CHAPTER 7 HCOM 320

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CHAPTER 7HCOM 320

• What Are the Major Differences in Intercultural
  Verbal Styles?

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Low and High Context Frameworks

• LCC
• Explicit verbal
• Easily decoded
• Spell out everything
• No restraints
• Say write sign
• Direct
• US males

• HCC
• Implicit codes
• Indirect verbal mode
• Hidden meanings
• Indirect hints/NVC signals for face-saving
• US females - HCC

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Verbal Style Comparisons

• Direct vs. indirect
• mannerisms interpretation
• Direct verbal style
• Indirect verbal style
• attempt not to hurt others (face-saving)
• Complementary
• Animated conversational style
• Understated conversational style

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Talk Silence

• Cultural differences
• HCC LCC
• French absence of established relationship
• European Americans disapproval
• Western empty pauses
• Break the ice intimate relationships

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JOHARI WINDOW

• OPEN HIDDEN
• BLIND UNKNOWN

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FACE-NEGOTIATION

• Face social self-worth person wants others to
  have of him/her
• Types
• Self-face concern upholding our identities
• Other-face concern respect support for other
• Face loss
• Face issues