Intercultural Communication

Question 1

It is the communication between individuals from two distinct cultures.

Answer 1

Intercultural Communication

Question 2

CHALLENGES OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Answer 2

Anxiety
Assumption of similarities
Ethnocentrism
Stereotypes
Prejudice
Culture shock

Question 3

When speaking with people from other cultures or co-cultures, some degree of uneasiness is common.

Answer 3

Anxiety

Question 4

assuming that other cultures are the same as your own rather than unique.

Answer 4

ASSUMPTION OF SIMILARITIES

Question 5

It is the view that one’s own culture is superior to other civilizations.

Answer 5

ETHNOCENTRISM

Question 6

logical extension of ethnocentrism and one of the biggest barriers to intercultural communication.

Answer 6

STEREOTYPES

Question 7

They define stereotypes as “the perceptions or beliefs we hold about groups or individuals based on our previously formed opinions or attitudes”

Answer 7

Samovar & porter (1991:280)

Question 8

act of prejudging something by presuming you are fully informed about it before you actually are.

Answer 8

PREJUDICE

Question 9

The anxiety that results from losing all our familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse

Answer 9

CULTURE SHOCK

Question 10

SOURCES OF MISUNDERSTANDING

Answer 10

Ambiguity

Performance

Language

Gaps in world knowledge:

Local context

Question 11

lack of explicitness on the part of the speaker which leads to misinterpretations.

Answer 11

Ambiguity

Question 12

slips of the tongue and mishearing which may be due to utterances spoken quickly and unclearly.

Answer 12

Performance

Question 13

ungrammaticality of sentences

Answer 13

Language

Question 14

gaps in content rather than knowledge

Answer 14

Gaps in world knowledge

Question 15

orientation of the participants as well as the repair moves that follow the displayed misunderstanding.

Answer 15

Local context