Cultural Context

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Jam-packed (with)

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Full of people or things

SYN: crowded

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Subtle

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Not easy to notice or understand unless you pay careful attention
OPP: obvious

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Unimposing

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Not imposing or impressive in appearance; not important. Do not want to disturb others because of that

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Implicitly

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Suggested or understood without being stated; indirectly

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Explicitly

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Expressed in a way that is very clear and direct

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Cultural norms

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A societal rule, value, or standard that delineates an accepted and appropriate behavior within a culture

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Subliminal

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Affecting your mind in a way that you are not conscious of

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Interplay of language

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The ways in which two or more things, group, etc., affect each other when they happen or exist together

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Contextual clues

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Hints found within a sentence, paragraph, or passage that a reader can use to understand the meaning of new or unfamiliar words

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Semantic ambiguities

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A linguistic expression that can have multiple senses, at least when uttered out of context

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Low context/high context

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Implies that a lot of information is exchanged explicitly through the message itself and rarely is anything implicit or hidden / Don’t using a lot of verbally explicit communication and have strong boundaries that define “outsiders” to a group

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Ground rules

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The basic rules or principle on which future actions or behaviour should be based

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Language cluster

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A group of people who engage in interaction more with those from same speech community than with those from a different speech community

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Deadpan face

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Sounding or looking completely serious when you are saying or doing something funny

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Incessantly

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Arguing or talking to others continuously without stopping

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Performance appraisals

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A meeting between an employee and manager to discuss the quality of the employee’s work and areas for future progress.
SYN: Performance assessment, Performance evaluation

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Demoralize

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To reduce or destroy someone’s encourage or confidence

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Tyrant

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A ruler who has complete power and uses it in a cruel and unfair way

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Disheveled

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If someone’s appearance or their clothes, hair etc. is disheveled, they look very untidy.
SYN: messy

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Socially ill at ease

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Not relaxed in community

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Downgraders

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To make or move something to a less important point

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Decode a message

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How the message is being interpreted

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Concerted effort

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(of an attempt) to do something determined and serious, or done together with others

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Bird’s eye view

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A view of something from high above it

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Direct/indirect negative feedback

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Advice or criticism about how well someone is doing their job and what they could to do to improve explicitly/implicitly

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Cultural relativity

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The idea that a person’s beliefs and practices should be understood based on that person’s own culture

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Implicit communication

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Refers to all nonverbal elements such as choice of words, gestures, tone, sentence construction, immediacy of information, and enrichment of a message.

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Correlated

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Closely connected to each other or one causes the other

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Quadrant

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A quarter of a circle

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Subtext

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A hidden or second meaning behind someone’s words or actions

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Evaluating scale

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A close-ended survey question used to represent respondent feedback

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Constructive criticism

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Focuses on providing constructive feedback, supported by specific examples, to help you improve in some area

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Gauging

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To judge how people feel about something or what they are likely to do

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Frank criticism

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Direct and unreserved in speech