scholarly journals Cultural Norm Configurations in Acehnese Lullaby

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 178-186
Author(s):  
Devi Pratiwy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Semantic Theory ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Speech Community ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Cultural Script ◽  
Cultural Discourse Analysis

This study is aimed to provide an overview of the cultural reality of lullaby, doda idi from Acehnese family habit.  This study describes the cultural norms and values configuration viewed from an ethno-pragmatic perspective and the local wisdom identified from the discourse. This study presents the cultural script approach. This approach is a descriptive technique that has grown out of the cross-cultural semantic theory proposed.  The cultural discourse analysis of norms and values on natural semantic meta-language theory.  It is considering that cultural norms and values constituted rules and regulations in social communication interaction practices. This lullaby linked to particular ways of speaking in the family's private domain, in this case, from mother and her child. Generally speaking, most cross-cultural communication styles assume that within a particular speech community, there are certain shared understandings about how it is appropriate to speak in a particular and cultural situation. A certain methodological technique is adopted to describe speech patterns and identify the relevant cultural values of this speech pattern. The proposed Acehnese cultural script is linked with (1) Showing high respect, (2) patriotic spirit, and (3) giving advice. The configuration of these cultural norms and values is the understanding of knowledge and wisdom in terms of the lullaby system. The configuration is constructed in low-level scripts with lexicons in semantic primes.

Cross-cultural Application of Behaviour Therapy

1991 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Higginbotham ◽  
Juriko Tanaka-Matsumi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Potential Application ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Behaviour Therapy ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Functional Analyses

The potential application of behaviour therapy to cross-cultural situations is explored as societies move to recognise their bicultural or multicultural composition. First reviewed are the moral and epistemological underpinnings of behaviour therapy and questions involving the universality of behaviour principles and technologies. Expected competencies of cross-cultural therapists are next raised. The basic message, told through examples from Australia, North American, and elsewhere, is that cultural norms and values penetrate every facet of client–therapist interaction and clinical decision-making. Competently performed functional analyses can produce culturally accommodating interventions that respond to culture-specific definitions of deviancy, accepted norms of role behaviour, expectations of change techniques, and approved behaviour change practitioners.

scholarly journals Pride in Education: A Narrative Study of Five Finnish Schoolteachers

SAGE Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824401984548
Author(s):  
Matthew Etherington
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Emotional Response ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Narrative Study ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Positive Feature

This narrative inquiry explores how Finnish schoolteachers perceived the emotion of pride as a feature of teaching and learning. The study consists of face-to-face interviews with Finnish schoolteachers between 30 and 62 years of age. The results reveal perceptions of teaching and learning that are shaped by a culture of social equality, modesty, group achievement, and tenacity, that is, Sisu. Although the teachers understand achievement pride as a positive feature of learning, in association with cultural norms and values, pride is not a significant emotional response to promote in the classroom. The results are important for understanding how teachers exploit larger cultural values to judge the worth of particular emotions in the classroom.

Misunderstanding in cross-cultural communication

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen FitzGerald
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Workplace Training ◽  
Spoken Discourse ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Immigrant Professionals

This paper examines the spoken discourse of immigrant professionals problem solving in small groups in order to see how different cultural values both influence, and are reflected in, the way a problem is defined and solutions proposed. It also provides evidence that these values are one of the factors that contribute to miscommunication in this type of communication. Three types of miscommunication are identified: misinterpretation of the message because a cultural filter distorts the message; incomplete comprehension because the underlying values are not explicated and the hearers remain unaware of the full implications of the message; and comprehension but misunderstanding and dissonance because the values of the hearers are at variance with the reality of the message. The extent to which the views of individuals conformed to the value systems general ascribed to their cultural background is discussed and instances of individual variance noted. Finally, the implications for teaching and workplace training suggested by these findings are discussed.

