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跨文化交际学1-3章笔记-(上外传播-谢丹)
跨文化交际学1-3章笔记-(上外传播-谢丹)

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Why do we need to study intercultural communication?

Five trends of the modern world make IC inevitable (Five trends that make our world more interdependent):

1.Development of (communication and transportation) technology

Supersonic transports carry passengers from continent to continent in a matter of hours.

The internet, smart phones, and interactive cable TV systems etc. permit us instantaneously interchange information at

any time to most locations across our own country and around the world.

Thanks to these modern technologies common people are more connected than ever to the web of mediated intercultural

interactions.

2.Globalization of the economy

The progress of communication and transportation technologies has made markets more accessible and the world of business more globally inter-reliant in past decades. In face of economic globalization we have to reexamine our isolation and find

ways to deal with a wide variety of people from a broad range of cultural backgrounds. The search for mutually acceptable

guidelines for conducting economic exchange as trade barriers are lowered entails frequent IC.

3.Widespread population migrations

With the cultural interconnectedness that accompanies technological development comes the influence of cultural migration between nations. Conditions at home and abroad push or pull persons to leave their country to find peace, employment,

learning, or a new start. The quest for more productive interaction in international and domestic settings calls for the study of IC which investigates the dynamics of communication among persons of diverse national and ethnic origin.

4.Development of multiculturalism

With the influx of immigrants, the tributaries of different ethnicities, nations, genders, ages, tribes, and languages will flow

into the mainstream of the classroom and workplace. Cultural diversity, or multiculturalism, will become the norm, not the

exception. The field of IC will play a vital part in teaching new ways of interacting, in helping to negotiate multicultural

understandings, in dealing with the frictions that accompany the adjustment to new cultural realities, and in educating

citizens to a greater global awareness.

5.De-emphasis of Nation-State

With the development of cultural diversity comes the conflict of national identity and ethno-cultural identity.

Only through the understanding of IC can people develop a global mind-set in the interdependent global village that is our

world today and live more harmoniously and productively with one another. ......

The chronological development of the field of IC (A short history of IC)

The Burgeoning Period

IC as a field began in the 1950s, burgeoning as a result of E. T. Hall's The Silent Language in which the term "IC" was introduced for the first time. Communication scholars recognize Edward T. Hall as the father of the field of IC study.

Leeds Hurwitz pointed out that the contributions of E. T. Hall to the study of IC are:

1.Hall extends the single-culture focus of traditional anthropology study to comparative culture study, with a new focus on the

interaction of people from different cultures.

2.Hall shifts the study of culture from a macro perspective to a micro analysis.

3.Hall extends the study of culture to the field of communication. His extension gradually changes the emphasis from the

qualitative methods of anthropology to the quantitative methods of communication research.

4.Hall treats communication as a rule-governed, analyzable, and learned variable, a practice that permits communication

researchers to theorize about cultural patterns of interaction.

5.Hall proposes that a holistic understanding of a counterpart's culture is not necessary to IC. Voice, gesture, time, and space

can be used respectively and simultaneously to understand another culture.

6.The training methods developed by Hall at the Foreign Service Institute are still applied to the IC training.

7.Hall's use of descriptive linguistics as the model of IC research at the Foreign Service Institute continues to be the cornerstone

of contemporary IC study. Current "etic" and "emic" research methods are derived from model.

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8.Hall not only applied IC training to foreign service officers but also introduced it to international study.

From 1960 to 1970

The 1960s was the period of conceptualization of the field by communication scholars.

From 1971 to 1980

The 1970s showed rapid development, reflected in the publication of numerous studies.

From 1981 to the Present Time

During the 1980s the field moved toward integration and a clearer identity. The 1990s, stressing diversification of methods and displaying increased concern with domestic co-cultures, has also witnessed efforts to redress historical and colonial imbalances.

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The content of IC study (Compare the core content of IC study, as proposed by Rich, Stewart, and Gudykunst) According to Rich (1974), IC is an ambiguous concept. The content of IC can be classified into five forms.

2.Second, international communication focuses on the study of interaction between representatives of different nations (such as

the interaction between representatives in the United Nations).

3.Third, interracial communication focuses on the study of interaction between members of numerically or politically dominant

culture and co-culture in the same nation (such as the interaction between whites and African Americans).

4.Fourth, interethnic or minority communication focuses on the study of interaction among co-cultures in the same nation (such as

the interaction between Hispanic and Japanese Americans).

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/604488921.html,stly, contra-cultural communication focuses on the study of the developmental process linking IC to interracial

communication (such as the developmental process that led from the interaction between Columbus and Native Americans

to the interaction between First Nation Tribes and Canadians).

Stewart pointed out in his Outline of Intercultural Communication (1978) that the study of IC should lead to application in real-life situations such as intercultural training programs that based on a comparative cultural model of cognition.

Gudykunst (1987) classified the contents of IC study by using interactive-comparative and mediated-interpersonal dimensions to divide the realm of the inquiry into four categories: //

1.Intercultural communication, (which focuses on the concepts of "interactive" and "interpersonal" and deals with interpersonal

communication between people from different cultures or co-cultures, such as that among Chinese and Americans, or

between whites and African Americans, and encompasses the areas of intercultural, interracial, and interethnic

communication identified by Rich.) -

2.Cross-cultural communication, (which focuses on the concepts of "comparative" and "interpersonal" and deals with the

differences in communication behaviors between people of different cultures, such as the differences in negotiation strategies between Chinese and Americans.) -

3.International communication, (which focuses on the concepts of "interactive" and "mediated" and mainly deals with media

communication in another countries, exploring, for example, the role media play in Korean society.) -

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/604488921.html,parative mass communication (which focuses on the concepts of "comparative" and "mediated" and deals with the

differences and similarities of media systems in different countries, as in China and Russia). -In forty years the field of IC has developed both theoretical and applied perspectives.

Theoretically, the study of IC focuses on more or less purposive interaction between people of different cultures and different racial and ethnic groups.

Practically, IC is applied in different kinds of intercultural and interethnic training programs to help people of different

backgrounds understand and accept each other in academic, business, government, and other settings.

The Ethical Principles of IC Study 10

Reciprocity, mutuality, nonjudgementalism, honesty, respect.

Rethink

Discuss the relationship between the technological superhighway and the study of IC.

WHY should methodological and cultural pluralism inform the study of IC?

Research Highlights

A Fifth Moment in Intercultural Communication: A Dialogue

Theorizing Culture and Communication in the Asian Context: An Assumptive Foundation

On Intercultural Rhetoric P11

Intercultural Communication: An Inquiry into Research Directions P14

Toward a Paradigm Shift for Intercultural Communication: New Research Direction

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Vocabulary of Research Highlights

interpretive, rhetoric, rhetor, paradigm, divisive, premise, clarify, proposition, externality, exigence, spell out, inherent, exploit, breed, erode, erosion, here and now, portrayal, exemplify, philosophical underpinning, self-reflexive critique, bias, prevalent, school of thought, pose researchable question, explicate, estrange, cleave, cleavage, impair, constrain, mythology, motif, ethos, reframe, discourse, asymmetry, consistent, discord, legitimate, multiplicity, ideology, denounce, authoritarian, heterogeneity

CHAPTER 2 COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE

The relationship between Culture and Communication 07

Culture and communication act on each other. As the carrier of culture, communication influences the structure of a culture, and culture is necessarily manifested in our communication patterns by teaching us how we should talk and behave.

