one hundred.
- Write in third person point of view. In writing a qualitative study, you may write using the first person point of view.
- Use the active voice (subject as doer of the action) as much as possible instead of the passive voice (subject as receiver of the action)
Here’s a tip to help you identify and convert passive voice to active voice:
Passive Voice: Subject + be verb + past participle + by + agent Active Voice: Agent + verb + object
Example:
Passive: The report was written by the student.
Active: The student wrote the report.. - Do not use slangs, idioms, exaggerations, and clichés. Slang refers to the very informal language you use with your friends. These are street words that a particular group understands.
- Avoid abbreviations and acronyms. If you use abbreviations or acronyms, spell the entire name out the first time it appears, followed by the acronym. From then on you can use the acronym itself.
- Do not start sentences with words like and, so, but, also.
FACTOR THAT MAY EFFECT INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
- CULTURAL IDENTITY - Refers to an individual sense of belonging and connection to a particular group or community encompassing the shared values, traditions, customs, language, beliefs and behavioral norms that define and distinguish a specific cultural or ethnic group.
- RACIAL IDENTITY - Racial identity refers to the place or country where the person was born or the race that has a greater influence on his personality.
- SOCIAL CLASS - A group of people within a society who possess the same socio-economic status.
- GENDER AND ROLE IDENTITY - Gender is your sense of who you are. Gender role are characteristic and behaviors that are socially constructed.
- AGE - The concept of age identity refers to the inner experience of a person’s age and aging process.
- INDIVIDUAL PERSONALITY - Refers to the enduring characteristics and behaviors that comprise a persons unique adjustment to life including major traits, interest, drive, values, self-concept, abilities and emotional patterns.
- PROXEMICS
refers to the use of space or distance when you communicate with different people. There are differences of tolerance for physical distance in a conversational situation.
8.Clothing and Physical Appearance
Clothing and physical appearance refer to how people present themselves and how they dress up.
9.ParalanguAGE
refers to the conveyance of meaning through non-lexical tokens (or non-words, such as “huh,” “hmm,” or “well”) such as qualities of prosody (or the rhythm, stress, and sound of speech).
10.Facial Expressions and Eye Contact
a.Eye contact
The significance of eye contact in communication lies in decoding non-verbal cues, and revealing others’ true emotions and intentions.
b.Facial Expression
Facial Expressions Facial expressions refer to the way you pull or contract your face muscles to send messages.
11.Gestures and Body Stance
Gestures and body stance refer to the body movements you use to send a message.
Characteristics of Competent Global Communicator
1.Tolerance during uncertainty
2.Contemplative Contemplative
3.Sensitive Sensitive
- Adaptable
- Polite
- Avoids negative questions
7.Supportive
8.Unbiased or unprejudiced
9.Observant
- Does not use slang
11.Watches the humor
12.Maintains etiquette
Is the ability to create an
opinion with factual
supporting evidences that
are rational. It involves
visualizing the message,
analyzing the message, and
logically assessing the
meaning of the message
critical thinking
Is the final concept of the idea by the sender. It may be
encoded in various forms like spoken words, written word,
non-verbal, pictures, film, advertisements, memes, visual and
performing arts, etc.
message
Purpose of message
to inform/educate
to entertain
to persuade
