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Understanding Understanding Intercultural Intercultural Communication Communication Second Second EditionEdition
Chapter 6
What is the Connection between Verbal Communication & Culture?
Stella Ting-Toomey & Leeva C. Chung
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
PowerPoint Slides Designed by Alex Flecky and Noorie Baig
TODAY’S MENUTODAY’S MENU
I. Human Language: Distinctive Features and Rule Patterns
II. Appreciating Diverse Language Functions
III. Verbal Communication Styles: A General Framework
IV. Intercultural Reality Check: Do-Ables
Do you know…Do you know…
I. Human Language: Distinctive I. Human Language: Distinctive Features Features and Rule Patterns and Rule Patterns Language:
An arbitrary, symbolic system that labels and categorizes objects, events, groups, people, ideas, feelings, experiences, and many other phenomena.
Can you guess how many languages exist worldwide?
I. Human Language: Distinctive I. Human Language: Distinctive Features Features and Rule Patterns and Rule Patterns
A. Distinctive Language Features• Arbitrariness: sounds and symbols
Ω A € ∞• Abstractness: concrete to abstract
levels
• Meaning-Centeredness: denotative and connotative levels of meaning
• Creativity: productivity, displacement, eta-communicative
I. Human Language: Distinctive I. Human Language: Distinctive Features and Rule Patterns Features and Rule Patterns
B. Multiple Rule Patterns
• Phonological Rules: Smallest unit of a word
• Morphological Rules: Multiple sounds • Syntactic Rules: Grammar• Semantic Rules: Meaning• Pragmatic Rules: Contextual rules
II. Appreciating Diverse II. Appreciating Diverse Language FunctionsLanguage Functions
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II. Appreciating Diverse Language II. Appreciating Diverse Language FunctionsFunctions
A. Cultural Worldview Function • Linear worldview vs. Relational worldview
B. Everyday Social Reality Function
C. Cognitive Shaping Function• Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: “the shaper of
ideas” • Strong Form vs. Weak Form
D. Group Membership Function• Code switching (Click to view related video)
E. Social Change Function
Linear Worldview
Rational thinking
Objective reasoning
Facts and evidence
Polarized interpretation
Analytical dissecting mode
Tangible outcome
Relational Worldview
Connected thinking
Context-based reasoning
Context and relationship
Continuum interpretation
Holistic big-picture mode
Long-term relational outcome
II. Appreciating Diverse II. Appreciating Diverse Language Functions: Cultural Language Functions: Cultural Worldview FunctionWorldview Function
II. Verbal Communication II. Verbal Communication Styles: Styles: A General Framework A General Framework
LCC Patterns
Individualistic values
Linear logic
Direct verbal style
Matter of fact tone
Informal verbal style
Verbal assertiveness or talkativeness
Verbal self-enhancement style
HCC Patterns
Collectivistic values
Spiral logic
Indirect verbal style Understated or
animated tone Formal verbal style
Verbal reticence or silence
Self-humbling style
LCC – HCC Application Analysis:• The Joy Luck Club: Film Clip• Roommates Video
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:• Compare and contrast the different verbal styles of the
people in the videos.• What did the low-context communicator say/do? What
did the high-context communicator say/do?• What recommendations do you have for these
communicators to make this conversation go better?
II. Verbal Communication Styles: A General II. Verbal Communication Styles: A General FrameworkFramework
Beliefs Expressed in Talk and Silence• Silence is interpreted and evaluated
differently across cultures and between persons.
• How do you interpret silence?
Take a look at how the Japanese people use silence to mean different things…
II. Verbal Communication Styles: A General II. Verbal Communication Styles: A General FrameworkFramework
IV. Intercultural Reality Check: IV. Intercultural Reality Check: Do-AblesDo-Ables
When using your native language with a nonnative speaker, to be flexible verbal communicators, try to practice the following guidelines:
– Practice intercultural empathy– Learn to paraphrase and perception check– Use multiple modes of presentation – Practice language variation usage– Pay attention to nonverbal tone of voice – Understand basic differences of LCC and HCC
patterns – Use nonverbal gestures to complement– Master the language pragmatic rule function
If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his
language, that goes to his heart.
~ Nelson Mandela
Learn a new language and get a new soul.
~ Czech Proverb
Parting Thoughts…Parting Thoughts…
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