Communication 07

1.Definition of Communication

Communication is defined as an inter-determining process in which we develop a mutually dependent relationship by

exchanging symbols. Through the participation in this symbol-exchanging process we begin to establish a world of

"communicational reality" (Thayer, 1987), which assists us to learn a particular way of coding the world and to form a

community in which we organize ourselves socially and culturally.

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/604488921.html,munication has four characteristics:

1.First, communication is a holistic phenomenon.

Communication is its self a network of relations that gives interactants an identity by granting them unique qualities or

characteristics. Thus, in communication the interactants cannot be understood unless we understand their network of

relations, and we cannot understand their network of relations unless we understand the interactants (Chen, 1987).

verbal and nonverbal behaviors. Thus, in different contexts the same message can be interpreted in different ways. (e.g.

The statement, "You are lovely", could be interpreted as a "compliment" or a "caring" gesture. However, if the statement were uttered by an employer to a newly hired employee, it might be interpreted as an inappropriate message or as sexual harassment.)

3.Third, communication is a developmental process.

This process implies that the content and social realities communication creates evolve and change over time.

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/604488921.html,stly, communication is an orderly process.

Human communication behaviors are orderly and patterned rather than unpredictable and chaotic. The consensus of shared meanings and action of communicators through the use of symbols consistently follows a set of rules of

interaction which promote the achievement of personal and collective goals in communication process.

Culture 07

Definition of Culture

Culture is defined as a negotiated set of shared symbolic systems that guide individuals' behaviors and incline them to function as a group.

Culture serves two major functions:

1.First, it provides a context in which three aspects of human society are embedded: linguistic, physical, psychological.

Language allows us to communicate with people who have similar value and belief systems.

Physical aspects supply an environment of activities and permit what we do within the culture.

The psychological aspect is related to our mental activities, including what we believe and what we have learned.

2.Second, it functions to provide the structure, stability, and security that are required for the group and its members to

maintain themselves as a healthy system.

e.g. According to traditional Chinese custom, marriage of young people had to be arranged by their parents. A payment

made by the groom's family to the family of the bride would be made when the couple married. Dowry, including money, jewelry, or other gifts, from the bride's family usually accompanied the bride. Such structural matching process for the young people in traditional Chinese society clearly reflects the functions of culture, and maintained the stability of the Chinese society for many hundred years as well as ensured the financial security of the female family after a daughter moved out to stay with the other family.

Culture has four basic characteristics including:

1.First, culture is holistic.

As a holistic system, culture can be broken down into several subsystems, including a kinship system, an educational system, a religious system, an association system, a political system, and so on. But any change in a subsystem will affect the whole system. (e.g. The American Civil Rights Movement brought about changes in different facets of American

culture and altered American attitudes, values, and behaviors.)

2.Second, culture is learned.

Because culture is a shared symbolic system within a relatively large group of people, the only way for group members to integrate into, reinforce, and co-create this shared symbolic system is through a learning process, which will inevitably foster a phenomenon called ethnocentrism that leads group members to tie themselves tightly together and to be proud of their own heritages by subjectively using their cultural standards as criteria for interpretations and judgments in IC.

3.Third, culture is dynamic.

Cultures are constantly changing over time. Some cultures are more open and accepting of change, while others tend to resist it. Cultures change in the process of transmission from generation to generation, group to group, and place to place.

Four major mechanisms account for the change of cultures:

i.Technological invention (such as the discovery of communication and transportation tools normally elicits a different

set of social habits and behaviors that eventually alter the pattern of a culture),

ii.Disasters (including natural and human calamities. e.g. the American Civil War and China's Opium War brought great social and cultural changes to both societies. Likewise, the vanishing of the city of Pompeii in Italy was due to

the eruption of the Vesuvius volcano),

iii.Cultural contact (that gives each culture a chance to borrow things from other cultures. e.g. Italian pizzas and Chinese egg rolls have become staple dishes in America, while American fast foods and pop culture have greatly

changed the way Asian people live),

iv.Environmental factors (e.g. the result of increasing population of cities is that an industrial lifestyle has replaced the traditional agricultural living pattern. The change completely alters the way people initiate, maintain, and terminate

interpersonal relationships).

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/604488921.html,stly, culture is pervasive.

Culture penetrates into every aspect of our life and influences the way we think, the way we talk, and the way we behave.

Culture combines visible and invisible things around us.

IC 11

Definition of IC 07

IC is communication among people from two or more cultures. Because we are destined to carry our cultural baggage whenever and wherever we go, when people of different cultural backgrounds meet, communication is often more

complicated. The potential for miscommunication and disagreement is great because of cultural differences. Thus the study of IC aims to understand the influence of culture on our attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors in order to reduce

misunderstandings that result from cultural variations.

1.The positive feeling we possess at the affective level (including affirmation, self-esteem, comfort, trust, and safety);

2.The beliefs we bring to the intercultural encounter at the cognitive level (including expectations, stereotypes,

uncertainties, and misunderstanding of rules or procedures);

3.And the behavioral skills we possess at the behavioral level (including verbal and nonverbal communication skills in

intercultural settings).

According to Guan (1995), three potential forms of IC can take place, based on the interactants' intentions:

i.Self-centered dialogue

The self-centered IC takes the form of ethnocentrism. In this form of IC A and B completely use their own cultural standards to judge and interact with each other. The outcomes of this type of IC always lead to misunderstandings. HOW

to solve the problem of ethnocentrism? (Research Highlight P44)

A main reason for this kind of problem is the lack of cultural understanding between A and B.

ii.Dominant dialogue

A is well aware of B's cultural traits and differences, and uses this advantage to control

B to achieve his or her

personal goals.

This problem may happen at the interpersonal or international communication level (e.g. by the colonization and cultural imperialism imposed by Western cultures on the remaining nations in contemporary times. Further, within a

single nation, patterns of gender and ethnic domination may proliferate).

iii.Equal dialogue

Equal dialogue represents an ideal form of IC. This type of IC is based on mutual understanding of cultural similarities

and differences. Both parties make sincere and empathic efforts to overcome their differences on an equal basis.

Give an example of each form of IC illustrated above.

Rethink

HOW does the perception of communication due to cultural differences affect IC?

Research Highlights

Stumbling Blocks on Intercultural Communication

Culture and Conflict

On Communication: Essays in Understanding P22

Chinese Philosophy and Contemporary Human Communication Theory P23 Vocabulary of Research Highlights

syndrome, stumbling blocks, collectivism, aesthetics, metaphor, provision, provisional, vitalize, episteme, epistemic, schema, dispense, dispensable, indispensable, ration, rational, assess, identical, insightful, incept, inceptive, anticipate, underscore,

incorporation, emancipate, embody, pragmatic, polarity

Mini Case

IC P29

CHAPTER 3 CULTURAL PERCEPTION AND V ALUES

Perception

Definition of Perception

Perception is an active process by which we make what we sense into a meaningful experience by selecting, categorizing, and interpreting internal and external stimuli to form our view of world. (Internal stimuli include our nervous system, desires, and motivations. External stimuli are the sensations that come from the way we see, smell, touch, hear, and taste.)

The process of perception includes three stages:

1.Selection

As we face a large variety of stimuli every day, we are only capable of perceiving part of them through a selective process.

