a form of communication

that aims to share

information across
different cultures and
social groups

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
FIELD OF STUDY THAT LOOKS AT
HOW PEOPLE FROM DIFFERING
CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS
COMMUNICATE
HOW THEY ENDEAVOR TO
COMMUNICATE ACROSS CULTURES
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
AFTER READING THIS CHAPTER YOU
SHOULD BE ABLE TO:
1. SHOW THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND
CULTURE.
2. EXPLAIN HOW LANGUAGE
DISTINGUISHES MAN FROM
ANIMALS.
3. ENUMERATE THE
CHARACTERISTICS OF CULTURE.
4. IDENTIFY THE COMMUNICATION,
BEAHAVIORAL, COGNITIVE, AND
MATERIAL COMPONENTS OF
CULTURE.
5. UNDERSTAND AND EXPLAIN
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
Report by: Janice L. Gutierrez
LANGUAGE IS AN ABSTRACT
SYSTEM OF WORD MEANING AND
SYMBOLS FOR ALL ASPECTS OF
CULTURE. IT INCLUDES SPEECH,
WRITTEN CHARACTERS, NUMERALS,
SYMBOLS, AND GESTURES AND
EXPRESSIONS OF NON-VERBAL
COMMUNICATION.
COMMUNICATIONS AND LANGUAGE
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Paralanguage
COMMUNICATION
AND LANGUAGE
A MAN'S LANGUAGE IS A
REFLECTION OF THE
KIND OF PERSON HE IS,
THE LEVEL OF
EDUCATION HE HAS
ATTAINED, AND AN INDEX
TO THE BEHAVIOR THAT
MAY BE EXPECTED FROM
HIM
LANGUAGE
THE KEY FACTOR IN THE SUCCESS OF THE HUMAN RACE IN CREATING AND
PRESERVING CULTURE, FOR WITHOUT LANGUAGE THE ABILITY TO CONVEY
IDEAS AND TRADITIONS IS IMPOSSIBLE.
1
FOUR AREAS IN
THE STUDY OF
LANGUAGE
THESYSTEMOFSOUNDS
THATAPARTICULAR
LANGUAGEUSES
PHONOLOGY
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FOUR AREAS IN
THE STUDY OF
LANGUAGE
THESTUDYOFWORD
MEANINGSANDWORD
COMBINATIONS
SEMANTICS
3
FOUR AREAS IN
THE STUDY OF
LANGUAGE
DESCRIBESTHESTRUCTURE
OFALANGUAGEWHICH
CONSISTSOFTWOMAJOR
PARTS;MORPHOLOGYAND
SYNTAX
GRAMMAR
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FOUR AREAS IN
THE STUDY OF
LANGUAGE MORPHOLOGY
ISTHESTUDYOFTHE
LANGUAGE'SSMALLEST
UNITSOFMEANINGCALLED
GRAMMAR
3
FOUR AREAS IN
THE STUDY OF
LANGUAGE
MORPHEMES
PREFIXES,SUFFIXES,AND
ROOTWORDS
GRAMMAR
3
FOUR AREAS IN
THE STUDY OF
LANGUAGE
SYNTAX
SPECIFIESHOWWORDSARE
COMBINEDINTOSENTENCES
GRAMMAR
4
FOUR AREAS IN
THE STUDY OF
LANGUAGE CONSISTSOFRULESFOR
THEUSEOFAPPROPRIATE
LANGUAGEINPARTICULAR
CONTEXTS
PRAGMATICS