COMPRENSIONI E MALINTESI NELLA COMUNICAZIONE INTERCULTURALE. UN ESEMPIO DELL'INCONTRO TRA TEDESCHI E ITALIANI

STEFAN NIENHAUS
2009
Thanks to the process of globalization, demands for intercultural communication skills are increasing more and more. The paper examines intercultural communication as the management of messages across cultures, particularly between the German and Italian ones. But often, problems of communication arise in intercultural dialogue when the communicators have different values and understand concepts of meaning and identity in strikingly different ways. Moreover, the author discusses about what
more » ... otypes mean, how they arise, why they are often inaccurate and even dangerous, and how to avoid stereotypes in interactions with people from other cultures and carry out intercultural communications in a more effective way.
doi:10.15162/1970-1861/212 fatcat:cfduoyymnncgfpsxmzx46vymc4