COMM 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Intercultural Communication, Collectivism, Ethnocentrism

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 1500
• Professor: Cone

Document Summary

Culture: groups: collections of people with common identities, culture: shared, personal + learned life experiences of a group of individuals who have a common set of values, norms, and traditions. Intercultural communication (icc): communication b/w or among people who have distinct cultural traditions: culture is not exactly a nationalized thing, preteens create the most new words = effort to distinguish, basic principles: Icc can occur when people speak the same language or a different language: focus is frequently in verbal cues + use of nonverbal cues. Icc frequently involves miscommunication: underlying principles, culture is: Learned: dynamic- always changing; changes through 2 ways, diffusion- borrow + adapt something from another culture. Individualism: competition over cooperation, private over public. Individual over the group: collectivism, self is secondary, value duty, tradition, hierarchy, high context--low context, high context, meaning drawn from surroundings, nonverbal cues read with high degree of accuracy.