Vocabulary Flashcards
Interdependent
Depend on each other; consisting of parts that depends on each other.
E.g. Interdependent economies/organizations/relationships
Empirical
Based on experiments or experience rather than ideas or theories.
E.g. An empirical study/ empirical evidence
OPP: theoretical
Perception
An idea, a belief or an image you have as a result of how you see or understand something.
E.g. Cultural self-perception
Presupposition
Something that you believe to be true and use as the beginning of an argument even though it is not proved; The act of believing it is true
E.g. Cultural presuppositions
SYN: assumption
Ethnocentrism
Ethnocentrism is judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one’s own culture.
Based on the ideas and believes of one particular culture and using these to judge other cultures.
Inconspicuous
Not attracting attention; not easy to notice
Vocalics
Sound; how we use sound
E.g. Speaking softly or loudly
Kinesics
Face/gestures
The use of body in non-verbal communication
Oculesics
The use of eye contact
Haptics
Touch; soft/hard
Also if the social norms allows it.
Proximics
Space or distance
Chronemics
Time; how do we look at time - the use of time
E.g. Multitasking vs chronological
Heretofore
A formal way of saying ‘before this time’.
Pidgin - Pidginized
A simplified speech used for communication between people with different languages.
A language that is formed from a mixture of several languages when speakers of different languages need to talk to each other.
Creolized
(Of a language)
Formerly a pidgin but now the native language of a group of speakers, with consequent enrichment of the vocabulary by borrowing and creating.
