Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
2016
Department
Communication Studies
Abstract
As we encounter ever greater cultural and co-cultural diversity, the careful study of intercultural communication competence becomes increasingly important. Only through competent intercultural communication can persons from different cultures communicate effectively and appropriately in the upcoming global society. Following a recounting of themes of research on intercultural communication, this chapter presents arguments concerning individuals’ need to negotiate multiple identities in terms of culture, race, ethnicity, gender, and religion in the interdependent and interconnected network of global society. This requires a functional and theoretical transformation of the study of intercultural communication competence.
As the world populace grows more aware of its interdependence, it confronts ever-shifting cultural, ecological, economic, and technological realities that define the shrinking world of the 21st century. To develop newer ways of living in the world together, to see things through the eyes of others, and to add the knowledge of others to our personal repertoire become pivotal for further human progress. This global mindset can only result from competent intercommunication among peoples form diverse cultures.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Annals of the International Communication Association
Volume
19
Issue
1
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Chen, G. M., & Starosta, W. J. (1996). Intercultural Communication Competence: A Synthesis. Annals of the International Communication Association, 19(1), 353–383. https://doi.org/10.1080/23808985.1996.11678935
Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/23808985.1996.11678935
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