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    Intercultural communication has ancient roots as a human activity, but emerged as an academic discipline in the 1950s led by anthropologist Edward T. Hall. Hall coined the term "intercultural communication" and established the first paradigm for studying it systematically while working at the Foreign Service Institute, focusing on nonverbal communication, unconscious information exchange between cultures, and a non-judgmental view of cultural differences. The field began with a practical focus on training diplomats and others but later spread to universities, where academic study and theory building has advanced intercultural communication as a discipline.

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    Intercultural communication has ancient roots as a human activity, but emerged as an academic discipline in the 1950s led by anthropologist Edward T. Hall. Hall coined the term "intercultural communication" and established the first paradigm for studying it systematically while working at the Foreign Service Institute, focusing on nonverbal communication, unconscious information exchange between cultures, and a non-judgmental view of cultural differences. The field began with a practical focus on training diplomats and others but later spread to universities, where academic study and theory building has advanced intercultural communication as a discipline.

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    Intercultural communication has ancient roots as a human activity, but emerged as an academic discipline in the 1950s led by anthropologist Edward T. Hall. Hall coined the term "intercultural communication" and established the first paradigm for studying it systematically while working at the Foreign Service Institute, focusing on nonverbal communication, unconscious information exchange between cultures, and a non-judgmental view of cultural differences. The field began with a practical focus on training diplomats and others but later spread to universities, where academic study and theory building has advanced intercultural communication as a discipline.

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    Theme 1: WHAT IS INTERCULTURAL

    COMMUNICATION?
    Intercultural communication as a human activity is ancient. Intercultural Communication as an academic
    discipline is however relatively new.

    In this section we will discuss intercultural communication as an academic discipline:

    historic overview of the field


    the academic field of intercultural communication
    studying culture and communication

    Historic Overview of Intercultural Communication


    For the proper name of the field "Intercultural Communication" credit is often given to American
    anthropologist Edward T. Hall, who used it for the first time in his book The Silent Language in 1959. The
    book is sometimes called "the field's founding document" (Hart 1998).
    Prior to publishing the book, Hall was a staff member at the Foreign Service Institute, USA (1951-1955),
    where he, together with his colleagues, worked out what can be called the first original paradigm for
    Intercultural Communication:

    Main elements of Hall's paradigm for Intercultural Communication (Hart 1998) were:

    systematic empirical study and the classification of nonverbal communication (defined as


    communication that does not involve the exchange of words)

    emphasis, especially in nonverbal communication, on the out-of-conscious level of information-


    exchange

    focus on intercultural communication, not as earlier on macrolevel monocultural studies

    a non-judgmental view toward and acceptance of cultural differences

    participatory training methods in Intercultural Communication.


    The beginning of Intercultural Communication was for applied purposes rather than for theoretical
    considerations: Training was the main issue. The first target audience comprised American diplomats and
    development personnel whose intercultural skills had to be improved.

    From the Foreign Service Institute, Intercultural Communication teaching and training spread to the
    universities and other organizations. University courses were given and academic textbooks in
    Intercultural Communication started to appear in the USA in a larger scale in the 1970s. In Europe, the
    first university courses in Intercultural Communication took place in the 1980s. The University of
    Jyvskyl has been one of the pioneers in the field.

    From the earlier, more applied focus on teaching and training, Intercultural Communication has in the
    recent decades developed and matured also as an academic field with its own theory building.

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