Intercultural communication by Claire kramsch

Intercultural or cross - cultural communication is an interdisciplinary field of research that studies how people understand each other across group boundaries of various sorts: national ,geographical ,ethnic, occupational , class or gender.
TESOL has always has its goal the facilitation of communication among people who do not share the same language and national culture.but before the second world war , the term 'culture' meant knowledge about great works of literature,social institutions and historical events ,acquired through the translation of written texts.
while the term ' intercultural communication ' became prominent in TESOL only in the 1980s.
The field jf intercultural communication in europe was a direct outcome of the social and political upheavals created by the large scale immigrations in to the industrialised countries. It has therefore been much more closely linked to fields such as anthropology sociolinguistics pragmatics and discourse analysis even though behavioural training is also part of the field in europe.it is worth noting that intercultural communication studies have not drawn to any notable extent on humanistic disciplines like semiotics , hermeneutics or cultural studies( however , byram 1989).
the society for intercultural education training and  research (SIETAR).international communication association (ICA).