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I. INTRODUCTION | |
1. "Who am I?": Cultural Variations in Self-Systems | |
Evolution of Western Self-Construction: "America's Civil Religion" | |
Interdependent Self-Construals-An Alternative Framework | |
2. Independent and Interdependent Models of the Self as Cultural Frame | |
3. Why Self-Construals are Useful | |
Parismony of Explanation: Impact of Culture | |
Cultural Relativity of Communication Theories | |
ii. CULTURAL RELATIVITY OF COMMINCATION CONSTRUCTS AND THEORIES: "U.S.- CENTRISM" | |
4. "Communication Apprehension": "Deficiency" or "Politeness"? | |
Motivation to "Avoid" Verbal Communication | |
Traditional View: Communication "Avoidance" as a Deficiency | |
Communication Avoidance Stemming from a Sensitivity to Social Contexts | |
Implications | |
5. Motivation to "Approach" Verbal Communication: Is Communication Approach Always Healthy? | |
Assertiveness: "Standing up for your own Rights" | |
Argumentativeness: A Subset of Assertiveness | |
Critique and Summary | |
6. Conflict Management Styles: Is Avoidance Really a "Lose-Lose"? | |
Prior Conflict Management Typologies | |
Individualistic Bias in Past Conceptualizations of Conflict Styles | |
7. Cognitive Consistency: A Cultural Assumption? | |
Fundamental Assumptions of Cognitive Dissonance Theory | |
Is Cognitive Dissonance a Culture-Bound Concept? | |
8. Attitude-Behavior Consistency: Cultural Ideal of the Individualistic Society | |
Predicting Behaviors: Deemphasizing Situations Over Attitudes | |
Emphasizing Other Sources of Behavior | |
9. Susceptibility to Social Influence: Conformity or "Tact"? | |
An Eco-Cultural Explanation of Conformity | |
Conformity as "Social Sensitivity," Independence as "Insensitivity" | |
10. Internal Control Ideology and Communication: Are Internals "Good Guys" and Externals "Bad Guys"? | |
Internal Control Ideology | |
Relationship between Locus of Control and Communication Ideology | |
11. Deceptive Communication: Moral Choice or Social Necessity? | |
Deception as a Moral Issue: Independent Perspective | |
Deception as a Social Necessity: Interdependent Perspective | |
12. Self-Disclosure: Bragging vs. Negative Self-Disclosure | |
Motivational Influences on Styles of Self-Disclosure | |
13. Silence: "Is It Really Golden?" | |
Silence as Malfunctioning of (Human) Machines | |
Neglected Component of Human Communication: Silence | |
14. Acculturative Communication Competence: Who Bears the Burden of Adjustment? | |
Assimilation Model: "Marginal Man [sic]" Perspective | |
Alternation Model: Bicultural Perspective | |
Host Communication Competence: One-Way Assimilation | |
Bicultural Communication Competence: Alternation Model | |
III. TOWARDS A BI-DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF CULTURAL IDENTITY | |
15. The Sources of Dualism: Mechanistic Cartesian Worldview | |
Bias Toward "Yang" Communication Behaviors | |
Particle/Wave Paradox: Implications of Personhood for Human Communication | |
16. Dimensionality of Cultural Identity | |
Unidimensional Model of Self-Construals | |
Bi-dimensional Model of Self-Construals | |
Support for the Bi-dimensional Model | |
Formation of Bicultural Identity | |
IV. CONCLUSION-TOWARDS MODELS OF MATURITY | |
17. Into the Future: Implications for Future Inquiry | |
Postscript | |
References |
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