Summary Intercultural Communication - Concept List

Cross cultural communication

Antwoord: Compares the attitudes and communicative behaviors of service works from different cultural backgrounds and understands culture as identical to nation.

Discourse (Hall)

Antwoord: forms of constructing knowledge about a particular topic. Discourse creates the topic, defines it and produces it.

Discourse (Shi-xu)

Antwoord: situated way of speaking of and acting upon reality that are thoroughly reality constitutive. Additionally, discourse is not only about language but also practice. Discourses produce meanings and these meanings are applied to everyday practice, they help shape lived culture.

Intercultural communication

Antwoord: studies shopkeepers and customers from different cultural backgrounds in interaction and sees culture as similar to ethnicity and race.

Inter-discourse communication

Antwoord: investigates how other people are talked about. In this study cultural belonging is discursively constructed and culture is a product of the text instead of a social variable.

Essentialist view to communication

Antwoord: or the entity view, sees culture as something people have or something they belong to.

Constructionist view to communication

Antwoord: or the process view, sees culture as something people perform.

Multiculturalism

Antwoord: acknowledges different cultures and their differences and sees them as a form of diversity.

Cline

Antwoord: A continuum with an infinite number of gradations from one extreme to the other.

Identity politics

Antwoord: focuses on the liberation of a marginalized constituency whose members do not rally around a particular ideology or party affiliation but around demands for the recognition of their cultural distinctiveness.