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  2. Co-cultural communication theory - Wikipedia

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    The co-culture theory was created to provide a voice for minority cultures. Orbe's identified five primary points and five significant factors associated with co-culture theory. These primary factors serve to identify the preferred outcomes concerning intercultural communication. Co-cultural communication theory posits three potential outcomes ...

  3. Linguistic relativity - Wikipedia

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    Totally unrelated languages share in one culture; closely related languages—even a single language—belong to distinct culture spheres. There are many excellent examples in Aboriginal America. The Athabaskan languages form as clearly unified, as structurally specialized, a group as any that I know of.

  4. Linguistic relativity and the color naming debate - Wikipedia

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    [34] Differences in color categorization between languages are caused by differences in the overall usefulness of color to a culture or language group. [35] Different areas of the world can differ widely in environment and the colors readily available in that environment. These environmental differences can also have an influence on color naming.

  5. Cognitive effects of bilingualism - Wikipedia

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    However, co-activation of L1 and L2 has also been reported in bilinguals whose two languages have different scripts (writing systems), [47] lexical forms (e.g. Japanese and English), [48] and modality (e.g. English and American Sign Language). [49] The Stroop task, which shows color names in a different color, tests inhibition and distraction.

  6. Intercultural communication - Wikipedia

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    Intercultural communication is a discipline that studies communication across different cultures and social groups, or how culture affects communication.It describes the wide range of communication processes and problems that naturally appear within an organization or social context made up of individuals from different religious, social, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.

  7. Cultural psychology - Wikipedia

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    Cultural psychology is often confused with cross-cultural psychology.Even though both fields influence each other, cultural psychology is distinct from cross-cultural psychology in that cross-cultural psychologists generally use culture as a means of testing the universality of psychological processes rather than determining how local cultural practices shape psychological processes. [12]

  8. Bicameral mentality - Wikipedia

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    In other words, according to Block, humans were conscious all along but did not have the concept of consciousness and thus did not discuss it in their texts. Daniel Dennett countered that for some things, such as money, baseball, or consciousness, one cannot have the thing without also having the concept of the thing. [31] [32] [33]

  9. Critical period hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The theory has often been extended to a critical period for second-language acquisition (SLA). David Singleton states that in learning a second language, "younger = better in the long run", but points out that there are many exceptions, noting that five percent of adult bilinguals master a second language even though they begin learning it when they are well into adulthood—long after any ...