Malentendido intercultural e intracultural
ISSN: 1989-600X
Year of publication: 2006
Issue Title: Comunicación intercultural
Issue: 4
Pages: 141-155
Type: Article
More publications in: Comunicación: revista Internacional de Comunicación Audiovisual, Publicidad y Estudios Culturales
Abstract
The dialogue and the inter-translation are always possible among any cultures. However, the mutual understanding between two speakers of the “same culture” is often not possible. The differences between a culture’s internal systems and codes (of gender, education, generation, profession, ideology, language, religion, etc.) imply, in many intracultural communications, an inter-translation similar to the one implied in the intercultural communication. The groups whose members recognize themselves in the same cultural referents can impede the communication with others no because there are essential differences among their respective cultures, but because a process of strangeness or distancing among both has taken place, or of symbolic identitary closure