Intercultural Communication: Foundational Frameworks | |
Why Study Intercultural Communication? | |
Practical Reasons to Study Intercultural Communication | |
Adapting to Global and Domestic Workplace Diversity: Improving Multicultural Health Care Communication: Engaging in Creative Problem Solving: Enhancing Intercultural Relationship Satisfaction: Deepening Self-Awareness: Fostering Global and Intrapersonal Peace: Intercultural Communication Flexibility | |
Knowledge, Attitude, Skills: Flexible Intercultural Communication: Four Criteria: Mastering Intercultural Communication Flexibility | |
A Staircase Model: Communicating Flexibly | |
What Is Intercultural Communication? | |
Culture: A Learned Meaning System | |
Surface-Level Culture: Popular Culture: Intermediate-Level Culture: Symbols, Meanings, and Norms: Deep-Level Culture: Traditions, Beliefs, and Values: Understanding Intercultural Communication: A Process Model | |
Intercultural Communication Process: Overall Characteristics: Intercultural Communication: Meaning Characteristics: Practicing Intercultural Process Thinking | |
Process Consciousness: Underlying Principles: Intercultural Toolkit: Recaps and Checkpoints | |
What Are the Essential Cultural Value Patterns? | |
Functions of Cultural Values | |
Analyzing Cultural Values: Identity Meaning Function: Explanatory Function: Boundary-Regulation Function: Adaptational Function: Analyzing Cultural Value DimensionsDiscovering Cultural Values: Identity: Individualism-Collectivism Value Pattern: Power: Small-Large Power Distance Value Pattern: Uncertainty: Weak-Strong Uncertainty Avoidance Value Pattern: Sex Role: Feminine-Masculine Value Pattern: Additional Value Orientation PatternsValue Orientations: Background Information: Meaning: Doing-Being Activity Value Orientation: Destiny: Controlling-Yielding People-Nature Value Orientation: Time: Future-Past Temporal Value Orientation: Space: Privacy-Communal Spatial Value Orientation: Individual Socialization Development | |
Independent Versus Interdependent Self-Construal: Horizontal Versus Vertical Self-Construal: Internal Versus External Locus of Control: Intercultural Toolkit: Recaps and Checkpoints | |
What Are the Keys to Understanding Cultural and Ethnic Identities? | |
Family and Gender Socialization | |
Family Socialization and Interaction Patterns: Gender Socialization and Interaction Patterns: Cultural-Ethnic Identity Formation | |
Cultural Identity Conceptualization: Ethnic Identity Conceptualization: Group Membership: Intercultural Boundary-Crossing | |
Defining Acculturation and Enculturation: Social Identity Factors: Systems-Level Factors: Individual-Level Factors: Interpersonal-Ethnic Media-Level Factors: Ethnic-Cultural Identity Change Process | |
Ethnic-Cultural Identity Typological Model: Racial-Ethnic Identity Development Model: Intercultural Toolkit: Recaps and Checkpoints | |
Intercultural Communication Shocks: Crossing Boundaries | |
What Is Culture Shock? | |
Understanding Culture Shock | |
Culture Shock: Defining Characteristics: Culture Shock: Pros and Cons: Managing Culture Shock: Underlying Factors: Managing Culture Shock: Initial Tips: Intercultural Adjustment: Developmental Patterns | |
The U-Curve Adjustment Model: The Revised W-Shaped Adjustment Model: Culture Shock: Peaks and Valleys: Reentry Culture Shock | |
Reentry Culture Shock: Surprising Elements: Resocialization: Different Returnees' Profiles: Intercultural Toolkit: Recaps and Checkpoints | |
What Is the Relationship Between Language and Culture? | |
Human Language: Distinctive Features | |
Arbitrariness: Abstractness: Meaning-Centeredness: Creativity: Understanding Multiple Language Rules | |
Phonological Rules: Morphological Rules: Syntactic Rules: Semantic Rules: Pragmatic Rules: Understanding Diverse Language Functions | |
The Cultural Worldview Function: The Cognitive Formation Function: The Social Reality Function: The Group Identity Function: The Social Change function | |
Intercultural Toolkit: Recaps and Checkpoints | |
What Are the Major | |
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