The partiality of our perception is the origin of misunderstanding in interactions, especially when people are from different

cultural backgrounds with diverse perception systems.

Selective perceptions involve three steps (Klopf, 1995):

i.Selective exposure

First, we usually selectively expose ourselves to certain kinds of information that will reinforce the decision we are

making. (e.g. When we plan to buy a car, we naturally expose ourselves to the automobile section when we open the

morning newspaper.)

ii.Selective attention

Second, selective attention dictates that we can only pay attention to one piece of our environment. (e.g. As students, if

we are worried about our grade and an exam, we will be inclined to read those materials relating to the subject area that

will be tested in class.)

Selective exposure and attention are influenced by our needs, training, expectations, and attitudes.

iii.Selective retention

Third, because of selective retention, we can only retain some of the stimuli we perceive. Basically, we tent to remember

messages that are pleasant and favorable to our own image; that are consistent with our beliefs, attitudes, and values;

and that are likely to be used in the future.

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/604488921.html,anization (Categorization)

Two characteristics of human perception emerge at this stage:

i.First, the categorization process gives human perception structure. We always translate the raw stimuli of the external

world into structured experience.

ii.Second, the process shows that human perception is stable. After we organize the stimuli into patterns they become durable. (e.g. The height of a person will not shrink because of variation in distance.)

3.Interpretation

Once we selectively organize our perceptions into structured and stable patterns, we try to make sense of the patterns by assigning meaning to them.

The interpretation process plays a very important role in intercultural interactions. (e.g. A kiss in the public may just

represent a way of saying hello in the West, but viewed as "lovemaking" in the Middle East.)

Interpretation is the third characteristic of human perception. That is, human perception possesses meanings.

It is important to note that although we treat the three stages of perception separately, in reality they are an integrated process with no clear boundary between them.

Four factors influence human perception:

1.Physiological factors

Physiological factors include taste, odor, hearing, vision, age, physical appearance, health, and physical cycle.

2.Social roles

Social roles include sex role and occupational role.

3.Self-concept

Self-concept is subjective, but often inaccurate. Self-esteem is the key component of self-concept.

4.Culture

A person's culture has a strong impact on the perception process. HOW culture influences perception?

1.Culture not only provides the foundation for the meanings we assign to our perceptions, it also determines how we

choose to expose ourselves to and direct our attention toward specific kinds of messages and events.

(e.g. The perceived meanings of different colors show the influence of culture. To the Americans, red represents anger,

hot, and sexual impurity; while to the Chinese red represents a color of longevity, splendor, and wealth. Green is a holy color to Muslims but means adultery to the Chinese.)

2.The influence of culture on perception is often reflected in the attributional process.

Attribution means that we interpret the meaning of others' behaviors based on our past experience or history. Cultu re provides an environment that allows us to develop all the meanings we possess. Thus, people from different cultures will perceive and interpret others' behaviors in different ways. (e.g. The Chinese and Japanese, as opposed to Americans, tend to attribute success to group action rather than individual effort.)

The different attributional process may cause serious misunderstandings in communication. To avoid such kind of

misunderstanding we must try to make an "isomorphic attribution" that requires us better understand the other's culture and put ourselves to another's shoes in the process of interaction (Harris & Moran, 1989).

The subjective nature of the perceptual framework arising from our culture indicates that our perception is often partial and inaccurate. The insufficiency manifests as stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. When cognitions (stereotypes) are assigned values (prejudice), we may enact biased action (e.g. discrimination).

Stereotype (belief)

Definition of Stereotype

Stereotypes are those over-generalized, exaggerated, and oversimplified beliefs we use to categorize a group of people (Allport, 1958). Stereotypes may be based on the truth, but they are exaggerated statements regarding our belief about what a group of people are or should be.

Stereotypes are related to human belief system. There are three kinds of beliefs:

1.Experiential beliefs,

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/604488921.html,rmational beliefs,

3.Inferential beliefs.

Three reasons lead to the distortion of facts by stereotypes:

1.Accentuation of differences,

2.Underestimation of differences,

3.Selective perception.

We form stereotypes in three ways:

1.First, we may categorize people or things by the most obvious characteristics they possess. (e.g. Japanese think

Americans are wasteful in utilizing space.)

2.Second, we may apply a set of characteristics to a whole group of people. (e.g. Asians are always associated with the

sciences and math by Americans.)

3.Third, we may give the same treatment to each member of the group. (e.g. A pervasive stereotype in the United States

is that ours is a white, English-speaking culture.)

Stereotypes may vary along four dimensions:

might say Americans are friendly but lacking discipline as well.)

2.Intensity

The intensity of stereotypes indicates the strength of a belief about a group of people. (e.g. "African Americans are

very musical" is an example of intense stereotype.)

3.Accuracy

Although stereotypes are exaggerated and over-generalized beliefs, they are not always fault. Some of them may be

half-truths, and others may be partially inaccurate.

4.Content

Stereotypes may vary in their specific content, for example, in the specific traits attributed to a group of people. (e.g.

Some African Americans may view white Americans according to a range of traits: aggressive, biased, cold, or

evasive.)

Prejudice (attitude)

Definition of Prejudice

Stereotypes naturally develop from a set of oversimplified and over-generalized beliefs into a rigid attitude toward a

group of people. Such an attitude based on erroneous beliefs or preconceptions is called prejudice.

Stereotypes and prejudice often occur together. In other words, when we hold stereotypes, for example, about Italians,

we also tend to have prejudice toward them.

Prejudice is a learned tendency by which we respond to a given group of people or event in a consistent (usually negative) way.

Prejudice especially varies along the dimension of intensity. Five common types (forms) of prejudice differ in intensity:

1.Verbal abuse (Antilocution)

Verbal abuse is often accompanied by ethnic jokes and name-labeling. (e.g. "Dead Indians are good Indians.")

2.Physical avoidance

Physical avoidance occurs when we dislike a group of people. Because of different religious beliefs, language systems,

and behavioral patterns, we may intentionally avoid making friends, going out, studying, or working with certain

people. (e.g. Some Irish Catholics and Protestants have been outcast for dating one another.)

3.Discrimination (behavior)

Discrimination refers to the denial of equal opportunities to out-group members. Discrimination is the acting out of

prejudicial attitudes. (e.g. When the British posted the sign "Dos and the Chinese can't enter" at the front gate of the

Chinese park in the colonial area, they performed discrimination.)

4.Physical attack

As the degree of discrimination intensifies, physically punishing the group of people who are disliked becomes

inevitable. (e.g. African Americans in New York City tried to drive Korean merchants from black neighborhoods by

means of intimidation.)

5.Massacre (Extermination/Mass killing/Genocide)

The worst result of prejudice is massacre. (e.g. The Nazis killed millions of Jewish during the World War 2.) Origins and Impact of Stereotypes and Prejudice

The origins

Stereotypes and prejudice do not suddenly appear when we are born. They are gradually developed from the process of

learning and socialization, and from exposure to mass media images.

As children, we learn stereotypes from our parents and friends.

As we grow up, we learn them from our schools, churches, friends, and significant others.

We also develop stereotypes from our personal experiences, especially through the interactions with people who had

visible and distinct traits such as impairment, physical appearance, and skin color.

Mass media also play an important role in the development of stereotypes and prejudice.

The impact

Because stereotypes and prejudice are based on our belief and attitude systems, they affect the way we communicate in

intercultural encounters.

