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Enculturation

is the socialization process you go through to adopt to your society

Frontage culture

is the cultural information that you are willing to share with outsiders

backstage culture

is the cultural information that is concealed from outsiders.

Acculturation

is the process of adjusting and adapting to a new different culture

Cultural Synergy

• people of two different culture absorbs a significant number of each cultural differences and have a number of similarities

• place with the two cultures merging to from a stronger overriding culture.

Ethnocentrism

is the belief that your own cultural background, encoding ways of analyzing problems, values, belief, language, and verbal and nonverbal communication is correct. One’s culture is superior to all

formal register

is more appropriate for professional writing and letters to a boss or a stranger

Language register

is the level and style of your writing

informal register (also called casual or intimate)

is conversational and appropriate when writing to friends and people you know very well

neutral register

is non-emotional and sticks to facts. It is most appropriate for technical writings

Local everyday written

This may include instances of local everyday written usage found in the neighborhood posters e.g. a poster looking for transients/bed spacers

Language Issue

• Do we all speak the same?

• Not everyone is totally confident in using it

Conflict Resolution

• Do We Solve Our Disagreements the Same?

• Different cultures approach conflict and disagreement in sometimes very contrasting ways

Gender Roles

• Do we see gender roles the same?

• Every culture or society has its own understanding of gender relations and acts according to them.

• What is acceptable in one culture may offend in the other

Decision-making

• Do we come to conclusions the came?

• Different cultures have different ways of making and expecting decisions to be made

The exact nature of utterance

• clarity and precision of what is spoken or written.

• A good utterance should be clear, direct, and meaningful, without unnecessary words or ambiguity

The Bookish “Space Wasters”

• unnecessary, overly formal, or outdated words and phrases that add bulk to writing but don’t contribute much meaning. They can make writing sound unnatural, pretentious, or overly complex

The Use of Complicated Sentence-Units

• refers to long, overly complex sentences that make it difficult for the reader to follow the main idea

Field

The subject matter or purpose of communication

Tenor

The relationship between the people communicating

Mode

Whether the communication is spoken or written

Local everyday written

Informal written communication within a local community

Local everyday oral

may occur in local communication among neighbors in everyday, informal and local varieties of languages

Local specialized written

An example of this can be found in the publications and web sites of local societies such as the Baguio Midland Courier

Local specialized oral

involves specialized discourses

Global everyday written

avoids local colloquialisms to make the text accessible to wider communities of readers. This can be found in international editions of newspapers and magazines

Global everyday oral

may occur in interactions between people coming from different parts of the world when they talk about everyday casual topics

Global specialized written

expands to as many readers internationally, hence the non-usage of local colloquial expressions

Global specialized oral

occurs when people from different parts of the world discuss specialized topics in spoken form

Language

reflects the realities of a given culture and affects the way its members define their experiences