Communication

Introduction1

Discussion1

Individual behavior2

Body movement2

Sound and writing3

Vocabulary & phraseology3

Grammer3

Interactive level4

Interaction sequences4

Turn taking4

Causes and solutions of miscommunication5

Debate of Michael Moore and Hannity6

Christian world versus Muslim world6

African Americans versus Caucasian Americans7

Conclusion8

Communication

Introduction

Intercultural communication has an impact because of the changes happening by internal and external factors. In this context, communication considered as one of the most key factor. Communication helps everyone to mingle with the society. Theorists are very much concerned about the process of communication among different cultures (Miric, 2006, pp. 79 - 84). These days communication and culture become interdependent on one another. This term is not new for the people who are from different cultures. It is a contextual, interpretive, transactional process in which the difference among people is large and significant enough to produce dissimilar expectations and interpretations.

Discussion

When people from different backgrounds and culture meet one another, there exists a misunderstanding. In order to understand such miscommunication, it is necessary to identify the causes by which they can occur. There are some differences that can happen between cultural and linguistic communities. For this, a model has constructed that consists of 3 points

Considering different behaviors of different communities.

Identify the influence on behaviors

Highlight the differences between cultural and linguistic communication that gets influenced by some factors.

Referring to the behaviors of communication, a difference has produced by an individual that needs to have interaction by several individuals.

There are two types of behavior according to this.

Individual behavior

Interactive behavior

Individual behavior

Individual level further show some important aspects which are:

Body movements

Sound and writing

Vocabulary and phraseology

Grammar

Body movement

When, a person is speaking, so their speech is continuously showing some facial expressions, gestures and other movements of the body. These show that what they are actually saying in different ways (Allwood,n.d., pp. 4-15). In different cultures, there is different meaning of every single thing a person is doing. Let's take a look on some examples.

Saying hello in USA means that you are waving with happiness and your hand are moving completely but if u do the same in England so that show a sign of “no”. Greece considers this sign as an insult (DeVito, 2002, pp. 136).

V is popular for the victory, but if u does this in England, so it is an insult that you are facing your palm. It is similar as raising the middle finger in USA (DeVito, 2002, pp. 136).

In most of the countries of Asia and US, hugs scarcely exchanged among people, but, in Southern Europe and latin, people do not hug each other so that shows unfriendliness (DeVito, 2002, pp. 136).

Sound and writing

Writing and sound is the most traditional difference between different communities. Different communities have different ways of writing something as they spell words differently; use different kinds of fonts and upper cases etc. considering a common word “organization”, in USA people use it like “organization” where as In UK people spell it like “organisation” (Allwood, n.d., pp. 4-15). These differences create a lot of misunderstandings.

Vocabulary & phraseology

People who know different languages are very much aware of the differences among different ...