Crosscultural Differences – Floor - In SAE
- In India
- Older participants have the right to initiate conversation, maintain the floow and yield the floor
- In traditional Western Europe
- Children are admonished to be seen, not heard
- In many other cultures
- Only older males initiate, maintain and control the floor
Crosscultural Differences – Backchannel - The frequency and duration of backchannnelling behavior varies from culture to culture
- Japanese speakers Use more frequent backchannel cues and the cues are of longer duration
- Speakers of languages that are socialized in the patterns of providing frequent and longer backchannel cues may use the same strategy in English
- This may be disconcerting to the Inner circle English speaker
Crosscultural Differences – Simultaneous Talk - ‘Simultaneous talk’ is normally considered rude in Inner Circle speech communities
- Rhythmic coordination –patterning of speech and non-verbal body movements
- Sync talk – overlapping speech & synchronized head nods, both postures
- High involvement style vs. high considerateness style
FitzGerald’s 6 Styles of Interaction - Institutional/exacting (Northern and Western Europe)
- Individual autonomy, non-imposition, brevity, explicitness, linearity, goal oriented
- Spontaneous/argumentative (Eastern Europe)
- Sincerity, spontaneity, closeness, blunt, direct
- Involved/expressive (Southern Europe, Latin America)
- Warmth, emotion, expressive, concern with according positive face to others, affective and contextual, tolerates overlap, collaborative rather than competitive
FitzGerald’s 6 Styles of Interaction - Elaborate/dramatic (Middle Eastern)
- Bureaucratic/contextualized (South Asian)
- Harmonious relations, positive face, affective contextual style stressing form over content, formal bureaucratic language, inductive organization
- Succinct/subdued (East & Southeast Asian)
- How do FitzGerald’s six styles of interaction accord with the distinction seen in the video “Culturally Speaking: High Context - Low Context”?
- How do FitzGerald’s six styles of interaction accord with your own experiences?
Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