They may prevent us from interacting with people of different backgrounds.

They tend to produce negative feelings during the interactions.

And they can lead to unnecessary conflicts when they are intense.

To solve the problems of stereotypes and prejudice the most important communication skill we should learn is empathy.

HOW to be an empathetic person?

Empathetic persons know how to show understanding by projecting themselves into their partners' position. This means that to be empathetic in intercultural interactions we need to be open-minded in terms of information sharings, to be imaginative in correctly drawing the picture of other's situation, and to show a commitment or culturally different patterns in any kind of situation.

Values

Definition of Value

A value can be defined as a conception, explicit or implicit, distinctive of an individual or characteristic of a group, of the

desirable which influences the selection from available modes, means, and ends of action (Kluckhohn, 1951). Values are guiding forces of human behavior and relate much with the way we communicate.

Sitaram and Haapanen (1979) summarized the relationship between values and human communication as follows:

1.First, values are communicated, both explicitly and implicitly, through symbolic behavior. Values are normally expressed

through verbal and nonverbal behaviors.

i.Verbal expressions are used to highlight the importance of specific values to individuals or groups. (e.g. Proverbs

demonstrate how verbal expressions are used to underscore values.)

ii.Nonverbally, we tend to communicate our values through social rituals. (e.g. The custom of exchanging gifts in China and Japan reflects the cultural values of reciprocity, generosity, and friendship.)

2.Second, the way in which people communicate is influenced by the value they hold. Because values determine what is

desirable and what is undesirable, they dictate the way we choose to act in the process of communication. (e.g. Harmony is a key Chinese cultural value leads the Chinese to avoid saying "no", to speak admiringly and respectfully of others, and to avoid expressing aggressive behaviors in social interactions.)

In other words, the values we hold influence our preference in selecting communication channels and sources that symbolize our value system. Thus, the relationship that exists between communication and values is both mutual and reciprocal.

Cultural Value Orientations

Definition of Value Orientations

Culture value orientation is the concept used to study the relationship between cultural values and communications

behaviors systematically. Value orientations are the means society uses to solve the universal problems of daily life

(Kluckhohn and Strodbeck, 1961). The concept implies four assumptions:

1.First, all human society will face the same problems.

2.Second, they use different means to solve universal problems.

3.Third, the means to address universal problems are limited.

4.Fourth, value orientations are behaviorably observable through empirical study (Condon & Yousef, 1975).

Models for the Study of Cultural Value Orientations (Compare and contrast the models of cultural value orientations developed by Kluckhohn and Strodbeck, Condon and Yousef, Hall, and Hofstede.)

The limitation of the models used for the study of cultural value orientations (They are neither exhaustive nor perfect, and each model has its strength and weakness. The cultural value orientations specified by Kluckhohn and

Strodbeck and by Condon and Yousef are meaningful only in combination. A change in any category influences the other categories.)

Kluckhohn and Strodbeck's Model

Kluckhohn and Strodbeck (1961) were pioneers in the study of cultural value orientations. They singled out five universal problems faced by all human societies and the cultural value orientations they represent, and three possible variations of the solution for each of them:

1.What is the character of innate human nature? (the human nature orientation: evil, mixture of good and evil, and

good)

2.What is the relationship of people to nature (the super-nature)? (the man-nature orientation: subjugation to

nature, harmony with nature, and mastery over nature)

3.What is the temporal focus of human life? (the time orientation: past, present, and future)

4.What is the modality of human activity? (the activity orientation: being, being-in-becoming, and doing)

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5.What is the modality of a person's relationship to other persons? (the relational orientation: lineality, collaternity,

and individualism)

Kluckhohn and Strodbeck's model serves as a classic model which is taken as the foundation of the study of cultural

value orientations by later scholars. Though it is precise and heuristic, the five categories of value orientations are far

too simple to describe complex human society.

Condon and Yousef's Model

Condon and Yousef (1975) revised and extended Kluckhohn and Strodbeck's five categories to include six spheres of

universal problems all human societies must face: the self, the family, society, human nature, nature, and the

supernatural. The six spheres intersect each other and are interdependent. Under each sphere the authors added

three to five orientations with three variations of the solution for each one.

Condon and Yousef's model makes an effort to refine Kluckhohn and Strodbeck's model, but the huge list of cultural

value orientations makes it impossible for any communication scholar to completely monitor each item in the space

of a lifetime.

Hall's Cultural Context Model

Hall (1976) divided cultural differences into two categories: low-context culture and high-context culture. In low-

context communication, the listener knows very little and must be told practically everything. (e.g. Germany, those in Scandinavia, Switzerland, and the United States ,orient mainly to the low-context culture.) In high-context

communication the listener is already "contexted" and does not need to be given much background information. (e.g.

China, England, France, Japan, and Korea orient to the high-context culture.)

Hall's model has been a major influence on the study of IC. Nevertheless, the dichotomous classification of high-

context and low-context cultures not only oversimplifies the complex nature of culture but also misleads students of

cultures. The similarities found between the two groups indicate that people of different cultures may share similar

values. All variations of cultural values may exist in any one society.

Schwartz

Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions

Hofstede (1980, 1983, 1984) compared work-related attitudes across over forty different cultures and found four

consistent dimensions of cultural values:

1.Individualism/collectivism /

The dimension of individualism and collectivism describes the relationship between the individual and the

group to which the person belongs.

i.Individualistic cultures stress the self and personal achievement. The individual in an individualistic culture

is treated as the most important element in any social setting. Personal goals super-cede group goals, and

competition is often encouraged in this culture.

ii.By contrast, collectivistic cultures are characterized by a more rigid social framework in which self-concept plays a less significant role in social interactions. Ingroup and outgroup members are clearly distinguished,

and only ingroup views and needs are emphasized. The social networks are much more fixed and less reliant

on individual initiative (Anderson, 1994).

2.Power distance

The dimension of power distance specifies to what extent a culture adapts to inequalities of power distribution in

relationships and organizations.

i.High-power-distance cultures tend to orient to authoritarianism, which dictates a hierarchical or vertical

structure of social relationships. In these cultures people are assumed to be unequal and complementary in

social interactions. The differences of age, sex, generation, and status are usually maximized. Thus, people in

high-power-distance cultures develop relationships with others based on various levels of hierarchy.

ii.Low-power-distance cultures are more horizontal in terms of social relationships. People in these cultures tend to minimize differences of age, sex, status, and roles. Instead, individual differences are encouraged.

Thus, they tend to be less formal and more direct in social interactions.

3.Uncertainty avoidance

The dimension of uncertainty avoidance measures the extent to which a culture can accept ambiguous situations

and tolerate uncertainty about the future.

i.Members of high-uncertainty-avoidance cultures always try to reduce the level of ambiguity and uncertainty

in social and organizational life. They pursue job and life security, avoid risk taking, resist changes, fear

failure, and seek behavioral rules that can be followed in interactions. As a result, high-uncertainty-avoidance

cultures tend to use fewer oral cues and are more able to predict others' behaviors.

ii.Low-uncertainty-avoidance cultures are oriented to cope with the stress and anxiety caused by ambiguous and uncertain situations. Members of these low-uncertainty-avoidance cultures tend to better tolerate the

deviant behaviors and unusual stress connected with the uncertainty and ambiguity. As a result, they take

more initiative, show greater flexibility, and feel more relaxed in interactions.

