MGT 357 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Intercultural Communication, Paralanguage, Object Language
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Communication - process of sharing meaning by transmitting messages through social media such as words, behavior, or material artifacts. Vital importance for a receiver to interpret the meaning of a particular communication in the way the sender intended. Complex process of linking up or sharing the perceptual fields of sender and receiver. Noise - anything that serves to undermine the communication of the intended meaning. Cause is that the sender and receiver each exists in a unique, private world thought of as their life space. More dissimilar the cultures of those involved, the greater the likelihood of misinterpretation. Cultural noise - cultural variables that undermine the communications of intended meaning. Intercultural communication - type of communication that occurs when a member of one culture sends a message to a receiver who is a member of another culture. Attribution - process in which a person looks for an explanation of another person"s behavior.
