Intercultural Communication

Terminology

Intercultural Communication

Terminology

Cultural patternCultural pattern

High context communication

High context communication

Power distancePower distanceLow context

communication

Low context communication

Cultural Patterns

is communication in which

most of the information is

already in the person, while

very little is in the coded,

explicitly transmitted part of

the message.

is communication in which the

mass of the information is vested

in the explicit code.

is the extent to which the less powerful

members of institutions and organizations

accept that power is distributed unequally.

That is to say, how equal or unequal the

people in a particular culutre think people

should be.

Chapter 7

deals with the degree to which

members of a culture try to

avoid uncertainty.

Uncertainty avoidance

Uncertainty avoidance

refers to shared beliefs, values,

norms, and social practices that

are stable over time and that lead

to roughly similar behaviors across

similar situations.