4.Masculinity/femininity /

The dimension of masculinity and femininity refers to the extent to which stereotypically masculine and feminine

traits prevail in the culture.

i.In masculine cultures men are expected to be dominant in the society and to show quality of ambition,

assertiveness, achievement, strength, competitiveness. In male-dominated cultures women are expected to

play the nurturing role.

ii.Members of feminine cultures tend to emphasize the quality of affection, compassion, emotion, nurturing, and sensitivity. Men in these cultures are not expected to be assertive. Thus, gender roles are more equal and

people are more capable of reading nonverbal cues and tolerating ambiguous situations.

Hofstede's model is especially applicable to the understanding of cultural values in social and organizational settings.

The weaknesses of the model are threefold:

1.Because the questionnaire respondents were middle managers in multinational companies, the dimensions

Hofstede identified are work-related values.

2.Among the four dimensions only individualism/collectivism has been widely studied and validated. However,

research has documented that some persons in individualistic societies are collectively oriented, and the reverse

is true as well. The other three dimensions have yet to be validated. "/"

3.The concepts of nation and culture are not clearly differentiated (Mead, 1990; Samovar & Porter, 1995).

Discuss how cultural value orientations affect human communication.

Research Highlights

The Challenge of Diversity in Global Organizations

Managerial Attitudes Toward Decision Making: North America and Japan

Chinese Conflict Management and Resolution: Overview and Implications

Cultural Assumptions of East and West: Japan and the United States P37

The Role of Values in IC P44

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Chapter 4

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It consists of five areas of study: Morphology, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics. Semantics and pragmatics directly affect the process of IC.

Human language has four characteristics: (1)It's symbolic; (2)It's rule-governed; (3)It's subjective; (4)It often shows change and variation. Language is a bridge people can use to learn or understand cultural values, and it's necessary to comprehend cultural values to acquire the language used to portray them. In other words, to be competent in IC we need to be aware of both the cultural values and the language expressions of our cultural counterparts.

Chapter 5

Verbal and nonverbal communication form the two main contexts of human communication.

Nonverbal communication is different from verbal communication in five respects:

1. It's not consciously controllable

2. It can indicate multiple events simultaneously

3. It can be used as an intercultural or international language

4. It's learned earlier in our life.

5. It's more emotional in expression

Five functions of nonverbal communication: repetition, replacement, emphasis, contradiction, regulation.

Characteristics of nonverbal communication: Nonverbal communication is less systemized and more culturally bound, and its meanings are always ambiguous.

1. Kinesics is the study of body movements such as facial expressions, eye contact, hand gestures, and touch.

2. Proxemics is the study of how human beings and animals use space in communication.

3. Paralanguage refers to how we use voice dimensions: voice quality, vocal characterizers, vocal qualifiers, and vocal segregates.

4. Chronemics is the study of how we perceive the concept of time and how that affects our communication.

Nonverbal communication and culture are closely interrelated in two ways:

First, our nonverbal behaviors are dictated by our culture;

Second, culture determines when it's appropriate time for us to display nonverbal behaviors.

We can improve our intercultural skills in nonverbal communication by following Ricard's five-step model for the development of nonverbal skills:

1. Assess our learning needs

2. Observe similar situations

3. Use appropriate resources

4. Reach tentative conclusions

5. Reevaluate our conclusions as necessary.

Chapter 6

We develop relationships to meet the social needs of inclusion, control, and affection.

Human relationship has five characteristics:

1. It's dynamic

2. It's hierarchical

3. It's reciprocal

4. It's unique

5. It's interdependent and irreplaceable

Theories of relationship development:

1. Social Exchange Theory: Social interaction relationship initiates after measuring the difference between reward and costs.

2. Social Penetration Theory: The development of human relationships is determined by the information we disclose to our partner.

3. Uncertainty Reduction Theory: This theory posits that interpersonal relationships develop and progress when we are able to reduce

4. Communication Accommodation Theory: It combines propositions from speech accommodation theory and ethno-linguistic identity theory to examine the communicative moves interactants make in social and psychological contexts and how it's related to pers onal characteristics.

Yum's five categories of relationship are used to illustrate the impact of cultural variability on relationship development. The five categories are particularism/universalism, long-term/short-term, in-group/out-group, formal/informal, and personal/public relationships. The influence of cultural value differences are also discussed from the following perspectives: verbal/nonverbal differences, background and attitude information, and the degree of self-disclosure.

Third-Culture-Building: five phases of third-culture building are explicated: intrapersonal intracultural communication, interpersonal IC, rhetorical IC, metacultural communication, and intracultural communication.

Chapter 7

Conflicts are inevitable in the process of IC. To have unpleasant feelings during conflict is universal. Conflicts can be considered as several levels: intrapersonal conflict, interpersonal conflict, intergroup conflict, and inter-organizational conflict.

The impact of culture on conflict and conflict management are discussed from three perspectives: 1. Thinking patterns; 2. Language barriers; 3. Cultural context.

The factors that affect our reactions and decisions in a conflict situation are delineated: face, interrelation, favor, seniority, status, power, credibility, interest, severity of the conflict, and gender.

Two methods for the effective management of intercultural conflicts are suggested.

The first method is based on Harris and Moran's model of conflict management, which includes five steps: 1.Describe the confl ict in a way understood in both cultures; 2,Analyze the conflict from both cultural perspectives; 3.Identify the basis for the conflict from two culural viewpoints; 4.Solve the conflict through synergistic strategies; 5.Determine if the solution is working interculturally.

The second method is based on Ting-Toomey's suggestions for handling c onflicts in individualistic and collectivistic cultures.

Chapter 8

Increasing contact among people from different cultures around the global demands understanding of the process of intercultural adaptation. Intercultural adaptation refers broadly to the process of increasing our level of fitness to meet the demands of a new cultural environment. It deals with how sojourners or new immigrants experience the distress caused by mismatches or incompatibility between the host culture and the culture of birth. In other words, intercultural adaptation is a process of dealing with maladjustment within a host culture.

What's Culture shock?

from the processing of stressful situations, especially attempts to establish and maintain a relationship with those of the host culture.

Six aspects of Culture shock:

1. A feeling of strain that comes from our attempts at psychological adjustments

2. A feeling of loss regarding friends and family, social status, and possessions

3. A feeling of being rejected by or rejecting the host nationals

4. A feeling of confusion in beliefs, values, and role expectations

5. A generalized feeling of anxiety, disgust, or surprise in the face of cultural differences

6. A feeling of importance for being unable to cope with aspects of the new environment.

Forms of culture shock:

Language shock, role shock, transition shock, culture shock, culture fatigue, education shock, adjustment stress, and culture distance.

Symptoms of culture shock:

Depression, helplessness, hostility to the host country, feelings of anxiety, over-identification with our home country, feelings of withdrawal, homesickness, loneliness, paranoid feelings, preoccupation with cleanliness, irritability, confusion, disorientation, isolation, tension, need to establish continuity, defensiveness, intolerance of ambiguity, and impatience.

Positive effects of culture shock:

1. It provides a learning opportunity that demands new responses from sojourners in coping with a constantly changing environment.

2. It can create an environment and serve as a motivational force for us to move to new levels of self-actualization.

3. It can give sojourners a welcome sense of challenge and achievement as a result of dealing with people from very different backgrounds.

