INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

1. Communication

   • Meaning production
   • Information transmition

2. Culture

   • Ways of lives
   • Interculturality
     • Material
     • Non-material
       • Interactions involving two or more cultures
   • Set of
     • Values
       • Shared by a group of people
     • Beliefs
     • Behaviors

3. Competence

   • understood as
     • Ability to effectively communicate in different cultural contexts.
   • Verbal processes
     • Accent
     • Cadence
     • Connotation
     • Context
     • Idiom
     • Style
     • Silence
     • Polite usage

4. Communication skills

   • Verbal
     • Such as
       • Message skills
         • i.e.
           • Language and feedback
           • Procedural aspects
       • Interaction management
   • Non-verbal
     • Such as
       • Kissing
       • Hugging
       • Handshaking
       • Eyes rolling
       • Bowing
     • Social skills
     • Behavioral flexibility

5. Multiculturality & multilingualism

   • Related to
     • Cultural awareness and understanding
     • Plural language management

6. Culture shock

   • Referred as
     • inability to adapt to a changing/new cultural setting

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