ARECLS‚ 2008‚ Vol.5‚ 105-135. THE INFLUENCE OF CHINESE CORE CULTURAL VALUES ON THE COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOUR OF OVERSEAS CHINESE STUDENTS LEARNING ENGLISH ABDUSALAM ABUBAKER Abstract This study is based on three dimensions of Hofstede’s framework‚ which are power distance‚ masculinity versus femininity‚ and uncertainty avoidance. Hofstede (1980) considers the Chinese culture to be characterized by high power distance‚ medium masculinity and weak uncertainty avoidance. For this reason
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Intercultural Communication Affecting International Commerce and Foreign Policy: France Opposes Turkey Entering the European Union Communication within one cultural group sharing traditions and national or regional identity is often effortless. The social and cultural meanings between the same cultures in regard to communication are understood the way they are intended. When discourse happens within members of the same social groups; they will communicate‚ talk‚ discuss in similar places that
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Explain how different social‚ professional and cultural contexts may affect relationships and the way people communicate. When communicating with others we need to consider the context within which we are working. We would need to adapt the way we communicate for different situations‚ most people do this automatically. Your school should have a range of planned communication for dealing with other professionals; there would be informal communications‚ meetings and discussions. Talking is not the
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Business Communication is different in Pakistan compared to western countries Communication is any behaviour‚ verbal or nonverbal‚ that is perceived by another. (Dwyer 2006) business communications are purposive interchanges of ideas‚ opinions‚ information‚ instructions and the like‚ presented personally or impersonally by symbol or signal as to attain the goods of organization. (Rosenblatt‚ Cheatham & Watt 1992) Today‚ the organization is growing more complex and the business is growing larger‚
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Did you ever wonder why it is difficult to communicate with a person from a different country or culture? Well‚ Laray M. Barna writes of the 6 distinct things that hinders or obstructs intercultural communication in her essay “Stumbling Blocks in Intercultural Communication.” We watched three videos‚ each expressing one or more of the stumbling blocks in a real life situation. The videos showed how one person’s misconception of the new culture that he finds himself in‚ leads to misunderstandings
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COMM 107 - Oral Communication: Principles and Practices Fall 2011 Section 0801: MWF‚ 9:00-9:50am‚ PLS 1176 Instructor: Liang Ma Office Location: Skinner Building‚ Room 0109 Office Hours: M/W 10:15AM-11:15AM or by Appointment E-Mail: liangm@umd.edu (ELMS email is preferred) About Your Instructor Liang Ma earned her M.A. Degree in Communication Studies at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in Spring 2011. Liang taught a hybrid course of public speaking and human communication for two years
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has its own communication style and habits. These different styles do not translate well and businesses need to pay special attention to communication with foreign colleges and clients. The communications between people happens all the time‚ especially when one of the parties is using a second language. As mentioned earlier‚ intercultural communication problems must occurred because of linguistic and cultural differences. Language can be a barrier to intercultural communication that is problems
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and Geert Hofstede have given us the cultural theories which explain and contrast the differences between two main distinguishable cultures‚ high and low context cultures‚ as a whole. However‚ as an individual‚ I cannot entirely rank myself in an absolute sense of any particular cultural context yet. Therefore‚ a closer and careful look into each criteria separately is needed in order to analyse my personalities and to clarify my high and low context cultural factors. Firstly‚ I would like to have
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THE GRIP OF CULTURE: EDWARD T. HALL Edward T. Hall is an anthropologist and one of the founders of intercultural communication study. His works have played a key role in describing how people’s view of the world and behavior are largely determined by a complex grid of unconscious cultural patterns. In The Silent Language (1959) Hall outlined a broad theory of culture and described how its rules control people’s lives. In The Hidden Dimension (1966) he introduced proxemics‚ the study of our
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Putting cultural theory into practice. Since the world entered the new century globalization of all aspects of people’s lives has increased. More and more companies have been transformed into MNEs. According to Rugman and Collinson (2009) the number of employees working across borders nearly tripled over the last 20 years‚ exposing managers to various socio-cultural and ethical issues. Geert Hofstede argues that “culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences
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