Communication Between Cultures

sectarian and ethnic tensions. Renascent nationalism has exhibited itself as both a political instrument and an aspirational for ...

Denmark, France, and Germany. Since 2012, Russia has invoked emotional national- istic appeals in its domestic political pronoun ...

money or time, anyone in almost any place in the world can access the Internet for knowledge, entertainment, communi- cation, an ...

According to Achenbach, current IT venues, which include radio and television, permit people to inhabit a“‘filter bubble’that le ...

These qualifications deal with (1) the uniqueness of each individual, (2) the perils of generalizing, (3) the need for objectivi ...

Generalizing When people from other cultures declare that all Americans have tattoos, listen to hip-hop, and eat mostly fast foo ...

there might be exceptions, is that the culturally instilled behaviors in both are easily recognizable. You can see a somewhat co ...

As evidenced by the above, being objective is no simple assignment. For exam- ple, it is difficult, if not impossible, tosee and ...

We do, however, feel it important that in intercultural matters you view compro- mise as a positive course of action, rather tha ...

Preview of the Book To help you gain a degree of intercultural communication competence, we have orga- nized this book into elev ...

Nations will have to cooperate over humanitarian and legal issues, such as disease control, natural disaster relief, and transn ...

CHAPTER 2 Communication and Culture: The Voice and the Echo Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, i ...

you use but rather the idea that you are sharing part of yourself with another human being. Keating summarizes this concept of h ...

Communication Assists with Person Perception Not only does communication allow youto make human connections, but it also assists ...

Defining Human Communication In a class discussion on definitions of communication, a student once offered a very clever respons ...

Encoding is an internal activity. It occurs when the source creates a message through the selection of verbal or nonverbal symbo ...

Components of Human Communication Having defined communication and briefly explained its key ingredients, we now expand our anal ...

that stands for or represents something else. Although those symbols may be spontaneous and nonintentional (someone sneezes, and ...

Even the words we exchange are contextual. The simple phrase“How are you?”shifts meaning as you move from place to place and per ...

relate to each other. As suggested throughout this section, either consciously or unconsciously, you know the prevailing rules a ...