Chapter 2: Cultural Influence on Communication

Question 1

Culture

Answer 1

Provides frame or schema for living in a specified group of people

Question 2

UNESCO defintion

Answer 2

Dynamic value system of learned attitudes with assumptions, conventions, beliefs and rules that permit group to relate to each other and world

Question 3

Padden and Humphries definition

Answer 3

Set of learned behaviors of a group of people who have their own language, values, rules of behaviors and traditions.

Question 4

Kohls defintion

Answer 4

Defines a community’s general beliefs, religious beliefs, myths, values, and knowledge.

Question 5

Components of culture

Answer 5

Knowledge
Beliefs
Art
Morals
Laws
Customs
Other habits

Question 6

Three subsets of culture

Answer 6

Material
Behavioral
Cognitive

Question 7

Culture and Language

Answer 7

Intertwined: language is primary medium of cultural communication. Language reflects norms, values, and lifestyle of cultures of that language.

attention-getting, appropriate eye contact, volume of speech/distance

Question 8

Collectivist culture percentage

Answer 8

70% of the world: Asia, S. America, Africa, Indigenous

Question 9

Individualist culture percentage

Answer 9

30% : The West- Europe and US

Question 10

Cultural Identity

Answer 10

One’s culture of birth influences beliefs and self concepts. Can be member of multiple groups