Non-Western Perspectives on Human Communication : Implications for Theory and Practice.
What it means to be a self - and a self communicating and being in a particular culture - are key issues interwoven throughout Min-Sun Kim's impressive text, Non-Western Perspectives on Human Communication. Going beyond cultural descriptions or instructions on adapting to specific cultures, the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
2002.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "Who am I?" Cultural variations in self-systems
- Independent and interdependent models of the self as cultural frame
- Why self-construals are useful
- U.S.-centrism: cultural relativity of communication constructs and theories
- Communication apprehension: deficiency or politeness?
- Motivation to approach verbal communication: is communication approach always healthy?
- Conflict management styles: is avoidance really a lose-lose?
- Cognitive consistency: a cultural assumption?
- Attitude-behavior consistency: cultural ideal of individualistic society?
- Susceptibility to social influence: conformity or tact?
- Internal control ideology and interpersonal communication
- Deceptive communication: moral choice or social necessity?
- Self-disclosure: bragging vs. negative self-disclosure
- Silence: is it really golden?
- Models of acculturative communication competence: who bears the burden of adaptation?
- Toward a bidimensional model of cultural identity
- The sources of dualism: mechanistic Cartesian worldview
- Dimensionality of cultural identity
- Into the future: implications for future inquiry.