Deck 5: Intercultural Messages: Verbal and Nonverbal Interaction

Question 1

roles do land rights, religion, and cultural conflict play in defining the communicative dynamics of Israeli- Jews and Palestinian-Arabs?

Answer 1

Intercultural communication:
Intercultural communication is a type of communication that shares information between two different cultures. It requires a systematic knowledge about two key elements such as culture and communication.
Roles of "land rights, religion, and cultural conflict":
There is a severe conflict between "Israeli-Jews and Palestinian-Arabs". The foundation of the conflict can be drawn with the political appearance. Political leaders from "Israeli-Jews and Palestinian-Arabs" persist to attempt and return to peace built and making. Issue of land is the conflict that centers who has the land, religious rights, and recognizes cultural conflict.

Question 2

do Ellis and Maoz mean when they refer to "transformative communication"?

Answer 2

Intercultural communication:
Intercultural communication is a type of communication that shares information between two different cultures. It requires a systematic knowledge about two key elements such as culture and communication.
Transformative communication:
Transformative communication is a creative communication practice between various cultural groups. It helps to reduce discrimination and hostility. The concept of transformative communication used in the perspective of intergroup conflict represent from the hypothesis in collective psychology.

Question 3

does transformative communication help improve the communication between groups in conflict?

Answer 3

Intercultural communication:
Intercultural communication is a type of communication that shares information between two different cultures. It requires a systematic knowledge about two key elements such as culture and communication.
Transformative communication:
Transformative communication is a creative communication practice between various cultural groups. It helps to reduce discrimination and hostility. Such communication skills have been flourishing at assisting groups deal with conflict in different countries. The concept of transformative communication used in the perspective of intergroup conflict represent from the hypothesis in collective psychology. This communication also helps to change negative attitudes of intercultural group.

Question 4

conditions must be met between two groups in conflict before the contact hypothesis will help reduce prejudice and negative intergroup attitudes?

Question 5

does the concept of "dialogue," as discussed by Martin Buber, Carl Rogers, and Mikhail Bakhtin, provide guiding principles for transformative dialogue?

Question 6

do cultural differences in speech codes affect communication between Israeli-Jews and Palestinian-Arabs? Provide some examples of differences in speech codes for each of these groups.

Question 7

have been the major circumstances that have led to the development of the unique speech codes among Israeli-Jews and Palestinian-Arabs?

Question 8

Musayra , which means "to accommodate" or "to go along with," plays a major role in the speech codes of Palestinian-Arabs. What are the four communicative features of musayra ?

Question 9

do the speech codes of Israeli-Jews differ from those of the Palestinian-Arabs?

Question 10

do Ellis and Maoz mean when they assert that the meaning and significance of messages fundamentally depend on speech codes?

Question 11

does Andersen mean when he writes that "the primary level of culture is communicated implicitly, without awareness, by primarily nonverbal means"?

Question 12

you agree with Andersen that two of the most fundamental nonverbal differences in intercultural communication involve space and time? From your experiences, what two nonverbal areas have you found most troublesome when interacting with people from different cultures?

Question 13

your personal experiences, can you think of different ways people in various cultures greet, show emotion, and beckon?

Question 14

you believe that intercultural communication problems are more serious when they involve nonverbal communication or verbal communication?

Question 15

is kinesic behavior? How does it vary from one culture to another? What types of communication problems can be caused by cultural differences in kinesic behavior?

Question 16

term haptics refers to patterns of tactile communication. How does tactile communication differ among cultures? Can you think of examples of how tactile communication differs among members of co-cultures? What type of communication problems might arise when people with different touching orientations interact?

Question 17

does physical appearance affect first impressions during interaction? How are expectations of physical appearance related to the informal-formal dimension of culture?

Question 18

does immediacy affect interpersonal interaction? What differences in behaviors would you expect from high- and low-contact cultures? In what way would violations of immediacy expectations affect intercultural communication?

Question 19

is the degree of individualism within cultures manifest in nonverbal behavior?

Question 20

is the relationship between power distance and kinesic behavior? How is high-power distance displayed? How is low-power distance displayed?

Question 21

are "cultural themes," and how may we benefit from their study?

Question 22

are the major Japanese cultural themes that influence intercultural communication?

Question 23

you think of any North American cultural themes that could influence how Americans use nonverbal communication?

Question 24

does Confucian-based collectivism help control Japanese nonverbal communication?

Question 25

cultural themes are seen as the basis for Japanese kinesic behavior? Are the same or different themes active in U.S. American nonverbal behavior?

Question 26

are the most obvious activities associated with Japanese kinesic behavior? What would be a U.S. American counterpart?

Question 27

does culture influence personal appearance in Japanese and U.S. American culture?

Question 28

are the cultural underpinnings of silence in Japan? How does the Japanese manipulation of silence affect intercultural communication?

Question 29

Describe differences in the use of vocalics or paralanguage in Japan and the United States. How might these differences lead to misunderstandings during intercultural communication?

Question 30

you believe Cargile is correct when he notes that "research demonstrates that people tend to like others who possess attitudes and traits similar to their own and to dislike others with dissimilar attitudes and traits"?

Question 31

you think of examples that illustrate Cargile's point that "language differences also may be present even when the same symbolic code is used"?

Question 32

According to Cargile, what are examples of situations in which accents influenced someone's perception of another person? Has accent ever influenced your perception of another person? How?

Question 33

you think of examples in your own life when a speaker's choice of words or grammatical phrases may have contributed to some harmful and erroneous prejudgments?

Question 34

what settings do we most often see discrimination based on speech differences?

Question 35

you agree with Cargile when he asserts that "when participants come from the same nation, but different co-cultures, the language differences may not be as striking"?

Question 36

According to Cargile, how should responsible intercultural communicators manage language attitudes?

Question 37

does the study of familiar sayings help us understand some of the important values of a particular culture?

Question 38

Which Mexican sayings discussed by Roy are heard in other cultures?

Question 39

does Fong mean when she writes: "Language and thought vary with one another"? Do you agree?

Question 40

you think of specific examples that illustrate the link between culture and language?

Question 41

you explain what Fong means when she states that language influences and shapes how people perceive their world and their culture?

Question 42

is meant by the following phrase: "People who speak different languages segment their world differently"?

Question 43

do Chinese immigrants and Americans differ in their compliment interactions?

Question 44

referring to Sherzer, what does Fong means when she writes: "Culture is the organization of individuals who share rules for production and interpretation of behavior"?

Question 45

do the Chinese use language to reverse bad luck?

Question 46

what ways do the Chinese and the Americans express themselves differently?