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In Interpersonal Messages , I include this discussion prompt. The Cultural Defense Consider these two cases (Sikora, 2001): (1) A Chinese immigrant discovers that his wife has been unfaithful. In a rage, he kills his wife. His defense was that this is the way his culture has taught him to react to infidelity. (2) An Iraqi family flees to the United States to avoid a dictator and while in the United States their daughters (ages 13 and 14) are wed to Iraqi men in their 20’s, and their parents are charged with child abuse and delinquency of a minor. Their defense was that they were simply following Iraqi tradition which permits marriages of young girls of this age. If you were on the jury listening to these two cases, how would you respond? More generally, how do you feel about “cultural defenses”? Are there some cultural defenses you’d accept and others you would not? More recently there appeared this news item of a man who prevented a rescuer from saving his drowning daughter so that s...

Here's a great post on divorce . In addition, there's a wonderful summary of research on a variety of topics relating to divorce and relationship breakup.

It's a real pleasure to post this translation into Vietnamese by Nicy Nguyen of a post on Apologies and Excuses. For more information on such translations check out:  http://www.coupofy.com ·          Latest Translations Sự Bào Chữa Và Lời Xin Lỗi By  Coupofy USA  on  August 12, 2015 in  English to Vietnamese The Communication Blog Một diễn đàn cho người sử dụng bất kỳ các văn bản của tôi, nhưng thực sự cho bất cứ ai quan tâm đến thông tin liên lạc giữa các cá nhân, các nguyên tắc cơ bản của thông tin liên lạc của con người, và để nói trước công chúng. 5.24.2008 Tôi đã viết lại đoạn trên về lời diện lý do cho các phiên bản tiếp theo của TICB và tôi nghĩ rằng nó có thể có ích để đăng bài ở đây. Sự khác biệt giữa bài này và một trong những ấn bản lần thứ 11 là điều này phân biệt rõ ràng hơn về lý do diện cớ và lời xin lỗi cùng thảo luận về một số tính chất để hiệu quả hơn lời xin lỗi. Chuẩn bị vấn đề cho cuộc đàm thoại: Việ...

Here's a neat guide to a variety of infographics   that have much to say about various aspects of communication. Thanks for sending me this, Heather Brown: http://www.infobrandz.com/great-big-list-of-infographic-ideas/

I want to apologize to users of my Interpersonal Communication Book , 14th edition. A paragraph was omitted in the printing. The following paragraph would be inserted on page 130 before "Personal Distance."  Intimate Distance.   In intimate distance , ranging from actual touching to 18 inches, the presence of the other individual is unmistakable. Each person experiences the sound, smell, and feel of the other’s breath. You use intimate distance for lovemaking, comforting, and protecting. This distance is so short that most people do not consider it proper in public. Again, I apologize.

I'm developing this exercise for possible use in the new edition of Human Communication and I thought it might be of interest more generally for just about any course in speech communication or interpersonal communication. The ten items I have below can be changed and probably should be changed to better reflect the specific students in the class.  The Exercise This exercise is designed to explore the differences in difficulty of various communication interactions: what makes for a difficult communication experience, what individual differences influence what constitutes difficult communication, and the skills needed to make difficult communication easier. To Know Communication theorists and researchers often argue over whether communication is easy or difficult. Of course, if you think about the various communication interactions you engage in everyday, you’d have to conclude that communication is both easy and difficult. Some communication interactions are simple, easy, and are ...

This exercise is designed to help explain the concept of politeness in terms of positive and negative face (Brown & Levinson, 1987; Cupach & Metts, 1994; Goffman, 1967; Goldsmith, 2007; Holmes 1995; Metts & Cupach, 2008). To Know In Brown and Levinson’s (1987) theory of politeness, based in part on Goffman’s (1967) concept of face, we all have basically two needs: (1) the need to maintain positive face and (2) the need to maintain negative face. Positive face refers to the desire to be viewed positively by others, to be thought of favorably, to be held in high esteem. Negative face refers to the desire to be autonomous, to have the right to do as you wish, to not be imposed upon. Politeness in interpersonal communication, then, refers to behavior that allows others to maintain both positive and negative face; and impoliteness refers to behaviors that attack either positive face (for example, you criticize someone) or negative face (for example, you make demands on someone)...