Among Cultures: The Challenge of Communication
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 What Is Meant by Intercultural Communication? -- Culture -- System -- Historically Shared -- Symbolic Resources -- Make Our World Meaningful -- Selection -- Organization -- Evaluation -- Communication -- Interdependent -- Situational -- Intercultural Communication -- Intercultural Communication as a Field of Study -- Hazards of Studying Intercultural Communication -- Oversimplification -- Overgeneralization -- Exaggeration -- Benefits of Studying Intercultural Communication -- Personal Empowerment -- Freedom from Ignorance -- Productive Relationships -- Organizational Empowerment -- Summary -- Notes -- 2 What Is the Relationship Between Communication and Culture? -- Manifestations of Culture -- Worldviews -- Individualism/collectivism -- Ascription/achievement -- Egalitarian/hierarchical -- Good/evil -- Mastery/adaptive -- Social Lubricant/information -- High Context/low Context -- Polychronic/monochronic -- Other Worldviews -- Final Thoughts on Worldviews -- Values -- Norms -- Two Perspectives on the Culture-communication Connection -- Monolithic Force -- Reflexive Force -- Sense-making -- Situational -- Summary -- Notes -- 3 How Can We Learn About Our Own and Others' Cultures? -- The Learning Process -- Need -- Precedent -- The Etic/emic Distinction -- Hymes' Speaking Framework: an Etic Grid -- Scenes -- Participants -- Ends -- Acts (substance and Sequence) -- Keys -- Instrumentalities -- Norms -- Genres -- Narratives -- Narrative Teaching Functions -- The Way the World Works -- Our Place in the World -- How to Act in the World -- How to Evaluate What Goes on in the World -- Interpreting Narratives -- Ritual -- (mis)impressions About the Nature of Rituals -- Just the Same Thing over and over -- Outdated, Hypocritical, and Meaningless.