2. Intercultural Communication Terminology

3. Cultural pattern High context communication Power distance Low context communication Cultural Patterns is communication in which most of the information is already in the person, while very little is in the coded, explicitly transmitted part of the message. is communication in which the mass of the information is vested in the explicit code. is the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organizations accept that power is distributed unequally. That is to say, how equal or unequal the people in a particular culutre think people should be. Chapter 7 deals with the degree to which members of a culture try to avoid uncertainty. Uncertainty avoidance refers to shared beliefs, values, norms, and social practices that are stable over time and that lead to roughly similar behaviors across similar situations.