Cross cultural understanding: a handbook to understand others’ cultures

cognitive dissonance
- conflicting understanding or feelings - 
cognition is understanding things through thought; dissonance is 
disharmony or conflict. This is a widely used term in psychology 
and the effect arises very commonly in relationships and 
communications. Conflicting body language signals can 
sometimes indicate this attitude or reaction in a person. 
compliance
- submissive behaviour, hence compliance signals or 
signs, which indicate this. 
communication
- the exchange of meaning 
community - 
a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the 
same region and interacting with each other 
context - t
he surroundings, circumstances, environment, 
background, or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the 
meaning of an event or other occurrence. the surroundings, 
circumstances, environment, background, or settings that 
determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other 
occurrence.