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Intercultural Communication

Maria Manjarres intercultural communication Otro Spanish

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Communication
- Is a symbolic and dynamic
  - receiver-oriented process
    - whereby
      - meaning is shared and negotiated
- Components
  - Sender/Receiver
    - Encoding
      - Message is creating
    - Decoding
      - Processing-interpretation
        of the message
  - Channel
    - Cannals
      - between
  - Feedback
    - someone's response
      - to a message
  - Noise
    - Background sounds
  - Context
    - where message occurs
    - It affects message
Culture
- Main meaning of
  - Cultivation
  - Tending
- Learned pattern of
  - perceptions
  - Values
  - behaviors
    - Shared by
      - a group of people
        which are
        heterogeneous
        ways of life
        dynamic
        always changing
- ''Culture provides the rules
  - for playing the game of life.''
    - Samovar, L. A., Porter, R. E., McDaniel, E. R., & Roy, C. S. (2014).
- Components
  - Culture is learned
    - Through interactions, observations, and imitation
      - the proper ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving
        are communicated to us.
    - It is also acquired from
      - art
      - folklore
      - history
      - religion
  - Culture Is Transmitted Intergenerationally
    - It is remembered
      - repeated by
  - Culture Is Symbolic
    - Words, gestures and images
      - are
        symbols used to convey meaning
  - Culture is Dynamic
    - It is never static
    - It is susceptibility
      - to
        innovation
        new ideas
  - Culture is ethnocentric
    - Ethnocentriscm
      - The tendency to view
        one's own culture
        as
        superior to other cultures
    - The strong sense of group identity
      - or attachment
        produced by culture
Globalization
- Term
  - Used to characterize
    - the increased
      - economic
        integration
        of national populations
        and ethnicities
      - social
- ''Globalization stands for the overlapping of global and local factors.''
  - (Robertson, 1997)
- Three stages in globalization
  - Political
  - Economic
    - spread of free-market capitalism
      - in virtually every country since 1980
  - Cultural globalization
Interculturality
- Intercultural communication is based on intercultural understanding.
  - Cultural predestination
    - Cultures influence each other
      - often there is a process of fusion
  - Individual values
    - an ethnic group
      - cannot be considered
        as a
        single unit
      - have
        different things in common
        different cultures
- Components
  - Perception
    - Process of
      - selecting, organising and evaluating stimuli
        is referred to as perception
  - Patterns of cognition
    - The influence of culture on cognitive
      - thinking patterns
        it includes
        Reasoning
        Approaches
        to problem solving
  - Verbal behaviors
    - Role of language
      - in intercultural communication
        in which
        people are able to
        share their beliefs and thoughts
- Nonverbal behaviors
  - Gestures, facial expressions
    - Nonverbal greeting behaviors show remarkable difference
      - across cultures
  - eye contact, posture, and movements
Communication skills
- Assertive behavior
- Conflict resolution
- Intercultural communication
Intercultural communication competence
- verbal communication competence
  - Linguistic
  - Socio-cultural pragmatic
  - Discourse
- nonverbal communication competence
  - Kinesic competence
  - Proxenic competences
  - Paralinguistic competence
- Is the ability to communicate effectively
  - and appropiately in various cultural contexts.

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Description: Otro intercultural communication Mind Map on Intercultural Communication, created by Maria Manjarres on 07/09/2021.
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