engleski

Cultural and Linguistic Differences as Factors of Ineffective Communication

Inability to recognize cultural and linguistic predispositions of crewmembers is a component of human element frequently leading to maritime accidents. Recognizing general principles of taking actions by individuals of different cultural background within a multicultural community is based on identification of the essential culture-specific features. General cultural guidelines as a guide to successful communication as well as the importance of using simple, but correct working language in conditions of multi-national ship crews are presented. Multicultural aspect of a modern crew represents a challenge to a maritime lecturer in general and language lecturer in particular as regards his/her ability to prepare future crewmembers for intercultural contacts. English need not be limited to working language only. It can be a means of taking a closer look at geographically distant cultures searching for similarities rather than differences. English is compared with other languages as for segmental and suprasegmental features that often differentiate them, and some strategies of bridging this gap are proposed.

culture ; group-oriented ; individualistic ; multiculturality ; interculturality ; predispositions ; cultural topics ; English course

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