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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kim, Dr. Min-Sun
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.