Understanding intercultural communication

Abstract

A revolution in thinking about human communication has occurred over the last decade or so. No longer is it taken for granted that communication has occurred simply because messages have been sent and/or received. While messages are an essential component of communication activity they are only a means to an end. That end is the process of sharing meanings among or between people. Communication is now thought of as the sharing of meanings. Thus, communication is seen as a two-way process involving a dialogue, an exchange or a transaction between people. The process involves feedback and negotiation of meaning and has the intent of building and sharing meanings. There is a strong emphasis upon mutuality, involvement and context-dependence. This chapter focuses upon one particular type of such intercultural communication.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 42 citations exist upstream.