4. The amount of learning increases when the level of personal anxiety is aroused to a certain degree.

5. The experience from culture shock produces new ideas

6. This practice helps us to deal with cultures that we have not yet experienced.

Negative effects of culture shock:

1. Affectively, culture shock constitutes an imbalancing experience

2. Cognitively and perceptually, a set of desirable or proper behaviors in one culture might be considered strange in another.

U-curve pattern of intercultural adaptation is comprised of four stages: 1.Honeymoon period; 2.Crisis period; 3.Adjustment period;

4.Biculturalism period.

W-curve pattern is also used to explicate the reentry adaptation process.

A dialectical model:

1. Intercultural adaptation is a motivated, goal-oriented process

2.The intercultural adaptation and learning processes are reciprocal and interdependent

3.Intercultural adaptation implies a stranger-host relationship

4,Intercultural adaptation is a cyclical, continuous, and interactive process

5.Intercultural adaptation is ongoing

6.Intercultural adaptation implies personal development.

A transformative learning model: It consists of three dimensions: the precondition to change, the process, and the outcome.

Chapter 10

Intercultural understanding is absolutely vital for people to lead harmonious and meaningful lives together in a culturally pluralistic world.

Four strategies of diversity management for organizations:

1.Managing and rewarding performance based on the foundation of diversity

2.Matching people and jobs

3.Keeping employees informed and involved

4.Supporting diverse work styles and life needs.

Four significant issues regarding multicultural education are considered:

1.Exposure to multicultural perspectives

2.Maintaining cultural identity

3.Developing IC skills

4.Diversifying the curriculum

Seven stages of the process of multiculturalism:

1.Monoculturalism

2.Cross-cultural contact

3.Cultural conflict

5.Disequilibrium

6.Awareness

7.Multiculturalism

Intercultural sensitivity is a dynamic and a multidimensional concept describing individual's active desire to motivate thems elves to understand, appreciate, and accept differences among cultures.

The effective way to develop intercultural sensitivity is to take intercultural training process. It aims to develop an appreciation and understanding of cross-cultural differences and to some of the necessary abilities.

Components of Intercultural sensitivity: Ethno-relativism, respect for cultural differences, adaptability, perspective-taking, open-mindedness, and acknowledgment of other's needs.

Chapter 11

Only with mastery of IC competence can persons from different cultures communicate effectively and appropriately.

What's competence?

Competence is defined as an organization's capacity to interact effectively with its environment or as the acquired ability t o interact effectively.

Communication competence is comprised of two elements: effectiveness and appropriateness.

IC competence is defined as the ability to effectively and appropriately execute communication behaviors to elicit a desired response in a specific environment.

IC competence has four dimensions:

1.Personality attributes: Including self-concept, self-disclosure, self-awareness, social relaxation

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/604488921.html,munication skills: message skills, behavioral flexibility, interaction management, social skills

3.Psychological adjustment: it refers to the ability to acclimate to a new culture

4.Cultural awareness: refers to understanding the conventions of the host culture that affect how people think and behave.

Chapter 12

Goals of intercultural training: We must develop the ability to expand our worldview by increasing our understanding of culture and its impact on communication behaviors; enhance our ability to recognize and appreciate cultural similarities and differences; and further improve our skills of IC. Only through the process of intercultural training can we effectively achieve these goals.

Six training models: the classroom model, the simulation model, the self-awareness model, the cultural awareness model, the behavioral model, the interactional model.

Five common techniques used in the training models: role playing, case studies, critical incidents, cultural assimilators, simulations, examines the procedures used to evaluate intercultural training programs.

Chapter 13

Ethics can be defined as the science of judging human ends and the relationship of means to those ends, and the art of controlling means so that they will serve specially human ends.

Theories of Ethical study:

Universalism vs. Relativism, Objectivism vs. Subjectivism, Attitudinalism vs. Consequentialism, Deontologism vs. Teleologism.

Principles of ethical IC:

Mutuality, Nonjudgmentalism, Honesty, Respect.

Ethical rules for IC:

1.Promote voluntary participation in the interaction

2.Seek individual focus prior to cultural focus

3.Maintain the right to freedom from harm

4.Accept the right to privacy of thought and action

5.Avoid imposing personal biases

The discussion of the future of IC is divided into three parts.

1.Increasing or decreasing IC is discussed from domestic and international perspectives.

3.The future study of IC is explained from three perspectives: education, business, and research.

传播学概论复习笔记

传播学概论复习笔记 一、名词解释 1、什么就是传播:传播即就是社会信息得传递或社会信息系统得运行。 2、刻板成见: 人们持有得固定、简单化得观念印象,通常伴随着价值评价与好恶 感情。 3、拟态环境:指信息环境,它并不就是现实环境得“镜子”式得再现,而就是传播 媒介通过象征性时间或信息进行选择与加工,重新选择得结果。 4、传播情境概念:指得就是对特定得传播行为直接或间接影响得外部事物、条件 或因素得总称,它包括具体得传播活动(如二人对话)进行得场景,如什么时间、什么地点、有无她人在场等;在广义上,传播情境也包括传播行为得参与人所处得群体、组织、制度、规范、语言、文化等较大得环境。 5、群体规范:群体意识得核心内容。指得就是成员个人在群体活动中必须遵守得 规则,在广义上也包括群体价值,即群体成员关于就是非好坏得判断标准。 6、集合行为:在某种刺激条件下发生得非常态社会集合现象。 7、媒介接近权:媒介接近权即一般社会成员利用传播媒介阐述主张、发表言论以 及开展各种社会与文化活动得权利,同时,这项权利也赋予了传播应该向受众开放得义务与责任。媒介接近权得核心内容就是要求传媒必须向受众开放。 8、子弹论:传播媒介拥有不可抵抗得力量,它们所传递得信息在受传者身上就像 子弹击中躯体,药剂注入皮肤一样,可以引起直接速效得反应;它们能够左右人们得态度与意见甚至直接支配她们得行动。 9、传播流:所谓“传播流”指得就是由大众传媒发出得信息经过各种中间环节, “流”向传播对象得社会过程。传播流(研究三部曲有“拉扎斯菲尔德等人得《人们得选择》、卡兹等人得《个人影响》、罗杰斯得《创新与普及》、)以及克拉帕得《大众传播效果》。 10、休眠效果:低可信度信源发出得信息,由于信源可信度得负影响,其内容本 身得说服力不能得到立即发挥,而就是处于一种睡眠状态,经过一段时间这种负影响减弱或消失后,其效果才能充分表现出来。 11、意见领袖:在传播学中,活跃在人际传播网络中,经常为她人提供信息、观 点或意见并对她人施加个人影响得人物称为“意见领袖”。 12、信息社会:所谓信息社会,指得就是信息成为与物质与能源同等重要得甚 至比之更加重要得资源,整个社会得政治、经济与文化以信息为核心价值而得到发展得社会。 13、知沟假说:大众传播得信息传达活动无论对社会经济地位高者还就是低 者都会带来知识量得增加,但由于社会经济地位高得人获得信息与知识得速度大大快于后者,随着时间得推移,最终结果就是两者之间得“知沟”不断变宽,差距不断扩大。

