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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上跨文化交际期末考试复习题Define the following items:1. Culture: On the surface: customs and behavior More deeply: what the behavior and customs mean to the people who are following themIn a word: Culture is all about meanings Hall: Culture is everything and everywhere2. Communication:Communication i
2、s our ability to share our ideas and feelings. (the basis of all human contact)3. intercultural communication:Intercultural communication is communication between people whose cultural perceptions and symbol systems are distinct enough to alter the communication event. intercultural communication re
3、fers to any communication between two members of any cultural communities.4. high-context culture: In high-context messages, meaning is not necessarily contained in words. Information is provided through gestures, the use of space, and even silence. Meaning is also conveyed through status (age, sex,
4、 education, family background, title, and affiliation). 5. low-context culture:In low-context messages, the majority of the information is vested in the explicit code. 6. relationship between culture and language:7. verbal communication8. analytical thinking patterns (inductive)9. synthetic thinking
5、 patterns (deductive)10. nonverbal communication:Nonverbal communication involves all nonverbal stimuli in a communication setting that is generated by both the source and his or her use of the environment and that has potential message value for the source or receiver11. body language:Body language
6、 refers to all nonverbal codes which are associated with body movements.Body language includes gestures, head movements, facial expressions, eye behaviors, postures and other displays that can be used to communicate.12. monochronic time (M Time) :It schedules one event at a time. In these cultures t
7、ime is perceived as a linear structure just like a ribbon stretching from the past into the future.13. polychronic time (P Time):P-time schedules several activities at the same time. It is more flexible and more humanistic. People from P-time system emphasize the involvement of people more than sche
8、dules. They do not see appointments as ironclad commitments and often break them. 14. ethnocentrism:the view of things in which ones own group is the center of everything, and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it” (William G. Sumner)15. stereotypes:Stereotypes are a form of generaliz
9、ation about some group of people, or a means of organizing images into fixed and simple categories that are used to stand for the entire collection of people16. prejudice: It refers to negative attitudes towards other people that are based on faulty and inflexible stereotypes. It is an unfair, biase
10、d, or intolerant attitude towards another group of people. ( Lusting & Koester) 17. discrimination:It refers to the behavioral manifestations of the prejudice, it can be thought of as prejudice “in action”. ( Lusting & Koester)18. racism:19. culture shock: Troublesome feelings such as depression, lo
11、neliness, confusion, inadequacy, hostility, frustration, and tension, caused by the loss of familiar cues from the home culture. (Linell Davis)20. acculturation:It is culture change that results from continuous firsthand contact between two distinct cultural groups. It is through acculturation that
12、personal transformation from cultural contact takes place. Acculturation includes psychological, physiological and social changes.Essay Writing1. Describe your personal intercultural experiences in about 300-500 words.2. From the perspective of intercultural communication, analyze the following movies. (1) Joy Luck Club(2) Guasha(3) Crash专心-专注-专业