Intercultural business communication and translator's cultural identity

Abstract

The growing scope of international business interactions and globalization of economy brings about more and more new experiences and problems in global business communication, a considerable amount of them dealing with the differences in culture specific behaviors, rules of business turnover, and cultural identities. International business deals, global outsourcing, bilateral and multilateral negotiations, workforce migration and similar processes draw the attention of ethnographers and social psychologists to the concept of cultural identity and cross-cultural adaptation. While most of research is focused on long-term changes in the psychology and behaviors of migrants, our subject of study is intercultural and meta-cultural competence as the features of cultural identity of the individuals bridging cultural gaps in intercultural communication and cultural adaptation – translators/interpreters as cross-cultural mediators.