Identify what is studied in the field of cross-cultural communication as compared with intercultural communication.

What will be an ideal response?


Cross-cultural communication compares the communication styles and patterns of
people from very different cultural/social structures, such as nation-states. Intercultural
communication deals with how people from cultural/social structures speak to one
another and what difficulties or differences they encounter, over and above the different
languages they speak.

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Which of the following is a guideline for maintaininging friendships?

A) Agree with whatever a friend says. B) Listen and respond to what a friend says. C) Discuss surface issues rather than personal issues. D) Change your ideas to match those of a friend.

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Which of the following are major components of the Toulmin model of argumentation?

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Our sense of familiarity and comfort within our own cultures is known as ________.

A. preferred personality B. embodied ethnocentrism C. uncertainty avoidance D. symbolic significance

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