By Jane Jackson
Introducing Language and Intercultural Communication is a full of life and obtainable advent for undergraduates who're new to the realm of intercultural communication.
Incorporating real-life examples from world wide and drawing on present study, this article argues opposed to cultural stereotyping and as a substitute offers scholars with a skill-building framework to reinforce knowing of the complexities of language and intercultural communique in various overseas settings. Readers will learn how to comprehend and notice strength family members, positioning and the influence of social and political forces on language selection and the intercultural communique strategy. this is often the fundamental textual content for undergraduate scholars learning classes in intercultural conversation for the 1st time.
Features include:
• transparent studying goals to constitution your research
• finish of bankruptcy dialogue
• inquiries to attempt your wisdom
• highlighted thesaurus phrases to supply a robust figuring out of the appropriate vocabulary
• an array of images together with symptoms which utilize non-verbal codes and plenty of examples that illustrate such concerns as intercultural misunderstandings and the results of tradition surprise
• great on-line assets for college students together with studying goals, steered readings, hyperlinks to media assets and real-world intercultural eventualities and actions.
Additional in-depth teacher assets function attempt fabrics, powerpoints, keywords, prolonged bankruptcy outlines and pattern assignments and syllabi.
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Nowadays, we are in more contact with people from other cultural backgrounds than at any time in human history. g. communication through telephones, telegraphs, the Internet) and the mass media are also facilitating the dissemination and exchange of information over significant distances. g. books, newspapers, magazines, recordings, radio, television, movies, the Internet) (Campbell et al. 2011). The mass media and rapid advances in digital communication technology have enabled more and more people to connect in virtual space.
Several models of culture shock and adjustment are reviewed and critiqued. The chapter concludes with suggestions to optimize intercultural transitions. g. interethnic, interfaith). g. romances, marriage) with individuals from another cultural and/or linguistic background. The chapter concludes with suggestions to enhance intercultural interpersonal relationships. Chapter 10 explores intercultural conflict. After identifying multiple domains and types of conflict, discussion focuses on variations in the way conflict 32 is viewed and managed.
The McDonaldization and Anglicization of the world). For some, the global domination of American culture is at the expense of traditional, localized 52 diversity. g. the local production and consumption of goods, local control of government, promotion of local culture and local identity) (O’Riordan 2001). g. cultural, economic, educational, linguistic, political, social, technological). For Sorrells (2013: 32), globalization is characterized by ‘a magnification of inequities based on flows of capital, labor, and access to education and technology, as well as the increasing power of multinational corporations and global financial institutions’.