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Among Cultures The Challenge of Communication (with InfoTrac)

by: Hall, Bradford J.

Among Cultures The Challenge of Communication (with InfoTrac)

by: Hall, Bradford J.

ISBN 13:
9780534642488
ISBN 10:
0534642489
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 06/16/2004
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

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Enhance your understanding of intercultural interaction with AMONG CULTURES: THE CHALLENGE OF COMMUNICATION with InfoTrac?! With coverage of how cultural and communication are intimately related, this communication text provides you with practical applications that you can incorporate into your own life and interactions with others. Exercises, applications, and reflection questions are found throughout the text and help you understand your own culture, as well as the cultures of others.

PREFACE

xiii

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

xix

1. WHAT IS MEANT BY INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION?

Overview

(2)

Culture

(13)

System

(2)

Historically Shared

(2)

Symbolic Resources

(3)

Make Our World Meaningful

(5)

Communication

(3)

Interdependent

(2)

Situational

(1)

Intercultural Communication as a Field of Study

(1)

Hazards of Studying Intercultural Communication

(1)

Oversimplification

(1)

Overgeneralization

(1)

Exaggeration

(1)

Benefits of Studying Intercultural Communication

(1)

Personal Empowerment

(1)

Freedom from Ignorance

(1)

Productive Relationships

(1)

Summary

(1)

Reflection Questions

(1)

Activities

(1)

Notes

(3)

2. WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE?

(36)

Overview

(3)

Manifestations of Culture

(26)

Worldviews

(18)

Values

(3)

Norms

(4)

Two Perspectives on the Culture-Communication Connection

(2)

Monolithic Force

(1)

Reflexive Force

(2)

Summary

(1)

Reflection Questions

(1)

Activities

(1)

Notes

(3)

3. HOW CAN WE LEARN ABOUT OUR OWN AND OTHERS' CULTURES?

(36)

Overview

(3)

The Learning Process

(2)

Need

(1)

Precedent

(1)

The Etic/Emic Distinction

(5)

Hymes's Speaking Framework: An Etic Grid

(4)

Narratives

(12)

Narrative Teaching Functions

(9)

Interpreting Narratives

(2)

Ritual

(9)

(Mis)impressions about the Nature of Rituals

(7)

Recognizing Rituals around Us

(1)

The Worth of Rituals

(1)

Summary

(1)

Reflection Questions

(1)

Activities

(1)

Notes

(3)

4. HOW IS CULTURE RELATED TO OUR IDENTITIES?

(30)

Overview

(3)

Identity

102

(11)

Expectations Related to Ourselves and Others

102

(4)

Interplay of Similarities and Differences

106

(2)

Personal, Relational, and Communal Levels of Identity

108

(5)

Communication's Relationship to Identity

113

(4)

Reflective

113

(1)

Constitutive

114

(3)

Pathways to Identity

117

(8)

Avowal

118

(2)

Ascription

120

(5)

Summary

125

(1)

Reflection Questions

126

(1)

Activities

127

(1)

Notes

127

(2)

5. WHERE CAN WE LOOK TO EXPLAIN VERBAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS?

129

(28)

Overview

129

(3)

Verbal Communication and Context

132

(7)

Contextual Frames

133

(6)

Verbal Communication: Structure and Content

139

(10)

Quality

139

(3)

Quantity

142

(1)

Relevance

143

(2)

Manner

145

(4)

Face Considerations

149

(1)

Language and Thought

149

(3)

Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

151

(1)

Summary

152

(1)

Reflection Questions

153

(1)

Activities

153

(1)

Notes

154

(3)

6. WHERE CAN WE LOOK TO EXPLAIN NONVERBAL MISUNDERSTANDINGS?

157

(30)

Overview

157

(3)

Roles of Nonverbal Communication

160

(2)

Repetition

161

(1)

Contradiction

161

(1)

Substitution

161

(1)

Accentuation

161

(1)

Complement

162

(1)

Regulation

162

(1)

Forms of Nonverbal Communication

162

(18)

Kinesics

162

(9)

Proxemics

171

(2)

Paralanguage

173

(2)

Other Forms of Nonverbal Communication

175

(5)

Intercultural Listening and Nonverbal Communication

180

(1)

Summary

181

(1)

Reflection Questions

182

(1)

