Chapter 22 Cross Cultural

What are basic notions of cross-cultural communication?

• main theories of cross-cultural communication

• cross-cultural communication as a field of study

• concept of culture

• difference between “communication” and “interaction”

The key concept in understanding intercultural communication is the concept of _____

What are primary cultural dimensions?

• patterns of thought

• patterns of economy

• patterns of artifacts

• patterns of behavior

The key difference between communication and interaction is that interaction is a ___ term while communication is a part of the interaction.

Multicultural refers to a society that contains several cultural or ethnic groups

• TRUE

• FALSE

Cross-cultural deals with the comparison of different persons  

• TRUE

• FALSE

What is the first reason for studying intercultural communication?

Cross-cultural communication as a field of study is a combination of many other scholarly fields. These fields include _______

• anthropology

• psychology

• linguistics

• communication and cultural studies

This approach aims at understanding and describing human behavior

• the sociocultural approach

• the social science approach

• the critical approach

• the interpretive approach

Where are the roots of Chinese civilization? Where did Chinese civilization come from?

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