DQ 1: How is it possible that individuals speaking the same language may confront cultural barriers to communication?…
Culture can also affect communication in many ways. One person can be part of many different cultures. Beliefs and experiences within groups of diverse cultures will change the way a speaker must attempt to get points across to listeners. In each culture, words and action may all be interpreted differently. Miscommunications are something that nobody wants to experience during any type of communicating. A sender’s words cannot communicate the desired meaning if the receiver has not had some experience with the objects or concepts the words describe. This is what could happen if proper steps are not taken into consideration before speaking to diverse crowds.…
Culture as it is defined by (Henslin, 2010) encompasses all that we are culturally, ethnically, and linguistically—“the language, beliefs, values, norms, behaviors, and even material objects that characterizes a group and are passed from one generation to the next.” However, we are not so totally encapsulated culturally that we cannot reach beyond the familiar and dare to explore and appreciated the “minor differences” of others.…
Explain How People From Different Backgrounds May Use and/or Interpret Communication Methods in Different Ways…
You spent the past few days exploring the resources available to students at University of Phoenix, and you want to share what you learned with a friend who is interested in enrolling.…
To facilitate communication between cultures, it is important to understand that different groups have different values, different ways of communicating, different customs and assumptions. So, while these may conflict with…
You spent the past few days exploring the resources available to students at University of Phoenix, and you want to share what you learned with a friend who is interested in enrolling.…
I feel that maybe if the parents would get counseling for their marriage and would spend more time with each other instead of Carolyn spending more time with her a job. I feel that in order for a family to be able to work you have to spend time together and do things as a family in order for a family to work.…
Explain how people from different backgrounds may use and/or interpret communication methods in different ways…
You spent the past few days exploring the resources available to students at University of Phoenix, and you want to share what you learned with a friend who is interested in enrolling.…
I must admit that when I decided to enroll here at the University of Phoenix I was not very confident in my abilities to succeed. But since…
People all around the world have different communication styles based on their culture legacies. I, too, am affected by my Chinese culture when I communicate with others. In the chapter “The Ethnic Theory on Plane Crashes” in Outlier, author Malcolm Gladwell discusses the importance of cultural legacy on communication. Many of the plane crashes can be explained with “mitigated speech” by plane officers, meaning “any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said” (194). People’s cultural legacies significantly influence a person’s ability to communicate effectively with other people, and thus might cause misunderstandings and tragedies.…
Some awareness of the ways in which language use may influence other speakers and listeners.…
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Language is a powerful symbol of human and ethnic identity. When we hear someone speak, right away we make guesses about gender, education level, and place of origin. For example, a common theme that emerges from many identity stories as well as my own experience is the language. People feel they identify themselves with others by the language they speak. For many people language runs deeply into cultural and personal identities. They feel the language identifies them, they feel comfortable communicating and being involved mostly with people of their same culture. There is a certain use of the language such as idioms that only people of their same culture can understand. However, there are…