Inter culture Communication





Intercultural communication

What is Culture?

  • Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.


What is Intercultural?

•      Pertaining to or taking place between two or more cultures. Intercultural Communication is an interdisciplinary field of research that studies how people understand each other across group boundaries of various sorts. Communication between different cultures and social groups. It is a field of research regarding people’s understanding across group boundaries of various sorts. e. g.- national, geographical, ethnic, occupation, class or gender.
 According to Claire Kramsch intercultural communication in second language acquisition is acquired through authentic and legitimate discourse in the target language

Share the same language + National Culture = TESOL’s Goal

Various Sorts:
  •            Gender
  •             Class
  •             Occupational
  •             Ethnic
  •            Geographical
  •             National


View of Researchers:

Researchers generally view intercultural communication as a problem created by differences in behaviors and world views among  people who speak different languages and who belong to different cultures.

TESOL has always Goal the facilitation of communication among people who do not share the same language and national culture. After the Second World War, the rise of linguistics and of the social science. Demands of market economics, gave prominence to spoken language and communication across culture in situations.

Socio-cultural dimensions of English in India

ØEnglish is taught as a second language in India.
Ø Is it relevant to Indian reality?
Ø English is made to full fill the function of the second language
Ø English is used creatively and thereby the socio-cultural codes infused in it.
Ø We manipulate English for cultural expression; it is possible because it is second language.
Ø Social structure and cultural sensitivity of Indian Culture creates a new form of English language.

“Intercultural communication will have to deal with shifting identities and cross-cultural networks rather than with autonomous individuals located in stable and homogeneous national cultures”.


“Culture is communication and communication is culture”


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