Dalhousie University Intercultural Communication Discussion

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1. Choose one of the course’s sections (except Cyberculture and Generational Change) and write your answer in two parts: a) Key ideas of the section (150 words; b) discuss further an aspect of the topic, providing an example that is not taken from the readings (250 words). Utilize the section’s readings as well as a minimum of one additional reference (bibliographic or website).

2. Discuss the notion of “Death of Silence” in the chapter “New Social Scenarios”, in relation to the concept of surveillance capitalism developed by S. Zuboff. Provide 2 examples of everyday life situations to illustrate your discussion. The readings are in the section Cyberculture and Generational Change.

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Running header: INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

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Intercultural Communication Discussion
Prompt 1: Non-verbal Communication (426 words)
Non-verbal communication entails all attributes of communication apart from words.
These attributes include gestures, body language, facial expressions, as well as the use of time
and space. Even in the speech itself, there exist non-verbal features that supplement it generally
known as paralanguage. Other types of nonverbal communication include kinesics, haptics,
physical appearance, proxemics, chronemics, paralanguage and silence (Moore et al,. 2010)
Kinesics refer to posture and other body movements. Haptics, on the other hand, refer to physical
touch and how it is applied in communication. Correspondingly, physical appearance can as well
communicate. Proxemics entail the use of physical space in communicating while chronemics is
the study of time. Paralanguage entails the intonation, pitch, rate of speech and volume
Nonverbal communication employs coding and decoding systems of symbols to relay
information. These symbols vary among different cultures. The meaning of these symbols is
typically instilled in children in the early childhood development stage when children mainly use
facial expressions for communication as their speech is not fully developed. Therefore, we will
explore the role of silence in interpersonal communication.
When communicating with others, people can dispense meaning to silence in the same
way they do with words, gestures and other forms of communication. There exist varying
interpretations of silence within different cultu...


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