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Intercultural communication is a discipline that studies communication across different cultures and social groups, or how culture affects communication.It describes the wide range of communication processes and problems that naturally appear within an organization or social context made up of individuals from different religious, social, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.
Cultural homogenization is an aspect of cultural globalization, [ 1][ 2] listed as one of its main characteristics, [ 3] and refers to the reduction in cultural diversity [ 4] through the popularization and diffusion of a wide array of cultural symbols—not only physical objects but customs, ideas and values. [ 3]
Cultural communication is the practice and study of how different cultures communicate within their community by verbal and nonverbal means. [ 1] Cultural communication can also be referred to as intercultural communication and cross-cultural communication. Cultures are grouped together by a set of similar beliefs, values, traditions, and ...
Cultural competence. Cultural competence, also known as intercultural competence, is a range of cognitive, affective, behavioural, and linguistic skills [ 1][ 2] that lead to effective and appropriate communication with people of other cultures. [ 3][ 4][ 5] Intercultural or cross-cultural education are terms used for the training to achieve ...
Intercultural communication principles. Inter-cultural communication principles guide the process of exchanging meaningful and unambiguous information across cultural boundaries, that preserves mutual respect and minimises antagonism. Intercultural communication can be defined simply by the communication between people from two different ...
In anthropology, high-context culture and low-context culture are ends of a continuum of how explicit the messages exchanged in a culture are and how important the context is in communication. The distinction between cultures with high and low contexts is intended to draw attention to variations in both spoken and non-spoken forms of ...
Cross-cultural communication is a field of study investigating how people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate, in similar and different ways among themselves, and how they endeavor to communicate across cultures. Intercultural communication is a related field of study. [1] Cross-cultural deals with the comparison of different cultures.
The study of global communication is an interdisciplinary field focusing on global communication, or the ways that people connect, share, relate, and mobilize across geographic, political, economic, social, and cultural divides. Global communication implies a transfer of knowledge and ideas from centers of power to peripheries and the ...