SPCH 1000 Lecture 6: Lecture Notes (Chapter 6) SPCH
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This chapter discussed about cultural variations across different cultural groups. It specifically focused on four important taxonomies that describe cultural variations, which also indicate their implication to intercultural communication. Four cultural taxonomies: hall"s high and low context cultural taxonomy. Edward t. hall organized culture based on the amount of information implied by the setting or context itself. According to hall, the function of culture is providing screen between the person and different stimuli sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and bodily sensations. In high-context cultures (high-context message), meaning is either implied by the physical setting or is presumed to be part of the individual"s internalized beliefs, values, norms and social practices. That is, very little is provided in the coded explicit, transmitted part of the message. In low-context-culture (low-context message), the majority of information is vested in the explicit code. Other distinctive characteristics of high-context culture-low-context culture include:
