INTC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Metanarrative, Stress Management, Ethnocentrism

• School: Brock University
• Department: Intercultural Studies
• Course: INTC 1F90
• Professor: Jeff Reichheld

Document Summary

Grand narratives & intercultural communication september 26, 2017. Is the means by which individuals learn appropriate behaviours and the means by which those behaviours are regulated. Is the means by which individuals having one group identity interact with individuals with other group identities and on a more general level the means by which the groups interact with one another as formal groups. A confucian perspective on communication would define it as an infinite interpretive process by which all parties are searching to develop and maintain social relationships. Contrast to language: (cid:498)a set of [written, verbal or gestural] symbols shared by a community to communicate meaning and experience(cid:499) Types of communication: verbal: the linguistic codes or language used to express complex, non-verbal: extra-linguistic means of transferring information including (but thoughts/ideas etc not limited to) behaviours such as (cid:498)body language(cid:499) Communication as (cid:498)a symbolic, interpretive, transactional, contextual process in which people create shared meanings(cid:499)