1. Intercultural Communication
Cynthia C Ebert

2. What is the most important or distinguishing feature of your cultural makeup? (Which special cultural aspects of your culture will help us as a group to understand something about who you are or where you come from?)

3. Intercultural communication = communication between people of different cultures and ethnicities.
Defining communication;
Defining culture;
Defining IC

4. The value of Intercultural Communication
Why do we need awareness of what is Intercultural Communication? What could be the benefits of it?

5. The value of Intercultural Communication
Why do we need awareness concerning Intercultural Communication? What could be the benefits of it?
reduce conflicts;
increase commerce;
develop healthier communities;
promote personal growth through tolerance.

6. Human Communication

7. Human Communication Communication is everywhere, everyday!
the ability to symbolize and use language;
the essence of what it means to be human;
how people define themselves;
the vehicle by which people initiate, maintain and terminate their relationships with others;
the vehicle by which people influence and persuade others;
It is through communication that local, regional, national and international conflicts are managed and resolved.

8. Culture

9. Culture Socially transmitted knowledge shared by some group of people.
everything that people have, think and do as members of society.
the nonbiological means of human adaptation.
all cultures are made up of material objects, ideas, values and attitudes and patterned ways of behaving.

10. FISH OUT OF WATER

11. © Steve J. Kulich, Shanghai International Studies University

12. TAKE AWAY
Please, comment on the questions for our next meeting (it is your personal view that I expect)
What do you think is intercultural communication?
In what ways, if any, has our discussion today changed your perspective about what is intercultural communication?

13. references
BENNETT, Milton J. Basic concepts of intercultural communication: paradigms, principles & practices. Boston, EUA: Intercultural Press, 2013
NEULIEP, James William. Intercultural communication: a contextual approach. 5 ed. Los Angeles, EUA: SAGE, 2012