Komunikacja międzykulturowa jako negocjowanie znaczeń

The text examines processes of intercultural communication applying the interactionist approach. Following the Ricoeur’s concept of discourse and the Berger’s expectation states theory, the most significant aspect of the above mentioned communication are negotiations of reality aiming to define the meaning and course of a situation and interaction. Both the dynamics and contents of social actors’ expectation result from their culturally determined perception and communication codes as well as their personal features (such as intercultural experience, motivational factors, social competences and so on). A significant role has to be ascribed, however, to the specificity of social and physical space of communication creating primary conditions for an interaction. The proposed thesis is being discussed in the context of several cases of intercultural communication placed in various kinds of social spaces.