How do communication styles vary?
High-context and low-context styles are not mutually exclusive. Each has its place and is preferred at different times or with different people, and thus should not designate any individual or …
Course: Intercultural Communication: Dynamics of cultural identities in global interaction
Linking Culture and Communication
Throughout this course, the contributions of Edward T. Hall have been noted. This article provides an overview of Hall’s works and ideas, with a focus on how he emphasized context …
What is High Context and Low Context culture?
The communicative style variance among cultures is often due to historic patterns or value expressions in situated social contexts. Here we explore Hall’s High-Low Context dimension and how this is …
Speaking cross-culturally: Analyzing a case
Cultural differences can affect us even in brief interchanges. What we think is important can show up in what we say, or what we expect other to say or how …
Understanding individualism and collectivism
Individualism and Collectivism is most widely used to explain behavioral variance. This article discusses the history, applications, limitations, and modifications of this dimension as it is used for cross-cultural analysis. …
Dimensionalising individualism, power and time
This video discusses three of the most widely-used dimensions for analyzing cultural differences: Individualism and Collectivism, High-Low Power Distance, and E. T. Hall’s Time orientations: Monochronic and Polychronic. Of the …
Understanding values dimensions
This article provides an overview of leading values dimensions and frameworks developed by scholars to make sense of cultural differences. No matter what approach you use, each provides some important …
Considering values frameworks
What are terms, vocabularies or taxonomies that help meaningfully compare or contrast cultural values? This section discusses important orientations, as well as the psychological dimensions that many use for explaining …
Introducing values studies
This article describes how values function. Guiding our associations with sameness and responses to difference, values affect cross-cultural interactions. Therefore understanding and clarifying them is important. Starting from a need …
Defining values
We focus this week on values — what they are and how they are expressed across cultures, whether traditional, modern, Eastern or Western. Like the iceberg metaphor, values are a …
Considering multiple identities
Thinking about identity is one thing, but experiencing it is another. In our global, mobile world, more and more people have intertwined identities. How can they sort out their hybridity …
Hypothesizing intergroup contact
Gordon Allport posited that under certain conditions, intergroup contact can reduce intergroup prejudice. Subsequent research supports this hypothesis, and also demonstrates its applicability to many areas of study. Why, do …
Responding to diverse identities
We at times use cultural identities to form stereotypes about our own cultural groups and others. Stereotypes influence attitudes which can become prejudice. If we act on such prejudice, it …
Reflecting poetically on perception
Culture affects how we see things. When we cross cultures, our perceptions will be challenged. This often goes beyond visual, cognitive processes to affect deeper attitudes, feelings, and affective responses, …
Representing identity as an onion
Identities can be discovered layer by layer either through self-reflection or interpersonal interaction. Some identities are easily noticeable, but it usually takes interaction to bring out or penetrate deeper layers …
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Intercultural Communication: Dynamics of cultural identities in global interaction