Interculture Communication A Practical Guide

Successfully communicating with people from another culture requires learning more than just their language. While fumbling a word or phrase may cause embarrassment, breaking the unspoken cultural rules that govern personal interactions can spell disaster for businesspeople, travelers, and indeed anyone who communicates across cultural boundaries

Interculture Communication A Practical Guide

Tracy Novinger

University of Texas Press

2001

Abstract

Successfully communicating with people from another culture requires learning more than just their language. While fumbling a word or phrase may cause embarrassment, breaking the unspoken cultural rules that govern personal interactions can spell disaster for businesspeople, travelers, and indeed anyone who communicates across cultural boundaries. To help you avoid such damaging gaffes, Tracy Novinger has compiled this authoritative, practical guide for deciphering and following "the rules" that govern cultures, demonstrating how these rules apply to the communication issues that exist between the United States and Mexico.

Contents:

• The Global Perspective of Intercultural Communication
• Why Communicate across Culture?
• What Constitutes a Culture?
• Obstacles of Perception
• Obstacles in Verbal Processess
• Obstacles in Nonverbal Processess
• The Mexico – United States Cultural Environment
• Some Mexico – United States Cultural Issues
• Day – to – Day Cultural Interaction
• Conclusion
• Transcending Culture

Citation

Interculture Communication A Practical Guide. University of Texas Press, 2001.

Collection

Ngành NGÔN NGỮ ANH (7220201)

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