CMNS 1115 Lecture Notes - Intercultural Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Dialectic
Document Summary
Identity-management focuses on the process of negotiation between self & other and the potential tensions between individual & relational identity. A relationship is not the sum of the identities of its members it but has a unique identity that is a product of interactions across difference: these differences emerge within general types of social interchange. Intercultural communication: negotiation of salient differences in world-view, ways of doing/seeing things, expectations, etc. Intracultural communication: negotiation of common cultural identities from divergent social standpoints. Interpersonal communication: negotiation of identity differences against a background of expectations about the nature/meaning of those differences. Relationships involve the production of a shared identity across these differences but also the management of lasting individual differences. Four threats to cultural identity: identity: freezing simplifying the culture of the other, lack of support: ignoring or otherwise trivialising the other"s cultural values, self-other face dialectic: tension between supporting one"s own culture supporting that of the other.
