By Janet M Bennett
In 1980, SAGE released Geert Hofstede’s Culture’s Consequences. It opens with a quote from Blaise Pascal: “There are truths in this part of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods at the other.” The e-book grew to become a classic—one of the main brought up resources in theSocial technological know-how quotation Index—and in this case seemed in a moment version in 2001. This new SAGE Encyclopedia of Intercultural Competence picks up on subject matters explored in that ebook. Cultural competence refers back to the set of attitudes, practices, and regulations that permits anyone or organisation to paintings good with humans from differing cultural teams. different similar phrases comprise cultural sensitivity, transcultural abilities, range competence, and multicultural services. What defines a tradition? What limitations could block winning communique among participants or businesses of differing cultures? How can these limitations be understood and navigated to reinforce intercultural conversation and figuring out? those questions and extra are defined in the pages of this new reference work.
Key Features:
- 300 to 350 entries prepared in A-to-Z type in volumes
- Signed entries that finish with Cross-References and proposals for extra Readings
- Thematic “Reader’s advisor” within the entrance topic grouping related entries by means of huge subject areas
- Chronology that offers a historic standpoint of the advance of cultural competence as a discrete box of study
- Resources appendix and a complete Index
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Intercultural Competence is an authoritative and rigorous resource on intercultural competence and comparable matters, making it essential reference for all educational libraries.
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Effective communication requires uncertainty to be sufficient for interest but limited to a comfortable degree. The second theoretical assumption is about anxiety, which is the emotional equivalent of uncertainty and is characterized by feelings of uneasiness, tenseness, worry, and apprehension. Individuals experience more anxiety when they communicate with those outside their own group than with members of their own group. , it should be high enough to make one feel motivated but not so high as to make one uneasy and tense).
Oxford, UK: Routledge. Pennycook, A. (2001). Critical applied linguistics: A critical introduction. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. ASCRIBED AND ACHIEVED STATUS In each society and/or cultural group, people are viewed as having an ascribed status or an achieved status. These terms are ways of describing an individual’s placement in the social hierarchy or culture. In the purest form, ascribed status is a status that an individual is born with and can’t control, such as race. Achieved status is an earned status that usually reflects an individual’s effort.
Managing levels of anxiety and uncertainty between minimum and maximum thresholds is essential for achieving optimal outcomes of effective communication and intercultural adaptation. The AUM theories represent a major theoretical research program that informs these two important topics in intercultural communication. While the theoretical program has evolved over the years, it remains important to intercultural communication research and practice. This entry provides a brief overview of the AUM theory of effective communication.