Activities

183

(2)

Notes

185

(2)

7. WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE GET TREATED POORLY?

187

(38)

Overview

187

(5)

Stereotypes

192

(6)

Categorization

192

(1)

Fundamental Attribution Error

193

(2)

Points of Variance

195

(3)

Ethnocentrism

198

(4)

Concern versus Indifference

200

(1)

Involvement versus Avoidance

201

(1)

Enjoyment versus Intolerance

201

(1)

Prejudice

202

(18)

Forms of Prejudice

204

(2)

Rationalizing Narratives of Prejudice

206

(12)

Functions of Prejudice

218

(2)

Summary

220

(1)

Reflection Questions

221

(1)

Activities

222

(1)

Notes

223

(2)

8. HOW CAN WE MANAGE CONFLICT IN INTERCULTURAL SETTINGS?

225

(40)

Overview

225

(4)

Cultural Approaches to Conflict

229

(4)

Avoiding

229

(1)

Accommodating

230

(1)

Competing

231

(1)

Compromising

231

(1)

Collaborating

231

(2)

Types of Intercultural Conflict

233

(10)

Object Conflicts

233

(3)

Relationship Conflicts

236

(2)

Priority Conflicts

238

(5)

Intergroup Conflict

243

(10)

Group Membership and Communication

243

(2)

Group Membership and Conflict

245

(3)

Origins of Intergroup Conflict

248

(5)

Strategies for Managing Intercultural and Intergroup Conflict

253

(5)

Appropriate Conditions for Successful Contact

253

(2)

Recognizing Reasonableness

255

(2)

Factoring in Face

257

(1)

One Final Point to Ponder: Forgiveness

258

(2)

Summary

260

(1)

Reflection Questions

260

(1)

Activities

261

(1)

Notes

262

(3)

9. How CAN WE SUCCEED IN OUR INTERCULTURAL TRAVELS?

265

(34)

Overview

265

(3)

Hierarchy of Human Needs

268

(2)

Acculturation

270

(17)

The U-Curve Model

271

(4)

The Hero's Journey: Osland's Model of Working

Abroad

275

(3)

Surprise and Sense-Making Model

278

(5)

Kim's Adaptation Model

283

(4)

Returning Home: Readapting to Our Own Cultural Community

287

(7)

Change in Self and Others

288

(2)

Unrealistic Expectations

290

(2)

Lack of Appreciation in Home Community

292

(2)

Final Thoughts on Cultural Transitions

294

(1)

Summary

295

(1)

Reflection Questions

296

(1)

Activities

296

(1)

Notes

297

(2)

10. WHAT DIVERSITY EXISTS IN THE STUDY OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION?

299

(30)

Overview

299

(5)

Major Perspectives in Intercultural Communication

304

(4)

Interpretive Perspective

304

(1)

Critical Perspective

305

(2)

Traditional Perspective

307

(1)

Popular Culture

308

(8)

Characteristics of Popular Culture

308

(4)

Popular Culture Artifacts

312

(4)

Critical Perspectives on Popular Culture and the Media

316

(4)

Traditional Perspectives on Popular Culture and the Media

320

(5)

Impact of the Media on Culture

320

(1)

Impact of Culture on the Media

321

(1)

Culture as an Intervening Variable

322

(3)

Summary

325

(1)

Reflection Questions

325

(1)

Activities

326

(1)

Notes

326

(3)

11. CAN JUDGMENTS OF RIGHT AND WRONG BE MADE WHEN DEALING WITH OTHER CULTURES?

329

(40)

Overview

329

(5)

Ethics

334

(6)

General Perspective

334

(1)

Five Golden Approaches

335

(5)

Ethics and Communication

340

(3)

Constraint

340

(2)

Empowerment

342

(1)

Ethics and Culture

343

(4)

Universalism

344

(1)

Relativism

344

(2)

Critique

346

(1)

Efforts to Find Universal Ethics That Acknowledge the Relativistic Nature of Cultures

347

(1)

Ethical Principles for Intercultural Relations

348

(21)

Effort to Understand

348

(7)

Peaceful Disagreement

355

(4)

Loving Relationships

359

(5)

Summary

364

(1)

Reflection Questions

365

(1)

Activities

365

(1)

Notes

366

(3)

INDEX

369

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