Salient Features of India constitution especially power and functions
Intercultural communication endversion
1. EDWARD T. HALL
Intercultural Communication
Indrani Krishnamoorthy, Nicole Hecker-Michel, Maria Loktionova, Henri Juntunen, Alex Nguyen, Nataliya Shchepina.
3. Agenda
• Brief on Edward T. Hall
• Context
• Time
• Space
• Personal Experiences
• Role as an international manager
• Summary
• Video on Intercultural Misunderstanding
4. Edward Twitchell Hall, Jr.
• 1914 – 2009 in Missouri (US)
• Ph.D. in 1942 in Columbia University
• Anthropologist
• Founding father of Intercultural Communication
• High and low context cultural factors, time and space
orientation
5. High context
• Adopted for a stable environment where culture is being
developed overtime
• Much nonverbal communication (Physical context)
• No drastic changes in the people
• Contextual elements unterstand the rules
• Understand the unwritten rules, instead is confusing
• Rely on their history, status, relationship.
6. Low context
• Applicable for a mobile environment where people come
and go
• More explanation is needed
• Less a chance of misunderstandings
• More focus on verbal communication than body language
7. Time
Time as
Structure
Monochronic
Polychronic
Time as
Communication
Appointments,
advance time
Speed of
actions
8. Time as Structure
Monochronic Time Polychronic Time
Linear Cyclical
Segmented Simultaneous events
Start-end / poin to point Completing events
Serial Parallel
9. Time as communication
• Rhythm and speed, time needed for making decisions
• Action transmits information in different speeds
Fast Messages e.g. Prose, Headlines, TV Commercial,
Ideologies
Slow Messages e.g. Poetry, Books, TV documentary,
Print, Culture
10. Space
The study called Proxemics
concerning about space: personal body space, space in the
office, parking space, home.
The need for space: some people need more space, who
trespass is seen as a threat.
High territoriality: some people are more territorial than
others
Low territoriality: lower territoriality, less ownership of
space; boudaries are less important.
11. Distances
• Intimate distance (0 - 0,60 m) of wrestling,
comforting and protecting
• Personal distance (0,60 – 1,20 m) is keeping someone at
”arms’ lenght”
• Social distance (1,20 – 3,70 m): used in business
transaction, meeting new people
• Public distance ( > 3,70 m) is well outside the circle
of personal involvement
13. Role as an International Manager
• Being on time for meetings
• Giving the personal space
• Being cautious when offering an individual something to
eat
• Being aware of the hand gestures used on an individual
• Offering welcome gifts
14. Summary
• Important to understand the various culture
• Act according to the culture’s aspects
• Not to offend the people we are dealing with
• Keeping the distance according to the different culture
• According to the different time orientations
• Speed of actions
