Bridges Not Walls Metaphor: Culture

3.1 – Explain how individuals from a different backgrounds may use communication methods in a different way

Different social, professional and cultural contexts may affect relationships and the way people communicate due to of a lack of understanding or knowledge of one another’s background and culture. This could be through their race, religion, ethnicity or where they come from. Each one of these can have similar or very different ways to communicate. For example

Explain how people from different backgrounds may use and/ or interpret communication methods in different ways

4.7 People from different backgrounds may use communication methods in different ways, for example people from different religious beliefs may find some gestures different so you should always make sure you are not doing something that may offend them, and you may also have a language barrier here. Also you may have someone who is deaf or hard of hearing they communicate in different ways, by sign language or pictures to help you understand their needs.

Communication is all about sharing, what one person says isn’t always what the other person hears or interprets. Where people from the same backgrounds with similar experiences will see and hear things in a similar way, where as one person from a certain culture entertaining a visitor from another culture or country may say something which is totally misinterpreted from the visitor. This can be down to language barriers, slang/jargon etc, an example of this would be an English man saying in

Another example of how different social and cultural differences effect the way people communicate is a parent of a pupil I work quite closely with can not read. This is a social difference because it effects the way she communicates socially with other parents at the school and also the staff who work their. We can not communicate with this

People from different backgrounds may use and/or interpret communication methods in different ways because every family has their own way of communicating together. For example: some children might hear or speak more than one language at home or they could hear others swearing. This can affect children’s communication and how they communicate as adults.

In our world of expanding technology and shrinking geography, people of different cultures have increasing frequency of contact and need for effective communication on a daily basis. Whether through travel, immigration, or international business, having the ability to communicate across many different cultures is an advantage in and of itself. Speaking a different language is an obvious obstacle to intercultural communication, but a greater and more difficult hurdle is to “speak” a different culture. To understand and comprehend and even apply these tiniest

Language is a communication method that makes everything easy to communicate with others. The language barrier is the biggest challenge and hurdle of most people whom their English is a second language. Growing up in a family with parents that only speak another language could be viewed very similarly to a double-edged sword. This challenge with society forces people to learn the English language. Although there a lot of difficulties with the second language, eventually the transition between both languages would become easier by time and more practice. Starting to be able to comprehend the English language is the best way overcomes this barrier. Although these challenges were not easy to overcome, persistence, dedication and hard work would facilitate everything. Despite the fact that language is considered the biggest barrier, culture comes as a second harder barrier in means of communication. Effective communication with people of different cultures is especially challenging. Culture on the other hand, provides people with ways of thinking, seeing and hearing and, then understands the things around. Thus, the same word can mean different things to people from different cultures, even when they talk the same language. Stella Ting-Toomey describes how culture involves with cultural understanding where ach culture has its own rules about proper behavior which affect verbal and nonverbal communication. How close the people stand to each

Communication is vital in today's society. Language and culture are referred to regularly on a day to day basis. America is the melting pot of the world and being able to recognize the significance cross-cultural dialogue is imperative to our growth as a civilization and in world diplomacy. "Learning a language without the cultural framework in which it exists is like cooking ethnic food without the spices of the region. You simply will remove all of the flavor from the language" (The Importance of Culture Language). When comparing mankind's encounter with another species to the personal interactions of different ethnicities and cultures shows how easily discussions can be misinterpreted, potentially leading to hostile

Communication can be blocked if individual differences are not understood. There are 3 ways in which this happens; a person can not see, hear or receive the message, a person can not make sense of the message, a person misunderstands the message (Core Themes in Health and Social Care, page 6, Beryl Stretch). These can all make communication ineffective and often impossible but can all be overcome with a different method or communication aids. ‘A barrier gesture is any action, behaviour or physical arrangement (such as room layout) that discourages the other person from feeling comfortable, thereby reducing their ability to communicate positively and effectively’

people communicate as we must appreciate that the language we speak, the body language we portray, may not necessarily correspond to that of others, and so it will need to be modified to promote a positive foundation on which relationships flourish.

The connection between language and culture is closely linked because language is employed to share cultural relationships. In every culture there are basic values for common communication such as eye contact or body language and there are certain gestures that have distinct meanings in diverse cultures. For example, some gestures are considered offensive in some traditions, yet polite in others. Why is it essential to interpret other culture dialects? To avoid miscommunications in today’s society, acknowledging the way language is portrayed in different cultures will be useful prior to relationships with people of another culture. An interesting culture to explore is China because one of their basic forms of communication is nonverbal

Speech codes theory is an account of communication as a deeply cultured human activity. The theory, and the empirical research on which it is built, demonstrate that the kinds of local knowledge people deploy to talk about—to characterize, interpret, and rationalize—their communicative conduct is indeed local, particular knowledge, and that such knowledge can be discovered and described through systematic inquiry. This article describes the key theoretical commitments of speech codes theory, identifies its six propositions, illustrates research within the tradition, and assesses its purposes.

Before speaking, we tend to consider any aspects as part of social values in the community. This can appear in a language we use in which we tend to speak differently in term of different dialects, or genre in a different context for example, we speak differently to a teacher, close friends, elderly people, or to our parents. The way we treat people differently in term of the use of language is might be to show a respect, solidarity, or even a distance. In term of a distance, both social and psychological distance can be shown through a language for instance, a student who speaks to a friendly professor that is socially distant but psychologically close and to a very respected professor that is socially and psychologically distant.