Abstract
<jats:p>This chapter examines human dignity through the lenses of multiculturalism, transculturalism, and interculturalism, highlighting the challenges and opportunities of intercultural communication in fostering human dignity. Dignity can be conceived as inherent to human beings or as culturally earned. People earn dignity by behaving according to socially approved norms and attaining higher social status. Thus, dignity is a culturally embedded, path-dependent concept. There are three main categories of cultural relations theories: multiculturalism, transculturalism, and interculturalism. In each, language plays a specific role, ranging from invisibility or resistance in multiculturalism to fostering mutual understanding in interculturalism. In a multicultural world, dignity must be understood as a communicative process negotiated in intercultural interactions, especially through linguistic practices that sometimes produce invisibility and sometimes enable symbolic resistance.</jats:p>