Intercultural Communication Defintions Ch. 1-3

Intercultural communication 4th edition chapters 1-3 glossary terms

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Context
The cultural physical, relational, and perceptual environment in which communication occurs
Perceptual context
Includes all of the motivations, intentions , and personality traits people bring to the communication event.
Communication
The dynamic process of encoding and decoding verbal and nonverbal messages within a defined cultural, physiological, socio-relational, and perceptual environment
Communication apprehension
The fear or anxiety people experience when communicating with others
Personal report of communication apprehension
Scale designed to measure your degree of communication apprehension
Culture
Accumulated pattern of values, beliefs, and behaviors, shared by an identifiable group of people with a common history and verbal and nonverbal systems
Microculture
Coexist within the main society (also identified as the"minority" or "subculture"
Environmental context
Represents the physical, geographical location of the interaction
Sociorelational context
Refers to the relationship between the interactants
Intercultural communication apprehension
The fear or anxiety associated with either real or anticipated interaction with people from different groups, especially different cultural or ethnic groups.
Ethnocentrism
To the idea that one's own culture is the center of everything and all other groups (or cultures) are scaled and rated with reference to it
GENE scale
Designed to measure ethnocentrism
Dynamic
Something considered active and forceful
Intentionality
During communication, the voluntary and conscious encoding and decoding of messages
Interactive
A process between two people