Intercultural Communication Rhetoric

Being a competent intercultural communicator is being able to utilize the six dialectic of intercultural communication during communication practices. Dialectic refers to a method of logic based on the principle of idea generating its opposite, leading to a reconciliation of the opposites (Martin and Nakayama 77). These dialectics include cultural-individual, personal-contextual, differences-similarities, static-dynamic, history/past-present/future, and privilege disadvantage dialectics. Using these dialectics, one can view intercultural discourses from a wider perspective, allowing for better understanding among people of diffferent cultures.
Although one may not express the idea of these dialectics verbally during intercultural communication,