Theories of Culture and Communication

This article examines and compares three perspectives on culture, communication, and the relationship between culture and communication: traditional (neo positivist), coordinated management of meaning, and ethnography of communication. The concepts of culture and communication are discussed for each perspective in regards to their form. function. and locus. The three perspectives view the relationship between culture and communication as synecdoche, irony, and metaphor, respectively. Implications for research and theory on acculturation are discussed for each perspective.