1. Culture Shock

2. Anxiety

3. Cultural norms

4. Acculturative Stress

5. Cultural Discomfort

6. Predisposition to initiate intercultural interaction with persons from different cultures even when completely free to choose whether or not to communicate

1. Intercultural Willingness to Communicate

2. Knowledge Component

3. Adjustment Phase

4. Integration

5. Socio Relational Context

7. The extent of one's awareness of another's culture's values etc. Also the extent to which one is cognitively simple, rigid, and ethnocentric

1. Knowledge Component

2. Acculturation

3. Integration

4. Culture Shock

5. High Context

8. The extent to which one can translate cultural knowledge into appropriate verbal and nonverbal performance and role enactment

1. Psychomotor Features

2. Situational Features

3. Willingness to Communicate

4. Situational Features

5. Marginalization

9. The extent to which the environmental context, previous contact, status differential and third party intervention affect one’s competence during intercultural communication

1. Situational Features

2. Psychomotor Features

3. Knowledge Component

4. Psychomotor Features

5. Socio Relational Context

10. The major premise of this theory is that when strangers first meet, their primary goal is to reduce uncertainty

1. Uncertainty Reduction Theory

2. Theory of Probability

3. Theory and Practice

4. Association Theory

5. Information Theory

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1. Marriage that is initiated and negotiated by a third party, other than the bride and groom

1. Arranged Marriage

2. Misalliance

3. Matrimony

4. Unequal Marriage

5. Polygyny

2. An individual's ability to make requests, actively disagree, and express positive or negative personal rights and feelings

1. Assertiveness

2. Responsiveness

3. Regulators

4. Relational Empathy

5. Affect Displays

3. The practice of having multiple husbands

1. Polyandry

2. Polygamy

3. Matrimony

4. Polygyny

5. Misalliance

4. The practice of having multiple spouses

1. Polygamy

2. Matrimony

3. Polygamy

4. Misalliance

5. Polyandry

5. Shared meaning and harmonization that is the outcome or result of the interaction of two people

1. Relational Empathy

2. Uncertainty

3. Cultural Context

4. Integration

5. Situational Features

6. An individual's ability to be sensitive to the communication of others, including providing feedback, comforting communication, and listening

1. Responsiveness

2. Assertiveness

3. Responsibility

4. Intelligence

5. Politeness

7. The amount of predictability in a communication situation

1. Uncertainty

2. Empathy

3. Sympathy

4. Integration

5. Acculturation

8. An accumulated pattern of values, beliefs, and behavior held by an identifiable group of people with a common verbal and nonverbal symbol system.

1. Cultural Context

2. Environmental Context

3. High Context

4. Low Context

5. Relational Empathy

9. The geographical and psychological location of communication within some cultural context

1. Environmental Context

2. Cultural Context

3. High Context

4. Low Context

5. Relational Empathy

10. The perception and use of time

1. Chronemics

2. Time management

3. Syntactic Symbols

4. Adaptors

5. Uncertainty

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1. Symbols that express grammatical relationships for other symbols, such as possession or tense

1. Syntactic Symbols

2. Adaptors

3. Chronemics

4. Situational Features

5. Regulators

2. The idea that all languages share a common rule structure or grammar that is innate in human beings, regardless of culture

1. Universal Grammar

2. Situational Features

3. Grammar Symbols

4. Emblems

5. Chronemics

3. Mostly unconscious nonverbal actions that satisfy physiological or psychological needs such as scratching an itch

1. Adaptors

2. Grammar Symbols

3. Emblems

4. Chronemics

5. Features

4. Nonverbal presentations of emotion, primarily communicated through facial expressions

1. Affect Displays

2. Situational Features

3. Grammar Symbols

4. Low Context

5. Relational Empathy

5. Primarily hand gestures that have a direct verbal translation. Can be used to repeat or substitute for verbal communication

1. Emblems

2. Paralanguage

3. Kinesics

4. Haptics

5. Illustrators

6. Nonverbal communication via physical contact or touch

1. Haptics

2. Illustrators

3. Emblems

4. Paralanguage

5. Kinesics

7. Primarily hand and arm movements that function to accent or complement speech

1. Illustrators

2. Emblems

3. Adaptors

4. Symbols

5. Emblems

8. General category of body motion, including emblems, illustrators, affect displays, and adaptors

1. Kinesics

2. Cultural Context

3. High Context

4. Low Context

5. Relational Empathy

9. Theory that posits that people hold expectations about the nonverbal behavior of others. When these expectations are violated, people evaluate the violation positively or negatively depending on the source of the violation.

1. Nonverbal Expectancy Violations Theory

2. Uncertainty Reduction Theory

3. Theory of Probability

4. Theory and Practice

5. Association Theory

10. The perception and use of smell, scent, and odor

1. Olfactics

2. Paralanguage

3. Proxemics

4. Haptics

5. Adaptors

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1. Characteristics of the voice such as pitch, rhythm, intensity, volume, and rate

1. Paralanguage

2. Proxemics

3. Haptics

4. Adaptors

5. Low Context

2. The perception and use of space, including territoriality and personal space.

1. Proxemics

2. Haptics

3. Adaptors

4. Olfactics

5. Paralanguage

3. Nonverbal acts that manage and govern communication between people, such as stance, distance, eye contact, etc

1. Regulators

2. Haptics

3. Adaptors

4. Illustrators

5. Emblems

4. The total combination of one's group roles. A part of the individual's self concept that is derived from the person's membership in groups

1. Social Identity

2. Social Stratification

3. Socio Relational Context

4. Cultural Transmutation

5. Societal Factors

5. A membership group to which a person belongs out of choice, like a political party or service organization.

1. Voluntary Membership Group

2. Intercultural Willingness to Communicate

3. Socio Relational Context

4. Organizational Culture

5. Cultural Transmutation

6. Communication manner where the process of interaction is emphasized placing the burden of understanding on both the speaker and the listener. Relies heavily on nonverbal cues

1. Affective Style

2. Contextual Style

3. Direct Style

4. Elaborate Style

5. Exacting Style

7. Specific stimuli that refer to concepts that have no physical referent and exist in the mind of the user, such as "Liberty" or "Democracy."