{"id":2822,"date":"2021-05-05T03:42:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T03:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ccom103\/?page_id=2822"},"modified":"2021-05-05T03:42:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T03:42:29","slug":"video-signpost-verghese","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/ccom103\/learning-pathways\/communicating-across-difference\/video-signpost-verghese\/","title":{"rendered":"Video signpost – Verghese"},"content":{"rendered":"
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View video \u2013 Dr. Tom Verghese: Understanding Cultural Communication Differences [3:00 min.] Dr. Verghese discusses cross-cultural communication differences in direct and indirect communication styles, body language, and tonality, and challenges they can present. He also points out that perceptions of communication styles are always relative to your own cultural reference point.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe notion of direct and indirect communication styles is based on Hall\u2019s (1981) research, who you read about in Chapter 18.2. As Dr. Garson (2007) explains, higher context cultures tend to be more indirect, and lower context cultures tend to be more explicit, in both verbal and nonverbal messages. Learning to flex your communication style in different cultural contexts can help you frame messages more appropriately, and avoid misunderstandings. Dr. Garson reminds that no one culture is purely high or low context, and there is a great deal of individual style variation within cultures as well.\n<\/p>\n\n

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