This chapter discusses key concepts in intercultural communication including culture, communication, context, and power. Culture can be defined in multiple ways but includes learned patterns of group perceptions and behaviors. Communication is a process through which reality is constructed. Context refers to the physical and social settings influencing communication. Cultural values shape communication and conflict behaviors. Power also influences communication in subtle ways through dimensions like age, gender, and socioeconomic status.
This session will discussed the following areas:
1. Intercultural education
2. Intercultural Education
3. Communications and its forms
4. Language and different types of languages
5. Relationship of Language and Culture
Cross cultural communication refers to the communication between people who have differences in any one of the following: styles of working, age, nationality, ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Cross cultural communication can also refer to the attempts that are made to exchange, negotiate and mediate cultural differences by means of language, gestures and body language. It is how people belonging to different cultures communicate with each other.
This session will discussed the following areas:
1. Intercultural education
2. Intercultural Education
3. Communications and its forms
4. Language and different types of languages
5. Relationship of Language and Culture
Cross cultural communication refers to the communication between people who have differences in any one of the following: styles of working, age, nationality, ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Cross cultural communication can also refer to the attempts that are made to exchange, negotiate and mediate cultural differences by means of language, gestures and body language. It is how people belonging to different cultures communicate with each other.
Culture is a group phenomenon.
Cultures evolve from the interaction of a person with others, and a person’s belief or behavior becomes part of the culture when it is externalized and objectified.
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Culture is a learned system of thought and behavior that belongs to and typifies a relatively large group of people; it is the composite of their shared beliefs, values, and practices.
Understanding Culture
Culture is learned through communication
Through these processes, you acquire a set of shared perceptions and develop models for appropriate behavior
Worldview: the framework through which you interpret the world and the people in it
Much of your worldview is not obvious
Culture affects communication
As we learn culture through communication, we also use communication to express our culture
We frequently communicate our worldview when we present ourselves for strategic purposes
Worldview reflected by media
Intercultural Communication Matters
People from different cultures with different worldviews perceive the world quite differently
Intercultural Communication: communication between people from different cultures who have different worldviews
The answer to intercultural misunderstanding is not to hide under a rock or only associate with people like you
A Diverse Society
In order to function competently as a member of such a diverse society, you need to be able to communicate appropriately and effectively with a wide array of individuals
Two key parts: understanding your cultural expectations for communication and respecting those of others
Mobility
Must be ready to address cultural differences
6 in 10 adults have moved to a new community in their lives
More than 1 in 5 say the place they are living now is not “home”
You will, almost without exception, communicate at some time or another with people from outside your culture/hometown both face-to-face and through media
Mediated Interaction
We communicate electronically more and more each year
Internet and other technology allows us to connect with far-off family members and friends, plus individuals from around the country—or around the world.
Even Americans who don’t have access to these technologies, traditional media still makes exposure to different cultures possible
Diverse Organizations
Any job you take will involve some degree of intercultural communication
Being aware of the way that culture impacts communication is especially crucial to business communication across borders
Communication and Cultural Variations
Scholars have identified seven major communication variations across cultures:
High and Low context
Collectivist and Individualist orientations
Comfort with uncertainty
Masculine and Feminine orientations
Approaches to power distance
Time orientation
Value of emotional expression
These variations fall on a spectrum, they are not opposites
High and Low Context Cultures
Culture has a big impact on how direct we are in our use of language and how much we rely on other, nonverbal ways to communicate
High-context: use contextual cues—such as time, place, relationship, and situation—to both interpret meanin.
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2. CHAPTER OBJECTIVES:
1. Identify three approaches to culture
2. Define communication
3. Identify and describe nine cultural value orientations
4. Describe how cultural values influence communication
5. Understand how cultural values influence conflict behavior
6. Describe how communication can reinforce cultural beliefs
and behavior
7. Explain how culture can function as resistance to dominant
value systems
8. Explain relationship between communication and context
9. Describe characteristics of power
10. Describe relationship between communication and power
3. WHAT IS CULTURE?
Learned patterns of behavior and attitudes
shared by a group of people.
Considered the core concept in intercultural
communication
Defined in many ways from a pattern of
perceptions that influence communication to
a site of contestation and conflict.
How we think of culture frames our ideas and
perception
4. Scholar Wen Shu Lee
Identifies different common
uses of the term culture :
1. unique human efforts
2. Refinement , mannerism
3. Civilization
4. Shared language, beliefs, values
5. Dominant culture
6. The shifting tensions between the shared
and unshared
6. SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE:
( focused on the influence of culture on
communication, )
Culture is learned and shared
patterns of perception “programming of the
mind”
A social psychologist Geert Hofstede says that
culture becomes a collective experience
because it’s shared with people who live in
and experience the same environment.
The relationship between culture and
communication: culture influences
communication
7. CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE:
Heterogeneous, dynamic ( we have richness,
complexity)
Site of contested meanings ( critical scholars
suggest that the differences between U.S
Americans are often looked over)
EX: Tiger woods has multicultural identities
Relationship between culture and
communication is that communication
reshapes culture.
8. INTEPRETIVE PERSPECTIVE:
( focuses on contextual patterns of
communication behavior rather than on group-
related perceptions)
Learned and shared
Common example = ethnography of communication :
analyzing symbolic meaning of verbal and non-verbal
activities in attempt to understand patterns and rules of
communication
Contextual symbolic meanings (activity must have the
same symbolic meaning for everyone)
EX: Gathering around the coffee machine at work every
morning symbolizes the desire to interact with colleagues
Involves emotion
Relation between culture and communication would be
that culture influences communication and
communication reinforces culture.
