INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Humanbeing has been communicating since the existence of human race to supply his or her needs. The quantity of needs that the main essence of communicating has increased,  people has obliged to communicate in vider and vider environment. They cannot supply their needs in their own environment, have started to travel and meet other cultures thanks to them.

With the evolution of the easy travelling opportunities by the means of transport, people have had a chance to preffer to settle in another countries and also other cultures. The people who want to have better life and business conditions live in different societies sometimes permenently sometimes temporarily. If those people can communicate with the others according to host culture and values, can be accepted more easily.

In our days, intercultural communication is inevitable thanks to modern communication technologies. By the devolopment of the communication technologies the World has become common culture place and the people act like they belong to this common culture. When the first use of “Global Village” concept, it has seen like a prophet but now it became real in our time. The societies have noticed this, try to develop their intercultural communicational skills. Some factors that interrupt the intercultural communication have become obstacles for the countries to develop and innovate themselves. To overcome these obstacles can be possible by knowing and try to understand the circumstances and psychologic situations.

The aim of the study to evaluate the intercultural communication’s prohibitor and developer factors and the nature of intercultural communication as a common communication system in the world and interested each person on earth by the help of literature review and add a new source to the literature.