• Introduction

• Culture and Communication

What is culture?
What is communication?
How does culture relate to communication?

• Context and Communication

• Psychological Frame of Reference

• Cultural Frame of Reference

High context vs. low context cultures
Collectivistic vs. individualistic cultures

• Social Frame of Reference

• Spatial Frame of Reference

Intimate distance
Personal distance
Social distance
Public distance

• Temporal Frame of Reference

Biological time
Mechanical time
Psychological time
Social time
Polychronic time
Monochronic time

• Historical Frame of Reference

• Non-Verbal Communication

Chronemics
Proxemics
Vocalics

Content dimension of communication

Relational dimension of communication

Kinesics
Olfactics
Oculesics
Haptics