Intercultural Communication Styles

2016 ◽  
pp. 144-156
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Communication Styles

Internal e-mail communication in the workplace: Is there an “East-West divide”?

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annelise Ly
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Role Enactment ◽  
Internal Work ◽  
Business Units ◽  
E Mail ◽  
East West ◽  
The Way

AbstractWesterners are often depicted in intercultural communication literature as direct and Asians indirect when they communicate. If their communication styles are so different, however, how can they understand each other and collaborate in the workplace? The present article looks at internal e-mail communication in the workplace. More specifically, the aim of this article is twofold: first, to analyze the way Western employees formulate three different speech acts (request, criticism, and disagreement) when writing internal work e-mails to their Asian colleagues, and second, to examine the way these e-mails are perceived by the Asian employees in terms of politeness, friendliness, and clarity. The data consists of 182 elicited e-mails produced by Western employees using role enactment and 33 perception questionnaires collected in different Asian business units of an international company. The procedure to analyze the elicited e-mails is inspired by the CCSARP while the questionnaires are analyzed following sociolinguistics studies. Last, the discussion of the results is anchored partly in the ongoing East-West politeness debate.

scholarly journals Intercultural Communication: Social attributes, Promoting Components, Impacts and Challenges

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 40-44
Author(s):  
Rahul Kumar Satuna
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Patterns Of Interaction ◽  
Share Information

In the multifaceted and interconnected global civilization of today, each of us is shaped by many factors. Culture is one of the most influential factors that is profoundly inbuilt in our values and communication styles; and when it comes to share information among people with different surroundings, a lot of aspects come across. The sort of communication known as Intercultural communication primarily deals with understanding the patterns of interaction between cross cultures peoples/groups. The current paper discusses culture, intercultural communication along with four perspectives.  The discussed four perspectives are (1) social attribute participating intercultural communication, (2) promoting components of intercultural communication, (3) impacts of intercultural communication, and (4) challenges with intercultural communication.

Queer Intercultural Communication

Communication ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shinsuke Eguchi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Body ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Queer Of Color Critique ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Asian Pacific

Intercultural communication, originating in the United States, has extensively focused on differences of communication styles, processes, and problems between sociocultural groups for a long time. This course of study reproduces and reconstitutes a nationalistic binary paradigm of US Americans versus others. It generalizes cultural differences of communication. The assumption of styles in the United States re-centers and re-secures white, cismale, heterosexual, and affluent. At the same time, the conception and operation of others are generally non-US American, cismale, heterosexual, and affluent. In so doing, the field of intercultural communication tends to ignore, erase, and/or marginalize differences such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, and the body. US domestic racial minorities such as African Americans, Arab and Middle Eastern Americans, Asian Pacific Islander Americans, Latinx Americans, and Native Americans are often overlooked, for example. In order to counter this erasure, intersecting genealogies of queer of color critique, global queer studies, transgender studies, and disability studies largely influence the current state of queer intercultural communication.

scholarly journals Intercultural Communication in the Perspective of Gender

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Aridah Aridah
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Linguistic Strategies ◽  
Conceptual Study ◽  
Different Cultures

Intercultural communication is usually viewed as the communication which takes place between two or more people from different cultural backgrounds. These different cultural backgrounds are commonly understood as different languages and nationalities. However, intercultural communication is not limited to these backgrounds. It can also be viewed as communication across gender. This article aims to provide a conceptual study which reviews some ideas regarding intercultural communication in the view of gender. It discusses the ideas proposed by some scholars in communications concerning how men and women communicate differently because they are considered members of different cultures, that is, the culture of men and the culture of women. The discussion focuses on the differences between men and women in terms of communication styles, communication attitudes, and linguistic strategies. Some potential misunderstandings which occur between men and women are also presented as a result of those differences.

It Is Certainly a Different Manner!

2020 ◽  
pp. 68-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norhayati Zakaria ◽  
Shafiz Affendi Mohd Yusof ◽  
Nursakirah Ab Rahman Muton
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Virtual Team ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Indirect Communication ◽  
Virtual Collaboration ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Verbal Responses ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
High Level

The present study seeks to understand intercultural communication patterns, characteristics, and styles of team members that engage in virtual collaboration with people from diverse backgrounds known as global virtual team (GVT). Twenty respondents were interviewed in order to develop a rich understanding of the intercultural communication and styles within a GVT, based on Edward Hall's cultural dimensions. The results reveal that GVT members from high context cultures demonstrate indirect communication styles, use non-verbal approaches, and employ silence and polite gestures in certain situations, while low context GVT members are more prone to direct and straightforward communication styles with many verbal responses in online team discussion. In essence, the findings provide key implication to global managers: be prepared to work with cultural diversity in terms of being open-minded, develop a high level of tolerance, and become culturally sensitive to different approaches and preferences of communication styles as employed by team members when working at a distance.

scholarly journals Intercultural Communications and Conductive Hearing Loss

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 96-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damien Howard
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Conductive Hearing Loss ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Intercultural Communications ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Conductive Hearing ◽  
First World

Widespread conductive hearing loss among Aboriginal peoples in first world nations has a significant, although largely invisible impact on intercultural communication. Poor acoustics and cultural differences in communication styles compound the effect of widespread hearing loss among Aboriginal peoples. This article considers Australian research that has investigated how conductive hearing loss can impact on intercultural communication in schools and in the criminal justice system, as well as communication processes within Aboriginal families. An understanding of these issues can facilitate the development of innovative interventions that can help address Aboriginal disadvantage, especially within mainstream institutions.

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