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The Effects of Code Usage in Intercultural Communication. Lustig & Koester, Ch. 9. Review. Poly/ monochronic : Tips: http:// www.scribd.com/doc/54700942/monochronic-and-polychronic-time Nonverbal communication in general Case studies: Packet p. 82 Tips?.
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The Effects of Code Usagein Intercultural Communication Lustig & Koester, Ch. 9
Review • Poly/monochronic: • Tips: http://www.scribd.com/doc/54700942/monochronic-and-polychronic-time • Nonverbal communication in general • Case studies: Packet p. 82 • Tips?
Preferences in Organization of Verbal Codes • Public speeches • Written communication • Whose responsibility?
Packet, page 86 Packet, p. 88 Comparative exercise: p. 87 Chief Seattle’s speech Intercultural reasoning
Variations in Persuasion • Acceptable arguments? • Types of evidence? • Logos v. pathos • Strategies
“Logical” Patterns of Persuasion • Quasilogical style: stats, formal logic, deduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmF_yXQkVh0 • Presentational style: emotional language, rhythm, vivid words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL4FOvIf7G8 • Analogical style: story, analogy, parables, implicit lesson
For Wednesday • Exam 3: Chs 7-8-9 Answers to the questions on page 62 of the packet • Complete and bring SG 10 • Complete and bring Packet p. 91 (W or R)
Views of Silence –Views of Words African American: nommo Caucasian American: Words & reality; communication as tool to solve problems Confucian view: Words are suspect Apache: Silence & uncertainty (Basso) Speak now . . . Or is silence golden?
Conversational Rules • Topic choice • Turn-taking (e.g., the “3 rules” of turn-taking in American culture) • Topic selection • Requests • Ex: Althen: American Ways: “The Communicative Style of Americans”
Conversational Rules & Preferences • Direct or indirect? • Elaborate,exacting, or succinct? • Personal or contextual? • Instrumental or affective? Beyond our text… • Formal or informal(register) • Differentiatedor undifferentiatedcodes?
Packet, page 83-84 Packet, p. 89 (out of class) Packet, p. 90 A nice, overacted video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrJTf97Ev8o One of those computer-simulated things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryqNQnzAmBs&feature=related Conversational rules & norms
Packet, page 64 A “no-win” situation
Conversations and Intercultural Competence • Not enough to know syntax and grammar • Understand: • Organization of ideas, alternative logics • Modes of persuasion, means and ends • Conversational structures, rules • A puzzle, not a problem