Intercultural Communication

Name: Jinal B. ParmarRoll no.:11PG Enrolment No: PG13101025Paper no.: 12 English Language Teaching-1M. A. Semester: 3Year: 2014-15Submitted to: Department of English

Smt. S. B. GardiM. K. Bhavnagar University

Dt.4/10/2014

Types of Cultural Communication

Intercultural Communication

Multicultural Communication

Cross-Cultural Communication

Cross-cultural Communication

Intercultural communication

Multicultural communication

What is Intercultural Communication?

• Communication between different cultures

and social groups

• Its is a field of research regarding people’s

understanding across group boundaries of

various sorts

• e. g.- national, geographical, ethnic,

occupation, class or gender

• According to Claire Kramsch intercultural communication in second language acquisition is acquired through authentic and legitimate discourse in the target language.

Share the same language

National Culture

TESOL’s goal

Background

U. S. has been

traditionally related

Behavioral science

Professional business training

Psychology

Europe mostly

associated

Anthropology Language science

• “Culture is communication and communication is culture” (The Silent Language-Hall)

• The principles of intercultural communication developed by Hall

• He discussed the concept of “high-context communication” and “low-context communication” (The Hidden Dimensions)

Background

Major aspects of human interaction communication

The situation of communication

itself

Their non-verbal and paraverbal behavior

The way they structure their to meet their

communicative goals

The way members of

different groups realise various speech

acts

Management in intercultural communication

Get feedback from multiple

parties

Build relationship face to face

Improve listening and observation

skill

Use words, picture, gesture

Intercultural Communication

Immediate Communication

Verbal

Non-verbal

Gesture, facial expression, tone,

etc

Mediated Communication

Media

Film, TV, internet

Problems in Intercultural communication

• Problem in message transmission

• The message that the receiver interprets may be very different from what the speaker intended

• Unable to find understanding

• Urgent problems and conflict .

Conclusion

Intercultural communication will have to deal with shifting identities and cross-cultural networks rather than with

autonomous individuals located in stable and homogeneous national cultures

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