CROSS CULTURAL COMMUNICATION: Understanding Language and culture for global communication and interaction is seemingly typical in that it encompasses the English language, communication, and culture across the world. It gives the readers opportunities to recognize common information particularly English language for communication and interaction in a global setting.
By this book, the readers gain awareness of English language, other languages of different countries and cultural differences or similarities as well. Then, it also develops confidence in communicating and interacting with the native speakers of English and the people of English speaking countries and other people from different culture as well.
CROSS CULTURAL COMMUNICATION: Understanding Language and culture for global communication and interaction was written because it is a fact that language and cultural differences often create and lead to misunderstanding particularly among people from different countries and consequently the purposes of communication are not achieved. Then, the intensive and extensive misunderstanding during communication and interaction are assumed to be able to lead a “conflict” among them.
It is a fact that that the acquisition of skills for culturally different patterns of communication and interaction become important to whoever want to communicate with people from different language and culture.
CROSS CULTURAL COMMUNICATION: Understanding Language and culture for global communication and interaction, frankly speaking provides materials mostly about English language and English cultures pattern but it does not mean that the readers are not suggested to cope and copy English people and culture when communicating and interacting. The use of a certain communication and cultural ways depends on context in terms of time, situation, and place.
This book actually convinces the readers that communication and interaction, language and culture cannot be separated among others. They are as a system working together to create meaning. Then, it is believed that the effective communication (mostly a cross-cultural communication) depends on both how one understand the language and the culture.