This document discusses intercultural communication and cultural competence. It defines an intercultural speaker as someone who possesses knowledge of both their home and target cultures. An essentialist view sees cultures as fixed, while a third way view sees intercultural speakers as developing their own perspective between cultures. The author had cancer surgery that affected his voice, requiring changes to his teaching. Cultures are described as messy and never fixed, depending on various factors. Cultural competence involves listening, reflecting, and observing what people do beyond just what they say. A community of purpose is a group with shared interests that helps members by listening, sharing experiences, and reflecting.

1. LAURENCE RAW
(Baskent University)

2. INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
“TELL THEM
WHAT YOU THINK
IS
CHARACTERISTIC
OF THE FOREIGN
CULTURE” (Saadet
Bozkurt)

3. INTERCULTURAL SPEAKER
“ONE WHO
POSSESSES
KNOWLEDGE OF
SOCIAL GROUPS
AND PRACTICES IN
BOTH THE HOME
AND TARGET
CULTURES”
(MICHAEL BYRAM, U.
of DURHAM, UK)

4. INTERCULTURALITY FOR BUSINESS
“the intercultural
speaker is the person
who has managed to
develop his or her own
third way, in between
the other cultures he or
she is familiar with”
(Julianne House, U. of
Hamburg, Germany)

5. ESSENTIALIST VIEW OF CULTURE

6. THIRD WAY AS MEDIATING BETWEEN
CULTURES

7. CULTURAL MELTDOWN
OCT 2013: LAURENCE HAS
CANCER OPERATION THAT
PERMANENTLY AFFECTS
HIS VOICE. HE CANNOT
SHOUT AS HE ONCE DID
AND HAS TO COMPLETELY
RETHINK THE WAY HE
ACTS IN THE CLASSROOM

8. MESSY CULTURES
CULTURAL BEHAVIOR IS
NEVER FIXED, NEVER
CONTROLLABLE. IT
DEPENDS ON TIME,
SPACE, GENDER, RACE,
CLASS AND PLACE

9. LISTENING
CULTURAL COMPETENCE DEPENDS
NOT JUST ON SPEAKING AND
UNDERSTANDING BUT LISTENING
NOT JUST TO WHAT PEOPLE SAY
BUT WHAT THEY ACTUALLY MEAN

10. REFLECTING
CULTURAL COMPETENCE
DEPENDS ON THINKING AND
REFLECTING ON PRESENT
INTERACTIONS IN TERMS OF
PAST AND FUTURE.

11. OBSERVING
LOOK AT WHAT PEOPLE DO
WHEN THEY SPEAK. LOOK AT
THEIR EYES, FACES,
GESTURES.

12. COMMUNITY
• Observing
• Listening
• Reflecting

13. COMMUNITY OF PURPOSE
A community of purpose is a group of
people with shared interests in a topic,
culture or idea. Members of the
community assist each other by
LISTENING, then SHARING experiences,
REFLECTING on strategies and
EXCHANGING information on the
process in hand.