1. Intercultural Communication
Chapter 10:
How Does Culture Impact Applied Contexts?

2. Intercultural Communication in Context
Think about your own communication practices and the role of context in them and vice versa. How are talk and silence influenced by what you talk about, with whom, when and where, and for what intended purposes?

3. Environmental Communication
Environmental communication as:
A symbolic resource for making sense of our world
A place of conflict
Gendered
In the context of ecotourism
Inherently cultural

4. Symbolic Resource: Functions
Pragmatic function
Communication-in-action
Enables us to talk about our world (e.g., nature), to educate about it, and to persuade
Example: When car manufacturers use ads using words and images to oppose higher fuel standards

5. Symbolic Resource: Functions
Constitutive function
The language we use makes up or composes representations of the world
The language we use influences our awareness and perceptions about our world and shapes our attitudes and ideologies about our world

6. Environmental Communication: Key Terms
Consider, discuss, and analyze the following key terms. What attitudes and ideologies do they constitute?
Anthropomorphizing
Ecofeminism
Other-than-human
Exotic other
Cosmovision

7. Healthcare and Intercultural Communication
Differing cultural expectations
Specific applications of cultural communication in healthcare
Sensitivity to cultural communication considerations in healthcare

8. Healthcare and Intercultural Communication
Sensitivity to cultural communication considerations
Verbal communication
Translation/interpretation
Nonverbal communication
Facial expression, eye behaviors, touch, gestures

9. Organizational Leadership and Intercultural Communication
Social scientific approach: Dimensions of intercultural leadership success
Charismatic/value-based
Team-based
Participative
Humane-orientation
Autonomous
Self-protective

10. Organizational Leadership and Intercultural Communication
Interpretive approach: Leadership and sense-making
Gauging preparedness for leadership
Understanding the different meanings associated with leadership

11. Organizational Leadership and Intercultural Communication
Intellectual capital: One’s knowledge of how things work, one’s interest in learning about foreign lands, as well as one’s ability to make connections and sense across a wide variety of options

12. Organizational Leadership and Intercultural Communication
Psychological capital: One’s desire to explore the world, take risks, and experience new things, and one’s ability to accept and even enjoy uncertainty in life
Are you able to accept and even enjoy life’s uncertainties? Explain.

13. Organizational Leadership and Intercultural Communication
Social capital: One’s ability to build bridges between those with diverse opinions, to be concerned more with listening than getting one’s own point across, and to empathize with people from very different backgrounds than one’s own.
Are you ready to assume a leadership position in an intercultural setting? Explain.