Chapter #6: Language and Intercultural Communication

Chapter #6: Language and Intercultural Communication

1. Code Switching

   • It refers to a technical term of communication that talks about the phenomenon of changing not only the language in which we are speaking but also the dialect and even the accent.
   • This phenomenon helps us create comfort among people. As mentioned in the book examples, there are many places that can be find people who speak English and Spanish, and the moment a person who does not speak Spanish or does not speak very well, so in the way that that person can feel comfortable, everyone should speak in English.
     • It helps us to integrate everyone in the conversation, so that nobody feels excluded, or think things that are not.

2. Language politics and policies

   • Laws or customs that determine when and where which language will be spoken
   • Language policies can help resolve or exacerbate these tensions.
     • Sometimes are meant to encourage assimilation into a language and national identity.
     • Sometimes are meant to provide protection to minority languages.
     • Sometimes regulate language use in different parts of a nation.
   • We can view the development of language policies as reflecting the dialectical tensions between the nation’s history and its future, between the various language communities, and between economic and political relations inside and outside the nation.

3. Language and globalization

   • Lingua Franca
     • A commonly shared language that is used as a medium of communication between people of different languages.
     • The dominance of English as the lingua franca raises important issues for intercultural communication.
       • English has become more important world- wide but also has created other intercultural communication confl icts.
   • Sadomasochism
     • "I speak and learn your language and you speak and learn mine."
     • "the derivation of sexual gratification from the infliction of physical pain or humiliation either on another person or on oneself "

4. Internet Resources

   • There are different online pages where we can find many things, no only about the language but also about it's culture, the semiotics and translators.
     • http://anthro.palomar.edu/language/default.htm This web site it's about the relationship between languages and culture.
     • http://babelfi sh.altavista.digital.com/translate.dyn This is a translator web page which translates from a great number of languages to a great number of languages.

5. Sharon Yoletty González López

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