Intercultural Communication

Intercultural Communication

1. Context

   • Factors affecting the actual interpretation of signs and expressions
   • 1. Context as Declarative and Procedural Knowledge
     • Contextualism
     • Literalism
   • 2. Externalist and Internalist Perspective on Context
     • meaning of words understandable only in the context
     • Context: selector of lexical features
   • 3. Interplay of Prior and Actual Situational Context
     • Individual and social factors of communication
     • lexical items encode the history of their use
     • Words encode the experience of the individuals
   • 4. The Dynamic Model of Meaning (DMM) and Context
     • context = prior and present experience with the world
     • explain the meaning values of words and bigger lexical units
   • 5. Context in Intercultural Communication
     • 2 issues
       • Bach's thoughts about actual situational constrains
       • Role of semantic analyzability in intercultural interactions

2. Common Ground

   • 1. What is Common Ground (CG)?
     • Common knowledge between two interlocutors which makes posible the understanding
   • 2. Current Approaches to Common Ground
     • Pragmatic view
     • cognitive view
   • 3. Common Ground in the Socio-cognitive Approach
     • explain why prior context and inherent salience play a part in the communicative behaviour of the interlocutors
   • 4. Common Ground in Intercultural Interactions

3. Salience

   • 1. Salience in the Graded Salience Hypothesis (GSH) and the Socio-cognitive Approach
     • GSH focuses on linguistic salience and deals with lexical processing
     • SCA focuses on production and comprehension
       • lexical and perceptual salience
     • three types of salience
       • inherent salience
       • collective salience
       • emergent situational salience
   • 2. Utterance Generation in SCA
     • perceptual, conceptual and linguistic processes
   • 3. Salience in Language Processing
   • 4. Salience in Culture Specific
     • inherent salience based on