India’s Accommodation in the Emerging International Order: Challenges and Prospects

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-437
Author(s):  
Vikash Chandra
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
National Interest ◽  
International Order ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Rising Powers ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Structural Variables ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Rising China ◽  
Sphere Of Influence

This article has two-fold goals: to develop a coherent concept of accommodation and explicate variable shaping the process of accommodation; and to analyse and evaluate the challenges and prospects of India’s accommodation in the emerging international order. It defines accommodation as a ‘state strategy’ and ‘process’. It figures out six determinants viz. the sphere of influence, structural variables, convergence/divergence of national interest, perception and intention towards the international order, political and socio-cultural values, and costs of non- accommodation. Instead of addressing the process of accommodation from accommodation-seekers’ perspective, the article investigates the issue from accommodators’ perspective. Therefore, rather than describing traditional foundations of India’s claim of accommodation, i.e. population, territory, military, and democracy, it illustrates conditions under which the established power accommodate rising powers. By comparing and contrasting India’s interests, principles, and values vis-à-vis the USA and China, it demonstrates how differing strategic calculations, economic and commercial interests and divergence in political socio-cultural norms and values, China is posing or may pose challenges to India’s accommodation. It suggests that India needs to strike a balance between the declining America and rising China. It will have to learn how not to turn China from an adversary to an enemy. A prudent strategy for India will be to balance China, however, in the non-military, i.e. diplomatic, political and economic realms. Nevertheless, the engagement dimension should not be marginalised, actual or even perceived.

scholarly journals Cross-Cultural Communication Issues of Educating Bicultural Students

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeriia Petrovna Osadchaia ◽  
Olga Lvovna Ivanova ◽  
Elizaveta Iosifovna Getman
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Teaching Culture ◽  
Intercultural Awareness ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication

The article is devoted to the importance of incorporating of a foreign culture learning, acquiring cross-cultural communication and cultural awareness skills in a foreign language teaching. The authors point out that teaching culture in foreign language teaching context should include cultural knowledge, cultural values, cultural skills and behavior. The author also emphasize that attitudes to teaching culture in the process of foreign language teaching involve, on the one side, considering teaching culture as teaching the fifth language skill along with speaking, listening, reading and writing, implying teaching cultural sensitivity and cultural awareness or the behavior in certain cultural situations, and on the other side, regarding language as social practice being defined by culture in which culture becomes the core of language teaching with cultural awareness viewed as enabling language proficiency. Cultural awareness is the foundation of communication; it helps to understand cultural values, beliefs, and perceptions of the other culture. Training of both bilingual and bicultural students at higher educational institutions is of primary significance. Intercultural awareness presumes a number of skills, improving students’ native culture and other cultures’ awareness and understanding. The authors come to the conclusion that intercultural awareness skills imply overcoming misinterpretations and accepting differences.

Re-production at Stake: Experiences of Family Planning and Fertility among Amdo Tibetan Women

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Schrempf
Keyword(s):  
Family Planning ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Qinghai Province ◽  
Economic Production ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Public Clinics

Abstract Biographical interviews with Tibetan women in rural Amdo (Qinghai Province, China) indicate that many women above 40 years of age experienced family planning as a threat to their reproductive health, social status and economic production. Even though family planning, implemented since 1980, was experienced differently among the targeted women, they nevertheless addressed the same social pressure of having to reconcile normative birth control administered by the Chinese state with Tibetan socio-cultural norms and values of fertility focused upon preferences for sons. Renowned female Tibetan doctors in private and public clinics and hospitals were Tibetan women’s preferred and trusted addressees for voluntary birth control and reproductive health. I argue therefore, that in order to understand the effects of family planning on targeted Tibetan women, socio-cultural values of fertility need to be taken into account as they are expressed in women’s narratives of their bio-psycho-social, gendered and ethnic selves.

COMMUNICATION DIFFERENCES AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Slagjana Stojanovska ◽  
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Kristina Velichkovska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Multicultural Teams ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Communication Differences

This paper aims to examine the challenges of cross-cultural communication in multicultural teams and the resolution of conflicts arising during that process of communication. For this purpose, a survey was conducted on individuals coming from various cultural backgrounds to determine how cultural differences affect the organizational communication styles, their perception of conflict situations and the choice of conflict resolution procedures. The study is underpinned by a literature review of cross-cultural communication and theories on culture, conflict resolution and multicultural team dynamics. Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions Theory will be used to define the cultural differences using four dimensions: power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism vs collectivism, and masculinity vs femininity. The outcome of the study assesses the intercultural communication competence of employees in North Macedonia and gives recommendations on how to improve communication and avoid conflicts that plague multicultural teams.

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