Unisa Assignment Intercultural Health Communication Assignment 2 Semester 2

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1 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION THE SIX DIALECTICS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION/RELATIONSHIPs THE CULTURAL –INDIVIDUAL DIALECTIC THE PERSONAL-CONTEXUAL DIALECTIC THE DIFFERENCES-SIMILARITIES DIALECTIC THE STATIC- DYNAMIC DIALECTIC THE HISTORY/PAST-PRESENT/FUTURE DIALECTIC THE PRIVILEGE –DISADVANTAGE DIALECTIC CULTURAL SPACE, CULTURAL IDENTITY AND CHANGING CULTURAL SPACE INTERCULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS AND THE SOCIAL, INTERPRETIVE AND CRITICAL APPROACHES TO INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND CONFLICTS THE SOCIAL SCIENCE APPROACH THE INTERPRETIVE APPROACH THE CRITICAL APPROACH Sources Consulted 2 INTRODUCTION Through intercultural communication we can learn a lot about other people and their cultures, and about ourselves and our own cultural background. We will also experience challenges and will seek out methods to resolving those challenges. In this assignment we will look at the six dialectics of intercultural communication and how they account for our intercultural relationships, we will then look at how cultural identity and cultural space are interlinked and how changing cultural space occurs and what it entail. Furthermore, this assignment will discuss the three approaches that are generally used to understanding intercultural relationships and communication. THE SIX DIALECTICS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION/RELATIONSHIPS There are to be found six dialectics that characterise intercultural communication. Namely they are the Cultural –Individual Dialectic, the Personal-Contexual Dialectic, the Differences-Similarities Dialectic, the Static- Dynamic Dialectic, the History/Past-Present/Future Dialectic and the Privilege – Disadvantage Dialectic. To begin with would be beneficial to define and understand what dialectic is. According to Martin and Nakayama (2007: 71) dialectic is a method of logic based on the principle that an idea generates its

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