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Non-Western Perspectives on Human Communication
Implications for Theory and Practice
- Min-Sun Kim - University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA
September 2002 | 248 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This book challenges the longstanding individualistic model on which most western intercultural research is based. It proposes a non-western way of conceptualizing identity - the cornerstone of cultural research - and shows how traditional western and non-western views can be blended into a broader, more realistic understanding of cultures and communication. Grounding her work in a thorough knowledge of the literature, the author challenges students and researchers alike to reexamine their approach to intercultural study.
I. INTRODUCTION
1. "Who am I?": Cultural Variations in Self-Systems
2. Independent and Interdependent Models of the Self as Cultural Frame
3. Why Self-Construals are Useful
ii. CULTURAL RELATIVITY OF COMMINCATION CONSTRUCTS AND THEORIES: "U.S.- CENTRISM"
4. "Communication Apprehension": "Deficiency" or "Politeness"?
5. Motivation to "Approach" Verbal Communication: Is Communication Approach Always Healthy?
6. Conflict Management Styles: Is Avoidance Really a "Lose-Lose"?
7. Cognitive Consistency: A Cultural Assumption?
8. Attitude-Behavior Consistency: Cultural Ideal of the Individualistic Society
9. Susceptibility to Social Influence: Conformity or "Tact"?
10. Internal Control Ideology and Communication: Are Internals "Good Guys" and Externals "Bad Guys"?
11. Deceptive Communication: Moral Choice or Social Necessity?
12. Self-Disclosure: Bragging vs. Negative Self-Disclosure
13. Silence: "Is It Really Golden?"
14. Acculturative Communication Competence: Who Bears the Burden of Adjustment?
III. TOWARDS A BI-DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF CULTURAL IDENTITY
15. The Sources of Dualism: Mechanistic Cartesian Worldview
16. Dimensionality of Cultural Identity
IV. CONCLUSION-TOWARDS MODELS OF MATURITY
17. Into the Future: Implications for Future Inquiry
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