Verbal Interaction in Cross-Cultural Communication

Description

Nowadays, development of information-communication and transportation technology has enabled human race all over the world to interact with each other intensively. Differences in language, norm, and expectation might be barriers to communication among those from different cultures and nations. Thus, cross-cultural contact is unavoidable. There are seven barriers in verbal communication that should be mastered in cultural background as a tour guide. First, verbal polarization, second, intentional orientation, third, verbal description and inferention, four, verbal form evaluate error pattern, five, nature language relativity, six, psychological mental condition and seven, verbal indiscrimination of psychological background.