跨文化交际与翻译

Intercultural communication and translation Intercultural communication mainly refers to the communication between the native speakers and non-native speakers, as well as the communication between people who differ in any aspect of language or culture background. Due to the differences in surroundings, societies and religions of different ethnic groups, each language community results in its own code of language, social culture, customs and practices and so on. Intercultural communication studies situations when people from different culture backgrounds interact. Aside from language, IC focuses on social attributes, thought patterns and the cultures of different groups of people. IC also involves understanding the different cultures, languages and customs of people from other countries. There are three formats of IC: interracial communication (when source and receiver are different races), interethnic communication (situation in which the parties are of the same race but of different ethnic origins) and intracultural communication (communication between members of the same culture including racial, ethnic and other co-cultures). The term translation itself has several meanings: it can refer to the general subject field, the product (the text that has been translated) or the process (the act of producing the translation, otherwise known as translating). The process of translating between two different written languages involves the translator changing an original written text (the source text) in the original verbal language (the source language) into a written text (the target text) in a different verbal language (the target language). This type corresponds to “interlingual translation” and is one of the three Roman Jakobson in his seminal paper. Jakobson’s categories are: 1. Intralingual translation, or “rewording”– an interpretation of verbal signs by means of other signs of the same language; 2. Interlingual translation, or “translation proper”–an interpretation of verbal signs by means of some other language; 3. Intersemiotic translation, or “transmutation”– an interpretation of verbal signs by means of signs of non-verbal sign systems. Intralingual translation would occur when we rephrase an expression or text in the same language to explain or clarify something we might have said or written. Intersemiotic translation would occur if a written text were translated, for example, into music, film or painting. It is interlingual translation which is the traditional, although by no means exclusive, focus of translation studies. It is easily seen that the three forms of intercultural communication and the three types of translation are partly corresponding to each other, especially interracial communication and interlingual translation which both attach attention on the communication between native and non-native, and where different cultures of different countries play more important role. To conduct effective intercultural communication, one has to understand the differences between the different nations and then to look for them and pay attention to in every cross-cultural communication situation. By doing this, the high-context communicators can learn to use and respond words, emotions, postures differently, and low-context communicators can learn to

跨文化交际知识点

跨文化交际知识点: 1.L.S.Hams认为,在世界范围内的交际经历了五个阶段:语言的产生、文字的使用、印刷术的发明、近百年交通工具的进步和通讯手段的迅速发展、跨文化交际。近20年来的交际是以跨文化交际为特征的。 2.跨文化交际学首先在美国兴起,与人类学、心理学、传播学关系密切。 3.Edwar Hall《无声的语言》是跨文化交际的奠基之作。 4.1970年,国际传播学会承认跨文化交际学是传播学的一个分支,成立了跨文化交际学分会。 5.1972年,第一届跨文化交际学国际会议在日本东京召开。 6.70年代影响最大的书籍是《跨文化交际学选读》。 7.Jenny Thomas《跨文化语用失误》:语用—语言失误;社交—语用失误。 8.前苏联的跨文化交际学主要表现在国情语言学方面。 9.传播种类:(1)人类传播①社会传播A交集传播B组织传播C大众传播②非社会传播(2)非人类传播 10.早期影响最大的传播模式是Harold Lasswell提出的5w模式。即who、say what、in what channel、to whom、with what rffects。 11.1949年Claude Shannon和Warren Weaver共同提出了线性模式,增加了“噪音”(干扰因素),把媒介分解。 12.50年代,Charles Osgood和Wilbur Schramm提出循环式的模式,加入“反馈”。 13.社会学家Jack Lyle与M.Lyle把传播过程看作是社会过程之一,特点是把传播放在社会环境中考察。 14.我国最早的辞书《尔雅》。 15.萨丕尔—沃尔夫假说基于对印第安语的研究。 16.red caipet treatment用红毯接待red-light district红灯区red flags提高警惕预防出事的状况in the red赤字 17.politics—“中性”含贬义,为争权夺利不惜采取各种手段的意思;政治—“中性”,实际用时有褒义。 18.intellectual—致力于研究的人,衍生出纸上谈兵的贬义;知识分子—受过大学教育的脑力劳动者。 19.peasant—没有受过教育,举止粗鲁、思想狭隘的人;农民—直接从事农业生产劳动的人。 20.dragon—表示罪恶、邪恶,令人感到恐怖,战争的旗帜,形容人指飞扬跋扈令人讨厌;龙—用于好的意思。 21.phoenix—“再生”、“复活”;凤凰—天下太平,有圣德的人。 22.owl—智慧的鸟,比喻人聪明;猫头鹰—不详之鸟。 23.peacock—通常是贬义,含有骄傲、炫耀、洋洋得意的意思;孔雀—吉祥的象征,大吉大利。 24.dog—中性褒义的情况多;狗—一般用于贬义。 25.Cinderella(灰姑娘)泛指不受重视的人或部门或指有才干但一时未被赏识的人。 26.Shylock(夏洛克)指心肠狠毒唯利是图的小人。 27.to meet one’s Waterloo遭到决定性失败 28.Catch-22进退维谷,左右为难 29.韩国人写文章—归纳法;美国人写文章—演绎法。 30.美国人的思维模式是“桥式”,直接明白地传达给对方。 31.日本人的思维方式是“垫脚石式”,采取迂回、隐含的手法。 32.非语言交际的特点:(1)没有正式的规则和模式,没有固定的结构(2)没有一套具有明确意义的符号(3)有连续性的(4)一部分是本能,一部分是后天习得(5)信息右脑处理 33.阿拉伯人在讲话时总是盯着对方的眼睛。 34.将手掌平放在脖子下面,中国指杀头,英国指吃饱了。 35.食指和中指轻叩桌面,广东指感谢,北方表示不耐烦。 36.美国人站在公路旁边伸出拇指(thunb a ride)表示希望搭车。 37.英美人把中指放在食指上面(let’s keep our fingers crossed.)表示希望某事成功。 38.手兜起来,放在耳后,表示听不见或听不清楚。

(完整word版)跨文化交际教学大纲

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二、课程教学要求 该课程教学要求学生提高对文化差异的敏感性, 更有效地与外国人进行交际,为英语专业课程的学习和翻译实践能力的提高奠定基础。 三、先修课程 跨文化交际是英语专业的必修课, 是在完成了精读、泛读、综合英语、写作等基本技能训练后开设的,旨在增强文化差异的敏感性,增强跨文化交际意识,有助于英语专业课程的学习和翻译实践能力的提高。因此,学生先期完成英语听说读写等技能训练基本课程,如《基础英语》、《英国文学选读》等课程。 四、课程教学重、难点 该课程教学重点在于培养学生对英语国家文化的 2

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跨文化交际基础知识 【复习指南】 这部分内容主要涉及跨文化交际的基本理论及较为常见的日常交际礼仪,在选择题、填空题、判断题中所占比例较少,但与案例分析部分紧密结合;建议考生复习此块内容时,注意相关理论概念在实际案例中的运用。考生可重点看胡文仲《跨文化交际学》或吴为善的《跨文化概论》,这两本书对于跨文化交际的基本概念、基础理论等都有全面介绍。 【知识点归纳】 1.重点概念: (1)文化:culture,涉及内容十分广泛,不同研究者有不同定义。 广义文化:指人类社会实践过程中所获得的物质、精神的生产能力和创造的物质、精神财富的总和。 狭义文化:精神生产能力和精神产品,包括一切社会意识形式;自然科学、技术科学、社会意识形式。英国人类学家泰勒1871年在《原始文化》中提到的定义影响很大。 总的来说,文化是人类社会创造的财富,包括食物、器具,也包括信念、价值观、习俗、知识。可分为物质文化、制度文化和观念文化。 其特性是:人类独有;来自后天习得;大部分存在于人的潜意识;是行动的指南;动态,与一定历史时期相联系。 (2)交际:就是人与人之间的往来交际活动,文化在交际中得到发展与传播。跨文化交际中的交际主要指人际间通过语言等交际工具进行的直接或间接的信息交流和沟通活动。 (3)编码与解码 交际是一个编码和解码的过程;编码是把思想、感情、意识等编成语码的过程,解码是对外界接受的符号或信息赋予意义或进行解释的过程。

