新编跨文化交际学unit 1-2

1、Intercultural communicationReview Part 1: Students activityGive a compliment to your friends new dressMake a comparison between the response of American people and Chinese people iPart 2: 1. When did intercultural communication occur? 2. What has accelerated the intercultural contact?Intercultural c

2、ommunicationPassage 2 answer questions Passage 3 SummaryStudents activityHomework Introduction- passage 21. How do you understand the sentence “culture is everything and everywhere.”?2. How does culture determine and guide peoples communication behavior?3. What values do inform a member of a culture

3、?4. What is worldview?5. What does ones family teach him or her while he or she grows up in it?1. How do you understand the sentence “culture is everything and everywhere.”? culture supplies what the world looks like and how you live and communicate 2. How does culture determine and guide peoples co

4、mmunication behavior?dress, toys, eat, gods to worship, money and time ; world looks, sounds, tastes and feels the way it does ; criterion of perception, dominant role in live, and foundation of language. 3. What values do inform a member of a culture?dying for, protecting, frighten, study and for r

5、idicule, and what types of events lead individuals to group solidarity4. What is worldview?Cultural orientationGod, nature, life, death, the universe, the meaning of life and with “being”, how you view other people, how you spend your time, reflect on a moment on how your concepts of death, illness,

6、 and the environment direct the choices you make and the goals you seek. Diverse concepts produce different choices and behaviors. 5. What does ones family teach him or her while he or she grows up in it?Teach the child what the world looks like and his or her place in that world. SummaryCulture val

7、uesworldwideSocial organizationReligions philosophyGod, nature, life, Death, The meaning Of life, “being” Dying for, protecting,frighten, ridiculePerception and behavior institutions Family and governmentPassage 3Why is it impossible to separate our use of language from our culture?Whats the differe

8、nce of the word “dog” between eastern countries and western countries?What are the other actions people attach meaning to?How can a free, culturally diverse society exist?1. Why is it impossible to separate our use of language from our culture?a form of preserving culture；a means of sharing culture.

9、 Language is an organized, generally agreed-upon, learned symbol system that is used to represent the experiences within a cultural community.2. Whats the difference of the word “dog” between eastern countries and western countries?In China and Korea, dogs are considered a culinary delight and often

10、 are eaten; in the US ，“dog” conveys a quite different meaning than it does in China. 3. What are the other actions people attach meaning to?Gestures, postures, facial expressions, eye contact and gaze, touch, concepts of time and space e.g. bow Ghana and Turkeysitting with ones legs crossed is extr

11、emely offensive. Thailandthe bottoms of the feet should never be pointed at a person avoid stomping Mediterranean cultures exaggerate signs of grief or sadness the USwhite males often suppress the desire to show these emotions. Japanese men go so far as to hide expressions of anger, sorrow, or disgu

12、st by laughing or smiling. Concepts and uses of time in western cultureslineal-spatial terms, Americans are time-bound , the Germans and the Swiss American Indians MexicoAfricaTardy, a slower pace is valueda slow pace is valued, “people who rush are suspected of trying to cheat.Arabs and Latins inte

13、ract more closely North Americans Chinesesit facing or at right angles to one another generally prefer side-by-side seating The Chinese report said The American students were much self-confident and independent. Their teachers encouraged them to do so instead of correcting them. The pupils knew limi

14、ted vocabulary and solved mathematics problems with their fingers, but they all had a strong desire for great inventions. In class, students were free to walk from seat to seat, talking without being controlled. The American report saidThe students sat on seats with their hands on the back. The teac

15、hers just talked and talked for several periods having no time for water. The students had much assignment called homework. Those who had the highest score would be prized as “Three Good Students” with certificates.The Chinese students in class 4. How can a free, culturally diverse society exist?A f

16、ree, culturally diverse society can exist only if diversity is permitted to flourish without prejudice and discrimination, both of which harm all members of the village.iSummarylanguage a means of sharing culture a form of preserving culture generally agreed-upon Intercultural communicationlearned s

17、ymbol system SummaryWhat are the other actions people attach meaning to?Gestures, postures, facial expressions, eye contact and gaze, touch, concepts of time and space How can a free, culturally diverse society exist?flourish without prejudice and discriminationSummaryIntercultural communicationDeba

18、te topic: Slim Is Beautiful?students activityWith the great influence of American culture across the world, the standard of a beauty is becoming more and more Hollywood-like, characterized by a chin and a tall, slim figure. One can see such beautiful images in almost any American movie. We Chinese also share that with the process of globalization, eastern and western beauties look more and more like. The most Beautiful Girl of 2001, Agbani Darego, went on to clinch the Miss World title in Sun City, South Africa.