Elements of communication
• Context (location, time, light, temperature, seating arrangements)
• Participants (relationship, gender, culture) • Messages (meanings, symbols, encoding
• Samovar & Porter
Intercultural communication is communication between people whose cultural perceptions and symbol systems are distinct enough to alter the communication event.
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Channel (message)
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Interactive Model of Communication
decoding
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• Human beings draw close to one another by their common nature, but habits and customs keep them apart. ---- Confucian saying
• One man’s meat is another man’s poison. ---- English proverb
• Intercultural communication the penetration by a member of one culture into another culture (practical