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.

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.

Re-Tweet Count Matters: Social Influences on Sharing of Disaster-Related Tweets

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huaye Li ◽  
Yasuaki Sakamoto
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Social Influences ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Great East Japan Earthquake ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Emergency Responders ◽  
Related Information ◽  
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AbstractCommunication during and after disasters increasingly relies on social media technologies. For example, victims, emergency responders, and others took to Twitter to share information about conditions, aid, resources and the like in the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. The current paper concerns how a re-tweet count, or the number of others who have already forwarded a message, influences people’s spreading of disaster-related tweets. The results of a human-subjects experiment revealed that, when the re-tweet count of a tweet increased, the likelihood that people would share the tweet increased when it came from an individual’s account, but the likelihood decreased when it came from a news agency’s account. These social influences disappeared when the re-tweet counts were over 1000 people. These findings extend the understanding of how disaster-related information spreads on social media, which is essential for improving social media during disaster management.

Methods for Intercultural Communication Research

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Oetzel ◽  
Saumya Pant ◽  
Nagesh Rao
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Research Training ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Interpretive Methods ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Patterns Of Interaction ◽  
Critical Methods ◽  
Qualitative Data Collection

Research on intercultural communication is conducted using primarily three different methodological approaches: social scientific, interpretive, and critical. Each of these approaches reflects different philosophical assumptions about the world and how we come to know it. Social scientific methods often involve quantitative data collection and research approaches such as surveys and experiments. From this perspective, intercultural communication is seen as patterns of interaction, and we seek to explain and understand these patterns through clear measurement and identification of key independent variables. Interpretive methods often involve qualitative data collection and research approaches such as interviews and ethnographic observation. From this perspective, intercultural communication and meaning is created through interaction, and we seek to understand these meanings by exploring the perspectives of people who participate as members of cultural communities. Critical methods often involve qualitative data collection and research approaches such as interviews and textual critique. From this perspective, intercultural communication involves inequalities that can be attributed to power and distortions created from (mis)use of this power. Critical scholars seek to unmask domination and inequality. Most scholars utilize one of these primary approaches given the consistency with their world views, theories, and research training. However, there are creative possibilities for combining these approaches that have potential for fuller understanding of 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.

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