Essay 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,they might take it for granted that communication is a complex continuousprocess which has many nonverbal as well as verbal components. It is in theencounter with a stranger or being in a strange situation which inherent uncertainness.Having expectations how a stranger may act or how to act in astrange situation can help to reduce this uncertainness. These expectationsare based on particular social convention, which are part of what is vaguecalled culture (Payer: 2011). If a situation cannot meet the expectations, peoplebecome suddenly aware that, because all customary behaviors conveyinformation, they struggle to understand the happening until they know theparticular cultural code (Leach:1996:9p ). A cultural code describes the systemof representation by which signs and their meanings are arranged by culturalconvention to temporarily stabilize significances in particular ways(Barker 2005: 436). Traffic lights are coded in a sequence: red for stop, orangefor pause and green for go.
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