Define Terms of Intercultural Communication Flashcards

Communication that takes place between persons of different cultures or between persons who have different cultural beliefs, values, or ways of behaving.

Any person or thing that creates messages; for example, an individual speaking, writing, or gesturing or a computer solving a problem.

Any person or thing that takes in messages. They may be individuals listening to or reading a message, a group of persons hearing a speech, a scattered TV audience, or machines that store information.

Both functions are performed by each individual in interpersonal communication of sourcing and receiving.

The act of producing messages, such as speaking and writing. Taking a message in one form (for example, nerve impulses) and translating it into another another form (for example, sound waves). In human communication the ___ is the speaking mechanism.

The act of understating messages, such as listening and reading. Taking a message to one form (sound waves) and translating it into another form (nerve impulses) from which meaning can be formulated. In human communication the ___ is the auditory mechanism.

The two activities are performed in combination by each participant of decoding and encoding a message.

Any signal or combination of signals that serves as a stimulus for a receiver. It may be olfactory, tactile, auditory, visual, gustatory.

Information that is given back to the source. It may come from the sources own messages (as when you hear what you’re are saying) or from the receiver in forms of applause, yawing, puzzled looks, questions, letters to the editor of a newspaper, increased or decreased subscriptions to a magazine.

Information that is sent before a regular message, telling the listener something about what is to follow; a message that is prefatory to a mire central message. For example, the table of contents in a book or the cover of a magazine.

The vehicle or medium through which messages are sent. For example, in face to face interaction you interact by gesturing and visuals (the gestural- visual channel), speaking and listening (vocal auditory channel), emitting odors and receive smells (chemical- olfactory channel), and last touching (cutaneous tactile channel).

Anything that interferes with your receiving a message as the source intended the message to be received. It is present in communication to the extent that the message is received is not the message sent. (physical, physiological, psychological, semantic)

The physical, psychological, social, and temporal environment in which communication takes place

• the branch of psychology that deals with the rightness and wrongness of actions; the study of moral value; in communication, the morality of message behavior

Knowledge about communication and the ability to engage in communication effectively.