Identify what is studied in the field of cross-cultural communication as compared with intercultural communication.
What will be an ideal response?
Cross-cultural communication compares the communication styles and patterns of
people from very different cultural/social structures, such as nation-states. Intercultural
communication deals with how people from cultural/social structures speak to one
another and what difficulties or differences they encounter, over and above the different
languages they speak.
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