Intercultural Communication COM 201D2 (Summer Session 2026)  LEARNING ACTIVITY  CHAPTER NINE  OBJECTIVE: You will be introduced to rhetoric and culture and how culture relates to persuasive writing and speaking

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Department of English, History, and Interdisciplinary Studies

Intercultural Communication

COM 201D2 (Summer Session 2026)

 LEARNING ACTIVITY

 CHAPTER NINE

 OBJECTIVE: You will be introduced to rhetoric and culture and how culture relates to persuasive writing and speaking.

 1.       What is Rhetorical Action?

2.      Define the following key concepts:

a.       Vernacular Discourse

b.      Dialectic

c.       Paralanguage

d.      Intercultural Rhetoric

e.      Mutual intelligibility

3.      Identify four of the seven steps for analysis of intercultural rhetoric.

4.      Name one Specific Rhetorical Chinese Tradition.

5.      Name one Specific Rhetorical African American Tradition.

6.      Name one Specific Rhetorical Latino Tradition.