9. WHAT IS COMMUNICATION?
A symbolic process whereby reality is
produced, maintained, repaired, and
transformed.
10. How Cultural Values Influence
Communication
(1950s study of contemporary Navaho and
descendants of Spanish colonists and European
Americans in the Southwest)
They emphasized …
Cultural values: the worldview of a cultural group
and its set of deeply held beliefs
They are the most deeply felt beliefs shared by a
cultural group, they reflect the shared perception of
what ought to be and not what is.
Example: Equality (shared by many, refers to belief
that all humans are created equal)
11. Cultural values influence
conflict behavior
Intercultural conflicts are often caused by
differences in value orientations.
To not have conflict members of cultural
groups must answer these questions…
What is human nature?
What is the relationship between humans and
nature?
What is the relationship between humans?
What is the preferred personality?
What is the orientation toward time?
12. These answers become a framework for
understanding broad differences in values
among various cultural groups.
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13. Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck
Value Orientations
According to these men, there are three
possible responses to each question as
they relate to shared values. They believe
that although all responses are possible in
all societies, each society has one, or
possibly two, preferred responses to each
question that reflect the predominant
values of that society.
Ex. : Religious beliefs may reinforce certain
cultural values.
14. Relationship Between
Communication and Context
Context typically is created by the physical or
social aspects of the situation in which
communication occurs.
Ex.: Communication may occur in a
classroom, a bar, or a church. In each case,
the physical characteristic of the setting
influence the communication.
Context is neither static nor objective, it can
be multilayered and consist of the social,
political, and historical structures in which the
communication occurs.
15. Hofstede Value Orientation
(Based on extensive cross cultural study of personel working in
IBM subsidiaries in 53 countries)
Examine value differences among
national societies identifying 5 areas of
common problems
16. 1. Individualism vs. Collectivism
Although problems were shared by different
cultural groups, solutions varied from culture
to culture.
17. 2. Power Distance
Refers to the extent to which less powerful
members of institutions and organizations
within a country expect and accept the
unequal distribution of power.
Ex.: Denmark, Israel, and New Zealand value
small power distance because they believe
that less hierarchy is better and that power
should be used only for legitimate purposes.
The best corporate leaders in those countries
are those who minimize power distances.
Mexico, India, and the Philippines values high
power distance
18. 3. Femininity vs. Masculinity
Two dimensional
Gender specific roles of value
The degree to which cultural groups value so
called masculine values(achievement, ambition,
acquisition of material goods) or so called
feminine values (quality of life, service to others,
nurturance, and support for the unfortunate)
IBM employees in Japan, Austria, and
Mexico=high masculine value
Employees in Northern Europe rank higher in
feminine value orientation
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19. 4. Uncertainty Avoidance
Concerns the degree to which people who
feel threatened by ambiguous situations
respond by avoiding them or trying to
establish more structure to compensate for
the uncertainty.
Great Britain, Sweden, Hong Kong, and US =
prefers to limit rules, accept dissent, and take
risks.(weak)
Greece, Portugal, and Japan= prefer more
extensive rules and regulations in
organizational settings and seek consensus
about goals.(high)
20. 5. Long Term vs. Short Term
Orientation
This reflects a society’s search for virtue or
truth
Short term= concern with possessing truth
(western religions of Judaism, Christianity, and
Islam) Focus on quick results in endeavors and
recognize social pressure to conform.
Long term= tend to respect the demands of
virtue( Eastern religions such as Confucianism,
Hinduism, and Shintoism) Focus more on thrift,
perseverance and tenacity in whatever they
attempt and to be willing to subordinate
themselves to a larger purpose.
21. Limitations of Value
Frameworks
Remember that cultures are dynamic and
heterogeneous. We shouldn’t reduce
individuals to mere stereotypes based on
these value orientations.
Another limitation of value framework is
that they tend to “essentialize” people
and assume that a particular group
characteristic is the essential
characteristic of a given member at all
times and in all context.
22. Relationship between
Communication and Power
Power is universal in communication interactions, although it is
not always evident or obvious how power influences
communication or what kinds of meaning are constructed. We
often think of communication between individuals as being
between equals, but this is rarely the case.
2 levels of group related power
1.Primary dimensions (age, ethnicity, gender, physical
abilities, race, and sexual orientation)*more permanent
2.Educational background, geographical location, marital
status, and socioeconomic status.* changeable
Example: Communication style in college classrooms
emphasizes public speaking and competition (first person who
raises his/her hand gets to speak)
Pg. 111
23. SUMMARY
THE 4 BUILDING BLOCKS TO UNDERSTANDING
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION :
COMMUNICATION,CONTEXT AND POWER.
CULTURE CAN BE VIEWED AS :
1.Learned patterns of group related perceptions
2.Contextual symbolic patterns of meaning, involving
emotions
3. heterogeneous, dynamic
• Communication = process whereby reality is
produced, maintained and transformed
• Can be viewed as components of a speaker,
sender, receiver, message and channel and
variable
24. Cont.
The relationship between culture and
communications is complex :
Culture is influences communication and is enacted
and reinforced through communication.
Communication can be a way of contesting and
resisting dominant culture
Context influences communication: It is the
physical and social setting in which
communication occurs or the larger political,
social and historical environment
Power is pervasive and plays an enormous, often
hidden role in intercultural interactions.
25. Works Cited
Martin, J.N., and T. K. Nakayama.
Intercultural communication in contexts.
5. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010. pp 83-119.
Print.