This study aims at analyzing intercultural communication in shooting an Elephant (Short Story) by George Orwell. The study investigates the intercultural communication from various perspectives: culture, identity, prejudice, ethnicity, nationality, gender and social class. The researchers choose this short story because it encompasses intercultural communication, which is composed of British and Burma in colonization era. The method of the study is based on discursive, close and deconstructive reading in comprehending the text. The researchers use ethnographic approach entailing the following aspects: nationality, ethnicity, social stratification, culture, gender, age, and prejudice. The story shows the intercultural communication from various perspectives in terms of colonizer and being colonized. The study recommends that identity involves collective thinking and mass orientation, feeling of being oppressed can lead to prejudice and otherization and intercultural communication should be considered from negotiate shared meanings, which have three layers of meaning: content, relational, and identity and it should be understood from relational, psychological, and physical contexts aspect.

Keywords: Intercultural communication, Shooting an Elephant, Communication, Culture, Direct style, Indirect style.

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