Intercultural Communication

Intercultural Communication

Intercultural communication is defined as situated communication between individuals or groups of different linguistic and cultural origins. This is derived from the following fundamental definitions: communication is the active relationship established between people through language, and intercultural means that this communicative relationship is between people of different cultures, where culture is the structured manifestation of human behavior in social life within specific national and local contexts, e.g. political, linguistic, economic, institutional, and professional. Intercultural communication is identified as both a concept and a competence. (Lanqua)

 Intercultural competence is the active possession by individuals of qualities which contribute to effective intercultural communication and can be defined in terms of three primary attributes: knowledge, skills and attitudes. In the context of this document, the acquisition of skills and human attributes likely to enhance intercultural communication is viewed exclusively as a component of language programmes, i.e. as an accompaniment to the practical acquisition of language itself.

Successful Nonverbal Intercultural Communication

 I concern most is non-verbal communication. It is a kind of language that people use to communicate, transfer information… This kind of language is as effectively as words-maybe even more effectively. We use it in daily life, almost instinctively, from beckoning to awaited, or punctuating a business presentation with visual signals to airport ground attendants guiding an airline pilot into the jetway or a parent using a whole dictionary of gestures to teach (or preach to) a child...From these things above, I found that non-verbal communication is indispensable way to communicate among people and people in the world. And each country has its non-verbal communication with their own meanings. So I make this study in order to understand much more about the differences between non-verbal of Viet Names and American, to know how people of two countries express their information, emotion,… through non-verbal language