Intercultural Communication 1st term recap

Intercultural Communication 1st term recap

1. What is communication?

   • view as a process
     • the voice & the echo
   • series of meaningful interactions
     • Symbolic and dynamic
     • Use of verbal and non verbal messages
   • Make meaning
     • how are perceived and understand
   • It has components
     • Source, encoding, message, channel, receiver, decoding receiver responde, noise, feedback

2. What is culture?

   • Williams, R. (2015/1976). Culture. Keywords: A vocabulary of culture and society (pp. 49-54). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
     • 2 concepts
       • Means of physical communication
         • roads, ships, airplanes, letters, etc.
       • Media of symbolic communication
         • sings, images, technology, language
   • Ways of life/ dailylife
     • Culture is the set of rules, values, beliefs, and behaviors that is characteristic of a social group.

3. What is intercultural communication?

   • communication across different cultural boundaries.
     • two or more people with different cultural backgrounds interact and communicate with each other
       • language is constructed by people
     • people with different cultural backgrounds
       • different cultural communities negotiate shared meaning in interactions
   • culture influences communication
     • human behavior.
       • pattern of behaviors within cultural groups

4. Undestanding interculturality and communication

   • communication is inescapable
     • When people communicate they are trying to
       • 1. persuade 2. inform 3.entertain
     • management of messages
       • objective of creating meaning
     • Intentionality and Interaction
   • Globalization
     • brought profound changes
     • interconectivity
     • cultural awareness
     • world community

5. Non-verbal & verbal communication

   • verbal
     • words
       • verbal messages
         • meaning is cocreated
     • language skills
       • interpretation of other people's messages
       • construct meaning
   • non verbal
     • Body language
       • intentional communication
     • complement verbal messages
       • guides communication
     • we can know more about our culture through it
     • some aspects
       • Chronemics, paralanguage, silence, haptics, clothing olfatics, territoriality,

6. Obstacles in communication

   • stereotyping
   • language barriers
   • cultural shock
   • conflicting behaviours and values
   • ethnocentrism
   • prejudice

7. Interculturality and multilingualism

   • Diversity
     • Understanding
       • integration
         • sharing
   • Identities markers
     • age, gender, religion, social class, race, physical appereance
   • cultures
     • recognition of many cultures in the world
       • equitable interaction
         • dialogue and respect
           • openness and tolerance
       • new cultural forms and perceptions

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