“他定势” 定势概念应用到跨文化交际上后,称为文化定势(又译文化定型或刻板印象),是指人们在跨文化交际研究或跨文化实际交往中对不同文化背景的民族和国家成员的笼统的、先验的看法。 (4)文化冲突 指两种或者两种以上的文化相互接触所产生的竞争和对抗状态。最早由由哈佛大学国际关系教授萨缪尔·亨廷顿(Samuel Huntington )在《文明的冲突与世界秩序的重建》中提出。 (5)文化曲解 不同民族、社区和集团的的文化,有不同的价值目标和价值取向,并且常常各自以自己的文化为优越,视其他文化为危险物;当其他文化在传播、接触的时候,便会有不顾客观事实歪曲原意或作错误理解。文化曲解既是文化冲突的诱发因素,也是文化冲突的表现。 (6)主流文化与亚文化 主流文化是一个社会、一个时代受到倡导的、起着主要影响、具有群体认同的文化。 亚文化(subculture):又称小文化、集体文化或副文化,指某一文化群体所属次级群体的成员共有的独特信念、价值观和生活习惯,与主文化相对应的那些非主流的、局部的文化现象。 (7)文化距离 是指不同文化之间的差异程度,主要包括语言方面的差异、生活习惯的差异、社会文化方面的差异等。 (8)文化休克 “文化休克”,Cultural Shock,是1958年美国人类学家奥博格(Kalvero Oberg)提出来的概念。是指一个人进入到不熟悉的文化环境时,因失去自己熟悉的所有社会交流的符号与手段而产生的一种迷失、疑惑、排斥甚至恐惧的感觉。 文化休克常见于移民当中或者是在一个社会内,不同文化背景的民族因文化生活环境发生根本性改变的时候。

《跨文化交际学概论》读后感

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核心价值而得到发展的社会。 a.社会经济主体由制造业转向以高新科技为核心的第三产业,即信息和知识产业占据主导地位; b.劳动力主体不再是机械的操作者而是信息的生产者和传播者; c.贸易不局限于国内,跨国贸易和全球贸易成为主流; d.交易结算不再主要依靠现金,而是信用。 3、哈特关于媒介系统的分类 A.哈特,根据传播媒介的发展史分类: 手段; 摄影等; —人类传播的媒介手段日趋丰富,人体的信息功能日益向外扩展,体外化信息系统逐渐获得相对独立的过程。 4、《后工业化社会的到来》和《第三次浪潮》 D.贝尔。把人类社会的发展进程分为前“工业社会”(农业社会)、“工业社会”(生产商品的社会)和“后工业社会”(以服务业为基础的社会)三大阶段。 A.托夫勒。人类社会已经经历两次变革浪潮,从原始社会向农业社会和从农业社会向工业社会。目前正迎来以信息革命为代表的第三次浪潮,必然会极大地改变现存的社会结构和社会生活。 5、二战后信息社会发展过程 50—80年代中期):报刊、广播、电视等大众传播媒介得到高度普及,个人媒介日趋多样化;②高度信息化阶段(80年代末—今):大众传媒进一步发达,广播电视进入数字化多频道和卫星跨国传播时代;微型电脑普及,成为个人综合信息处理的媒介;以计算机、互联网和多媒体为代表的新传播发展,使不同媒介出现融合的新趋势。 第三章 1、符号的定义和基本功能 a.表述和理解(人与人之间的传播活动首先表现为符号化和符号解读的过程); b.传达(作为精神内容的意义只有转换为一定物质形式的符号才能在时空中得到传播和保存); c.思考(即引发思维活动,思考首先要有对象及关于对象的知识,而这些都以符号形式存在于人的头脑中)。 2、象征符的特性 通过传统、学习继承;④可自由创造,与指代对象的关系具有随意性。 3、意义的定义 4、符号意义的分类 ;③指示性和区别性。 5、传播过程中的意义(符号本身之外) 使得不同的受众对同一种符号构成的信息会有不同的理解;

新编跨文化交际课后翻译中英对照

Translation1 The growth of intercultural communication as a field of study is based on a view of history that clearly demonstrates people and cultures have been troubled by a persistent inability to understand and get along with groups and societies removed by space, ideology, appearance, and behavior from their own. What is intriguing about many of human civilization’s failure is that they appear to be personal as well as global. The story of humankind is punctuated with instances of face-to-face conflicts as well as international misunderstanding--major and minor quarrels that range from simple name-calling to isolationism tr even armed conflict. It is obvious that increases contact with other cultures and subcultures make it imperative for us to make a concerted effort to understand and get along with people whose beliefs and backgrounds may be vastly different from our own. The ability, through increased awareness and understanding, to peacefully coexist with people who do not necessarily share our lifestyles or values could benefit us not only in our own neighborhoods but could be the decisive factor in maintaining would peace. 纵观历史,我们可以清楚地看到,各民族与文化由于彼此所处地域、意识形态、容貌服饰和行为举止上存在的差异,而长久无法互相理解,无法和睦相处。在这种情况下,跨文化交际作为一个特定的研究领域得以形成和发展。值得注意的是,人类文明在发展过程中所遭受的许多挫折,既是个人的,又是全球性的;人类历史进程总是充满了个人间的直接冲突和民族间的误解--从骂骂咧咧到孤立主义甚至到武装冲突,大大小小争端不绝。 很显然,文化间以及亚文化间的交往日益增多,这迫切要求我们共同努力,去理解与我们有着天壤之别信仰和文化背景的人们,并与之和睦相处。通过加深认识和理解,我们能够与生活方式、价值观念不同的人们和平共处;这不但有益于我们周遭环境的安定,也是维护世界和平的决定性因素。 Translation 2 Culture is something referred to as our mental programming, our “software of the mind.”But we can take that computer analogy further and say that culture is the operating environment that enables software programs to run. Culture is like DOS or Unix or Windows:it is what enables us to process information in various specific applications. The metaphor of windows seems to be very appealing to describe culture:culture is a mental set of windows through which all of life is viewed. It varies from individual to individual within a society, but it shares important characteristics with members of a society. Culture is like the water fish swim in--a reality that is taken for granted and rarely examined. It is in the air we breathe and is as necessary to our understanding of who we are as air is to our physical life. Culture is the property of a community people, not simply a characteristic of individuals. Societies are programmed by culture, and that programming comes from similar life experiences and similar interpretations of what those experiences mean. If culture is mental programming, it is also a mental map of reality. It tells us from early childhood what matters, what o prefer, what to avoid, and what to do. Culture also tells us what ought to be . It gives us assumptions about the ideal beyond what individuals may experience. It helps us in setting priorities. It establishes codes for behavior and provides

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