Cultural competence

There are multiple cultural groups and when communicating verbally, cultural assumptions are made within the given society or group. Similar like relationships, culture also influences verbal communication. So culture influences meanings that are given to words and the use of words (Duck and McMahn…

1. Body Language Body language is the process of communicating nonverbally through conscious or unconscious gestures and movements, or the simple definition is communicating without words. It’s important because it has a lot of functions, examples: - To express our feelings about what are we discussing. Body language can help us determine how someone feels about what they are saying. - You can now when someone is lying to you. - To understand how we come across to other people and be able to…

Discourse is a simple, flat forum, where replies flow down the page in a line. It is known as formal discussion of a topic in speech or writing among individuals, but it has also come, within linguistics for instance, to mean the way in which linguistic elements are united so as to constitute variant, a structure of meaning larger than the sum of its parts. In the society, social practices and institutions are both integrated by and situated within forms of discourse and works as organizing and…

unable to establish a middle ground for decades. From helping policy makers better understand the vast difference in culture and communication to helping businesses work better with their Eastern counterparts, I will be pugnacious about closing the cultural gap and opening doors to better governmental relations and healthier business…

Nonverbal communications are important because they add a sense of trust and interest to conversations. Nonverbal communications help the speaker as they provide a complement to what he/she is saying. The body communicates nonverbally with the gestures and movements that the speaker does. Kinesics includes emblems, affect displays, illustrators, regulators, and adaptors. Emblems are body gestures that translate into words or phrases that the speaker would use verbally. When using emblems, people…

Nonverbal Communication In the iconic Jingle Bells Christmas show, The Plastics are known for performing a sexualized dance each year. Before this year’s dance, Regina turns to Gretchen and makes her move to a different spot which seems like a ploy to show Gretchen that Cady is her new favorite. In this scene, proxemics is used as a way to illustrate your position in the social hierarchy. In this case, the space between Gretchen and Regina was implicitly telling her that Regina was displacing…

The topic of intercultural competence have become very important in the past years of the globalization era where people of diverse cultures meet, study and work together. Conversation between culturally different speakers are more likely go wrong than between the speakers of the same culture. People need to obtain the intercultural competence in order to communicate smoothly with people from different cultural background and go beyond the conceptual meaning of the utterance. Misunderstandings…

Cultural competence is a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency or among professionals and enable that system, agency or those professions to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. Multicultural competence requires constant work, study and development as counselors move through their careers. It is ever changing and demands attention. Even though I have been exposure to those from other cultures in business, organizations, school,…

Verbal and Non-verbal Communication Differences across Cultures Communication refers to the use of messages to create meaning within and across a variety of cultures, contexts, media, and methods (Ting-Toomey 12). The two major types of communication, verbal and non-verbal, are very important in today’s globalized business environment. On the one hand, verbal communication involves use of express words/sound to convey specific messages (De Meuse and Robert 11). On the other hand, non-verbal…

New York, Tokyo, Berlin; these are some of the top fashion epicenters worldwide. These cities are the driving forces of cultural trendsetters who have major influences on design, commerce and eventually the economy ("Fashion Capitals"). Being internationally recognized as having strong identities in fashion, these capitals develop a mixture of business, recreation, and cultural activities to compensate for. This huge success, no matter the place, is due to the ambiance and hype that surrounds…