well crafted, the vision statement can serve through a torrent of change in product and service technology. The strategic vision needs to consider both the external customer and the employees, but should lack a defining or differentiating phrase between them. For example, General Motors provides all employees a card with its strategic vision, including a cause-effect diagram that indicates the importance of team work (figure 2). Simply stating a vision is not enough. It needs to be demonstrated
Exploration of Language “Black Vernacular” is a phrase that Henry Louis Gates Jr. uses in his book The Signifying Monkey to describe the ways that black people use language differently than others. This theme of “The Black Vernacular” is discussed by three authors: Jack Sidnell, Ted Hall, and Katherine Clay Bassard. These authors, in their articles, have some similarities in their arguments, as well as some differences. Sidnell writes mostly about the written aspect of “The Black Vernacular”, Hall
Implications of cross-cultural communication in business: A study of Swedish small enterprise “ImseVimse” and its international distributors and retailers Master in International Management Gotland University Supervisors: Fredrik Sjöstrand Per Lind Authors: Maka Kvantaliani Olga Klimina Spring 2011 Visby In times of rapid economic development and internationalization of business, effective cross-cultural communication among managers remains a challenge. This thesis aims to research and analyze
The purpose of stylistics is to improve and normalize the language (normative stylistics), the second purpose is to help better understanding, mainly in works of art. Stylistics is connected with other branches of linguistics. But it is not equal to linguistics science, such as phonetics, linguistics disciplines – lexicology, morphology, syntax because they are level disciplines as they treat only one linguistic level and stylistics investigates the questions on all
Communication Communication plays a key role in every culture, but the importance or preference a culture places on verbal or nonverbal communication differs greatly. The country of Japan is a high-context culture, which means their society places a greater importance on nonverbal communication rather than verbal communication. In order to understand why Japan places such importance on nonverbal communication, the way they verbally communicate with others needs to be discussed first. Many cultures
dress or the music you listen to are probably influenced by your peer group though it isn’t always obvious. Authority figures request or demand that you act in certain ways but your peers expect certain behaviour of you. Cultural beliefs also show a difference in conformity. A large part of social psychology is concerned with social behaviour studying how people conform to the social norms, obedience to authority and how people behave in large groups. Social psychology is also concerned with social
different aspects of microcultures. This paper will delve into all three types of microcultures; it will look at Vietnamese, Jewish, and Vegan cultures and compare them to mainstream Canadian culture. The subsequent comparative analysis aims at finding differences in an
psychology is the study of mental processes. The American Psychological Association defines cognitive psychology as "The study of higher mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, and thinking."[1] Much of the work derived from cognitive psychology has been integrated into various other modern disciplines of psychological study including social psychology, personality psychology, abnormal psychology, developmental psychology, and educational psychology. Cognitive psychology is
countries, politically, economically and culturally. Globalization has come into existence due to the following factors: (i) betterment in transportation and communication, (ii) human and capital mobility, (iii) increasing formation and existence of NGOs and multinational corporations. Betterment and improved technology in transportation and communication across the globe has significantly reduced great distances and shrunk the world. In old times when people used to ride on camels or cover distances on
the role of code switching in teaching second/foreign language from contractive analysis point of view and discusses how it helps develop learners ' interlanguage pragmatics. To this end first contrastive analysis hypothesis and its implications in teaching foreign languages as well as he notion of L1 transfer are reviewed. Then learner 's language system and the way it changes over time is investigated. The importance of pragmatics in language use and how it can change meaning in a given context