COMM 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Ingroups And Outgroups, Femininity, Masculinity
8 Nov 2017
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Intercultural communication: knowing another culture"s language is not equivalent to understanding their culture b. Identifying cultural features that make a difference: what we bring from our specialized co-culture are different values or ways of ii. viewing the world that can impact how we communicate with one another. 1: high and low context, high and low power distance, masculinity and femininity. They look for meaning from the physical setting itself or from the implied demands of the situation. they rely more on metaphor, innuendo and implication. they also merely suggest or offer alternatives. Individuals tend to be verbally explicit, precise, and accurate. they do not assume that others will be able to figure out what they mean without a lot of help. In public speaking they provide a lot of facts, figures, statistics and other background information that tell the audience what to think and how to interpret the data: low context, high and low power distance i. ii.
