Speech Comm

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

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Let's talk culture. Cultures, sub cultures, counter cultures. How do these facets effect communication?

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[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Culture is learnt, as are our communication skills, and how we communicate is linked to our culture. They're both cumulative. Communication is one of the cultural universals - communicating with a verbal language consisting of a limited set of sounds and grammatical rules for constructing sentences is a shared human cultural trait across the world. Different cultures have developed their own specific ways of carrying out or expressing them. For instance, people in deaf subcultures frequently use their hands to communicate with sign language instead of verbal language. However, sign languages have grammatical rules just as verbal ones do.

Culture affects language in terms of dialects, which can either be regional or social.

Different cultures and languages can lead to the development of pidgin languages, which sometimes become the mother tongue of a population and is then called the creole language. It is common for creole speakers to also speak another "standard" language as well. People may quickly switch back and forth between dialects, depending on the person they are talking to at the time. This pattern is referred to as diglossia

[allie-cameron.livejournal.com]

"The important thing to remember is that all cultures are different," Allie said. "I was in England over spring break and even though they speak the same language as we do, they have different vocabulary and different societal norms and those things can have a negative effect on communication."

[wannabelawyer.livejournal.com]

"Well subcultures and counter cultures can have their own slang, which can get in the way of communicating with people not involved in those cultures," Lindsey said. "And a lot of nonverbal communication is really different between cultures. Like making eye contact can either be polite or really rude, depending on the culture. That can interfere with cross-cultural communication."