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1. Introduction
1.1. Major Issues
1.2. An Alternative Framework
1.3. The Weaknesses of Traditional Etic Orientations
2. Redefinition
2.1. Conceptual Redefinition
2.2. Methodological Re-focusing
2.3. The Mystery of the Other
3. Third-culture building
3.1. Culture and Change
3.2. Negotiating Meaning
3.3. Categorizing Cultures
4. Building a communication based third-culture model
5. A graphic representation
5.1. Phases of Third-culture Building
5.1.1. Phase 1
5.1.2. Phase 2
5.1.3. Phase 3
5.1.4. Phase 4
6. Conclusions: the outcome of the process
References
International Journal of Intercultural Relations
Volume 23, Issue 1, 1 February 1999, Pages 91–116
Foundations for the study of intercultural communication based on a third-culture building model
Fred L. Casrnir1
1 Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA 90263, USA
Available online 18 February 1999
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Abstract
The author questions the adequacy of traditional and modern approaches to the study of intercultural communication, which have been based on consideration of culture as an organized orderly endstate. Emic conclusions of such studies were frequently the result of social scientists interpretations, commonly based on their scientific cultures value systems and expectations rather than resulting from the study of intercultural communication processes themselves. A number of scholars have questioned both the approach to and the results of such efforts. The author suggests instead the application of a post-modern chaotic conceptual model of culture, making use of a third-culture building explanatory concept, as more adequately suited to the exploration and understanding of the dynamic nature of intercultural communication processes. The resulting changes in culture are part of a never ending process of adaptation for the sake of human survival.