Intercultural Communication and Public Policy

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As there are different races and people in the world, so there are different cultures - meaning that cultural diversity is inevitable. Through human contact and association cultures meet. In such meetings every individual and culture projects itself as worthy, and should be held in high esteem. In today's world it is not encouraging to be ethnocentric - always taking action or inactions that crystallize and project a feeling of one's own culture or racial superiority. Such attitude obstructs meaningful interaction, human relations, tolerance and co-operation. Conversely, the skill and ability to tolerate and communicate effectively with people from diverse cultures is a social activity which begins from thought to behaviour, in both spoken and non-spoken versions. The book contains 19 essays, structured into five parts.

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• African Studies

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• Publié par: M and J Grand Orbit Communications
• Date de parution: 25 juillet 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9789785431148
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Intercultural Communication & Public Policy

A Partial List of Texts by the same Press 1.Four Decades in the Study of Languages & Linguistics in Nigeria 2.In the Linguistic Paradise 3.Languages & Culture in Nigeria 4.Globalization & the Study of Languages in Africa 5.Trends in the Study of Language & Linguistics in Nigeria 6.Convergence: English and Nigeria Languages 7.Language, Literature and Culture in Nigeria 8.Critical Issues in the Study of Linguistics, Languages & Literatures in Nigeria 9.Language Policy, Planning & Management in Nigeria 10.Language, Literature & Communication in a Dynamic World 11.Language, Literature & Culture in a Multilingual Society 12.Issues in Contemporary African Linguistics 13.Numeral Systems of Nigerian Languages 14.The Syntax of Igbo Causatives: A Minimalist Account 15.The Eleme Phonology 16.Basic Linguistics: For Nigerian Language Teachers 17.English Studies and National Development 18.Language, Literature & Literacy in a Developing Nation 19.Language & Economic Reforms in Nigeria 20.The Syntax & Semantics of Yorùbá Nominal Expressions 21.Functional Categories in Igbo 22.Affixation and Auxiliaries in Igbo 23.The Bette Ethnography: Theory & Practice 24.A Grammar of Contemporary Igbo 25.Language Endangerment: Globalisation and the Fate of Minority Languages 26.Compass–Comparative Literature in Africa 27.Society, Women & Literature in Africa 28.Vital Aspects of African Linguistics 29.Studies in Nigerian Linguistics 30.Intercultural Communication & Public Policy

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION & PUBLIC POLICY IN NIGERIA

Edited by

Ngozi Iheanacho Senior Lecturer University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria M & J Grand Orbit Communications Ltd., Port Harcourt

M & J Educational Books No. 10 Nchia Street, Delta Park Box 237 Uniport P.O., University of Port Harcourt,Nigeria Email: [e-mail] Phone:[phone] 2016 Ngozi Iheanacho All rights reserved. No part of this work may be used or reproduced in any manner, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written pe rmission from the Copyright owner except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. ISBN9789785416473 Published by M & J Grand Orbit Communications Ltd., Port Harcourt Overseas Distributors: African Books Collective PO Box 721, Oxford OX1 9EN, United Kingdom Tel: [phone], Fax: [phone] US Tel: [phone] Customer Services please email [e-mail] For Warehouse/shipping/deliveries: [phone]

DEDICATION To Mrs. Louis O. Iheanacho

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PREFACE As there are different races and people in the world, so there are different cultures – meaning that cultural diversity is inevitable. Through human contact and association cultures meet. In such meetings every individual and culture projects itself as worthy, and should be held in high esteem. In today’s world it is not encouraging to be ethnocentric – always taking action or inactions that crystallize and project a feeling of one’s own culture or racial superiority. Such attitude obstructs meaningful interaction, human relations, tolerance and co-operation. Conversely, the skill and ability to tolerate and communicate effectively with people from diverse cultures is a social activity which begins from thought to behaviour, in both spoken and non-spoken versions. It is against the background of taking cultural diversity seriously that we embarked on this book project, to specifically address the aims outlined below. Aims and Thrust (i) To promote the appreciation of human cultural diversity The work is a response to contemporary conception that successful intercultural communication is highly necessary for humanity to co-exist and survive, given the high degree of cultural integration and contagious effect of issues in the world. What happens in one culture extends to other parts. It therefore becomes reasonable to embark on production of a basic text that offers theoretical and thematic knowledge of human interaction, against the backdrop of different cultures.

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On the strength of such knowledge people can tolerate the human heritage of diversity, devoid of cultural arrogance. The necessity to understand other cultures is unavoidable in this age of increased cultural traffic and interconnection of the world. (ii) To proffer management skills for intercultural communication In pursuit of this aim the book offers resource materials and skills for interpersonal understanding and interaction in multicultural settings. It also offers useful resource materials for formulating and managing organizational culture and policies, business communication and human relations. In the area of international relations, the book also provides valuable data for diplomatic understanding, respect and appreciation of cultural diversity. (iii) To understand culture and public policy relations We want to understand the relation of culture, public policy and intercultural communication processes. In other words, the specific aim and thrust is to bring to limelight the cultural underpinnings of public policies in Nigeria, as an avenue of promoting indigenous values, ideologies and worldviews. (iv) To provide basic text for cultural studies The addition of cultural studies component into the Religious Studies curriculum of many universities across the world, and Nigeria in particular, is a source of pressure for cognate books. So, in response to the desire, the book is designed in a form and analysis that provide students basic reading text, especially in

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intercultural communication and sociology of culture component of their programme. Organization The book contains 19 essays, structured into five parts. Part One Conceptual Frames and Theoretical Principles Essays in this part provide the foundational base of the study. Accordingly, the first chapter offers the conception of the subject of culture, the human need and trend in understanding its substance, to the point of intercultural communication. In Chapter Two we discussed the theoretical foundation and principles that characterize intercultural communication for a constructive baseline knowledge of the processes and contexts. The third chapter probes into the increasing trend of the world’s interconnection,ipso facto the phenomenon of globalization, as concomitant of intercultural communication. The fourth chapter revibrates the inseparable tie between culture and sociology. On that premise, the essay crystallizes the intercultural communication contents and force in the function and characteristics of culture. Part Two Institutions and Intercultural Communication In this constellation are readings that crystallize the link and role of social institutions in intercultural communication. Our eclectic approach influenced our choice of the institutions discussed herein as highly potent in intercultural traffic. The first report (Chapter Five) is on education. Therein the essay is factual

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analysis, which presents education as an institution founded on human culture, for the purpose of socialization, development and integration of people into their groups. As people seek knowledge in its different dimensions and parts of the universe they experience alien cultures, and more so when people embark on educational tourism. In the next contribution of the constellation (Chapter Six), religion is presented as a dynamic institution that is effective in promoting intercultural contact. Religion is a concomitant of culture. Its role in intercultural communication is observed in the projection and transmission of worldviews, values, materials of worship and change initiatives, as it is practised and propagated in other cultures. The role of the media is also discussed in this part, in Chapter Seven. Although the media is not a primary institution of society, but it is very efficient in transmitting culture from one place to another. In Chapter Eight, we discussed the role of women as purveyors and carriers of culture, from one part of the world to another. The inclusion of the contribution under this constellation is because the platform under which women impact more in intercultural communication is the institution of marriage. In more than any other setting, women carry cultural practices and products from their different cultures of orientation to their cultures and homes of reproduction. They make changes through such cultural initiatives, as they also use the cultural knowledge in socializing and educating their children.

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