1. HUM105/Intercultural Communication

2. Culture and Communication
Culture: Sets of learned ideas and behaviors that constitute the primary adaptive strategy for human societies.
Communication: the meaningful exchange of information.
Language (Symbolic Reasoning):
- Productivity - Displacement - Arbitrariness
- Discreteness

3. Culture and Communication
Sender Medium Receiver Message Encoding Transmission Message Decoding
(Construction) Sound (Interpretation)
Vision
Touch
Smell
Taste
The Continuum of High Context/Low Context Culture

4. Culture and Communication
Linguistic Messages Verbal Language Sign Language Written/Braille Nonlinguistic Messages Body posture/movement Facial Expressions Gestures Eye Contact Space Time

5. Culture and Communication
“Figures of Speech”

6. Culture and Communication
Categories of Difference Race Gender Class Sexuality Disability

7. Intersectionality & Spheres of Influence
Realm of Social
Interaction
Representational
Realm
Social Structural
Realm

8. Intersectionality & the Individual
Gender
Race
Sexuality
Disability
Class

9. Intersectionality & the Individual
Race
Gender
Class
Disability
Sexuality

10. Communicative Competence The mastery of rules for culturally appropriate communication