{"product_id":"the-cycle-of-culture-communication-and-identity-von-rosa-grieser","title":"The cycle of culture, communication and identity","description":"\u003cp\u003eEssay from the year 2012 in the subject Communications - Intercultural Communication, grade: 1.3, Charles Darwin University, language: English, abstract: When human beings are in the company of relatives, friends and neighbors,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethey might take it for granted that communication is a complex continuous\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprocess which has many nonverbal as well as verbal components. It is in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eencounter with a stranger or being in a strange situation which inherent uncertainness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving expectations how a stranger may act or how to act in a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estrange situation can help to reduce this uncertainness. These expectations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eare based on particular social convention, which are part of what is vague\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecalled culture (Payer: 2011). If a situation cannot meet the expectations, people\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebecome suddenly aware that, because all customary behaviors convey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einformation, they struggle to understand the happening until they know the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eparticular cultural code (Leach:1996:9p ). A cultural code describes the system\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof representation by which signs and their meanings are arranged by cultural\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econvention to temporarily stabilize significances in particular ways\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Barker 2005: 436). Traffic lights are coded in a sequence: red for stop, orange\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor pause and green for go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783656405788\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783656405788","offer_id":39438426570845,"sku":"9783656405788","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/a1ef8676-ac8e-48e6-b82c-b9a66e06a722.jpg?v=1778304676","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-cycle-of-culture-communication-and-identity-von-rosa-grieser","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}