| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 227 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-216) and index. |
| Summary |
Min-Sun Kim challenges the longstanding individualistic model on which most Western intercultural research is based. She proposes a new way of conceptualizing identity by blending traditional and non-Western views into a broader, more realistic understanding of cultures and communication. |
| Contents |
"Who am I?" Cultural variations in self-systems -- Independent and interdependent models of the self as cultural frame -- Why self-construals are useful -- U.S.-centrism: cultural relativity of communication constructs and theories -- Communication apprehension: deficiency or politeness? -- Motivation to approach verbal communication: is communication approach always healthy? -- Conflict management styles: is avoidance really a lose-lose? -- Cognitive consistency: a cultural assumption? -- Attitude-behavior consistency: cultural ideal of individualistic society? -- Susceptibility to social influence: conformity or tact? -- Internal control ideology and interpersonal communication -- Deceptive communication: moral choice or social necessity? -- Self-disclosure: bragging vs. negative self-disclosure -- Silence: is it really golden? -- Models of acculturative communication competence: who bears the burden of adaptation? -- Toward a bidimensional model of cultural identity -- The sources of dualism: mechanistic Cartesian worldview -- Dimensionality of cultural identity -- Into the future: implications for future inquiry. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Communication and culture.
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Communication and culture. |
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Intercultural communication.
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Intercultural communication. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kim, Min-Sun. Non-western perspectives on human communication. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2002 (DLC) 2002005209 (OCoLC)49650203 |
| ISBN |
9781452264349 (electronic book) |
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1452264341 (electronic book) |
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9781452233178 (ebook) |
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1452233179 (ebook) |
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0761923500 |
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0761923519 (paperback) |
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9780761923503 |
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9780761923510 (paperback) |
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