Non-western perspectives on human communication : implications for theory and practice - Kim, Min-Sun. (Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2002)
Machine generated contents note: I: INTRODUCTION 1 1. "Who Am I?" Cultural Variations in Self-Systems 7 Evolution of Western Self-Construction: "America's Civil Religion" 10 Interdependent Self-Construals: An Alternative Framework 13 2. Independent and Interdependent Models of the Self as Cultural Frame 15 Independent Self-Construal: Individualistic Aspects of Self 16 Interdependent Self-Construal: Group-Derived Identity 17 3. Why Self-Construals Are Useful 21 Parsimony of Explanation: Impact of Culture 22 Cultural Relativity of Communication Constructs 24 II: U.S.-CENTRISM: CULTURAL RELATIVITY OF COMMUNICATION CONSTRUCTS AND THEORIES 27 4. Communication Apprehension: Deficiency or Politeness? 31 Motivation to Avoid Verbal Communication 33 Traditional View: Communication Avoidance as a Deficiency 38 Communication Avoidance Stemming From a Sensitivity to Social Contexts 39 Implications 41 5. Motivation to Approach Verbal Communication: Is Communication Approach Always Healthy? 45 Assertiveness: Standing Up for Your Own Rights 45 Argumentativeness: A Subset of Assertiveness 48 Critique and Summary 51 6. Conflict Management Styles: Is Avoidance Really a Lose-Lose? 57 Prior Conflict Management Typologies 58 Individualistic Bias in Past Conceptualizations of Conflict Styles 60 7. Cognitive Consistency: A Cultural Assumption? 69 Fundamental Assumptions of Cognitive Dissonance Theory 70 Is Cognitive Dissonance a Culture-Bound Concept? 72 8. Attitude-Behavior Consistency: Cultural Ideal of Individualistic Society? 77 Predicting Behaviors: De-Emphasizing Situations Over Attitudes 83 Emphasizing Other Sources of Behavior 86 9. Susceptibility to Social Influence: Conformity or Tact? 89 An Eco-Cultural Explanation of Conformity 91 Conformity as Social Sensitivity and Independence as Insensitivity 93 10. Internal Control Ideology and Interpersonal Communication 99 Internal Control Ideology 101 Relationship Between Locus of Control and Communication Ideology 104 11. Deceptive Communication: Moral Choice or Social Necessity? 109 Deception as a Moral Issue: Independent Perspective 111 Deception as a Social Necessity: Interdependent Perspective 114 12. Self-Disclosure: Bragging vs. Negative Self-Disclosure 121 Motivational Influences on Styles of Self-Disclosure 122 Gender and the Preferred Forms of Self-Presentation 128 13. Silence: Is It Really Golden? 131 Silence as Malfunctioning of (Human) Machines 132 Silence as Neglected Component of Human Communication 134 14. Models of Acculturative Communication Competence: Who Bears the Burden of Adaptation? 141 Assimilation Model: "Marginal Man [sic]" Perspective 144 Alternation Model: Bicultural Person Perspective 147 Host Communication Competence: One-Way Assimilation 149 Bicultural Communication Competence: A Fluid Cultural Alternation 151 III: TOWARD A BIDIMENSIONAL MODEL OF CULTURAL IDENTITY 155 15. The Sources of Dualism: Mechanistic Cartesian Worldview 159 Bias Toward Yang Communication Behaviors 162 Particle/Wave Paradox: Some preliminary Implications of Personhood for Human Communication 164 16. Dimensionality of Cultural Identity 167 Unidimensional Model of Self-Construals 167 Bidimensional Model of Cultural Identity 168 Support for the Bidimensional Model 169 Formation of Bicultural Identity 175 IV: CONCLUSION 179 17. Into the Future: Implications for Future Inquiry 183 Ideology and Beyond 183 Reclaiming Cultural Relevance of Communication Theories 185.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-216) and index.
Keywords: Intercultural communication; Communication and culture