Com2603 Assignment 1

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 DIALECTICS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION 1 1.1 Cultural Individual Dialectic 1 1.2 Personal Contextual dialectic 1 1.3 Differences Similarities dialectic 1 1.4 Static Dynamic Dialectic 1 1.5 History/Past-Present dialectic 2 1.6 Privileged Disadvantaged dialectic 2 2 CULTURAL SPACE 3 - 4 3 INTERCULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS 5 3.1 Social science approach 5 3.2 Interpretive approach 5 3.3 Critical approach 6 SOURCES CONSULTED 7 ADDENDUM A: SELF-ASSESSMENT AND SELF-REFLECTION 8 Question 1 Intercultural communication is communication between people of different cultures. As the world becomes smaller, people of different countries come into contact more and more often. It is the sending of messages across languages and cultures. It is also a negotiated understanding of meaning in human experiences across social systems and societies. When we talk of other cultures, we mean not only those who speak a language that is different from ours or who live in a different country or region; we also mean those who live in the same city or region but do not share the same social groups. Because of the dynamic nature of intercultural communication, the following dialectical approaches are emphasised. These approaches emphasise the procesccual, relational and contradictory nature of intercultural communication. Cultural individual dialectic recognises that a person may have some behaviour not shared by anyone else, perhaps a unique way of wrinkling your nose or a unique way of using language. However, you may also share communication patterns with those who have shaped you (family) and with whom you share other cultural practices. It also recognises that a person may sometimes be in opposition to his or her own culture because personal desires are
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