ACADEMIC INTEGRITY IN A CULTURAL CONTEXT Every culture is indeed unique and diverse‚ shaping and molding its belief systems‚ values ‚ and knowledge. In Africa‚ particularly Nigeria‚ we have traditionally been an oral society‚ in that from the days of slave trade‚ our forefathers have passed on the art of story-telling from one generation to another. Today‚ some of the stories have been compiled and taught as legends in our education systems and some are still being told by our fathers and grandfathers
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Cross Cultural Communication Process Communication is the act of transmitting messages‚ including information about the nature of the relationship‚ to another person who interprets these messages and gives them the meaning. Both the sender and the receiver of the message play an active role in the process. Successful communication requires not only that the message is transmitted but also understood. For this understanding to occur‚ the sender and receiver must share a vast amount of common information
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1.1. List your culture? Answer Shona culture 1.2 List the other person’s culture Answer Xhosa culture 1.3 Distinguish according to Hofstede ‚ any four differences between your culture and that other person’s culture and provide an example for each dimension? Answer. Individualism vs collectivism. The xhosa people have tightly knitted social frame networks‚ their primary concern is the entire group compared to a single person. Members depend strongly on extended family groups and
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around and face Mina‚ watching at the other girl peaceful sleeping face. She smiled to herself when she remembered the embarrassing situation earlier. "Huh?" "That’s not what I mean! You’re misunderstanding .. Oh my god." Chaeyoung fanning her face that suddenly felt hot because of the question that had just rolled out of her mouth. She knows Mina also misunderstandings judging by the girl’s face that suddenly turned red as a tomato. She cupped her face after in embarrasment. "Nevermind please
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The purpose of this essay is to describe a situation from practice related to communication between nurse and patient. The Department of Health (2003) defines communication as ‘a process that involves a meaningful exchange between at least two people to convey facts‚ needs‚ opinions‚ thoughts‚ feelings and other information through both verbal and non-verbal means.’ Communication occurs when a person (the source) sends a message via a particular medium (the channel) so it is received by a recipient
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Communication Style and Cultural Features in High/Low Context Communication Cultures: A Case Study of Finland‚ Japan and India Shoji Nishimura1‚ Anne Nevgi2 and Seppo Tella3 1 Waseda University‚ Japan 2 Department of Education‚ University of Helsinki 3 Department of Applied Sciences of Education‚ University of Helsinki Abstract People from different countries communicate in ways that often lead to misunder-standings. Our argument‚ based on Hall’s theory of high/low context cultures (1959‚ 1966
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Criteria Number and Statement: 2.2- Describe the factors to consider when promoting effective communication. There are many types of communication methods but these all come with their goods and bad‚ we have verbal communication when we speak to a person face to face or else on the phone and we have non-verbal communication such as e-mails and letters. There are factors to consider when you have verbal communication‚ when you have a face to face conversation with a child it’s very important to
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BA361: Cross-Cultural Business Communication Fall 2012; CRN 11688 Lillis 255 Instructor: Kay Westerfield Office: 194 Esslinger Wing A (entrance next to MacCourt) Office hours: TUES 3:00-4:30‚ WED 12:00-1:30‚ and by appointment Email: kwesterf@uoregon.edu Office phone: 541-346-1094 _________________________________________________________________________________________ Course Materials (Note the 5th edition of textbook.) Intercultural Communication in the Global Workplace. 2010. 5th edition
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of Cross-Cultural Communication © Anthony Pym 2003 Intercultural Studies Group Universitat Rovira i Virgili Tarragona‚ Spain* Pre-print version 3.3 The following is a series of propositions designed to connect a few ideas about translation as a mode of cross-cultural communication. The ideas are drawn from a multiplicity of existing theories; the aim is not particularly to be original. The propositions are instead intended to link up three endeavors: an abstract conception of cross-cultural communication
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Cross-Cultural Communication Vol. 8‚ No. 6‚ 2012‚ pp. 66-70 DOI:10.3968/j.ccc.1923670020120806.1356 ISSN 1712-8358[Print] ISSN 1923-6700[Online] www.cscanada.net www.cscanada.org Cross-Cultural Contrastive Study of English and Chinese Euphemisms WANG Xiaoling[a]; ZHANG Meng[a]‚*; DONG Hailin[a] [a] College of Foreign Languages‚ Hebei United University‚ West Xinhua Road‚ Tangshan‚ China. * Corresponding author. Supported by Study on Application of Cross-Cultural Teaching Concept in
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