BARRIERS TO INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Barriers to intercultural communication

Barriers to intercultural Communication

Situation

A Jewish Passover Seder the Day of the dead family picnic in a Mexican graveyard or a formal Japanese tea ceremony in Kyoto.

Discussion

Communication intercultural is a discipline that aims to study how people from different cultural backgrounds communicate with each other. It is also responsible for producing some guidelines that allow intercultural communication.

There are barriers caused by semantics: words mean different things to different people. This is particularly true for people with different national cultures. There are barriers caused by the connotations of the word: the words mean ...