【毕业论文】跨文化交际中的社会关系.docVIP

【标题】?跨文化交际中的社会关系 【作者】罗 绮 【关键词】??跨文化交际??社会关系??文化差异 【指导老师】方 明 超 【专业】英语教育 【正文】1 IntroductionHuman beings have a long history of intercultural communication. According to recorded history, as early as 1792 B.C. there appeared intercultural communication. Though it took place in the form of purchasing the lackeys abroad. Wandering nomads, religious missionaries and travelers have been encountering people from different places. In Chinese history, the famous Silk Road is a perfect example of ancient intercultural communication. Marco Polo used to arrive in China from Italy; Chinese Buddhist monk Jian Zhen in Tang Dynasty went to Japan to transmit Chinese culture.Nowadays, international interaction has grown rapidly. Intercultural communication becomes more important, or even necessary. The development of communication and transportation technologies and the globalization of economy have proliferated the intercultural interaction. Marshall McLuhan predicted that boundaries of space and time would collapse under the impact of global electronic media. Just as he said:?“As electrically contracted, the globe is no more than a village.”?(Marshall McLuhan, 1964, p19-20)Marshall McLuhan’s global village prophecy has now become a reality. We can find out many examples and statistics to document how the world is like today. According to numerous researches, people have spent 75 percent of each day on communication all in life. King?(1987) used to compare the rankings of college-educated employees’ and employers’ lists of required on-the-job skills and found that among the 28 possible job skills written communication skills and informal oral communication skills were top ranked.?(Tubbs? Moss, 2000, p7)In the economic field, multinational or international incorporations have sprung-up in great number, such as Nestle, Coke Cola and British Petroleum.? Manufacturing has been globalized. The computer sold in Beijing may have been assembled in Japan from parts produced in