The Culture, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Dimensions in Communication
محورهای موضوعی : مجله بین المللی علوم اجتماعی
1 - Assistant Professor of English Literature, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch and Young
Researchers and Elite Club
کلید واژه: Culture, intercultural, Cross-cultural, communication, Functions,
چکیده مقاله :
Culture as the philosophy of life refers to the values, norms and rules, and actual behaviorwhich is taken over by man from the past generations, and to leave it to next generation in a differentform, separates individuals belonging to the culture from individuals belonging to other cultures.Each of these different attitudes describes the degree to which the culture values the past, the present,or the future. Cultures place emphasis on the events that have happened or will happen during theperiod that they view as important. In order to be able to describe and understand each of the involvedcultures in a specific intercultural situation, three dimensions of culture are worked with: 'thehorizontal cultural dimension'; 'the vertical cultural dimension' and 'the cultural dimension of time.
