网络环境下的跨文化交际.pdfVIP

Contents Chapter One Introduction 5 1.1 Research objectives 5 1.2 Organization of the thesis 6 Chapter Two New Dimension for Communication 7 2.1 Birth and rise of computer network 7 2.2 Literature review of computer network’s impact 9 2.3 Communication in virtual world and in conventional mode 12 Chapter Three Virtual World and Cross-cultural Communication 16 3.1 Perceptual refinement: a new channel 16 3.2 Changes of communication behavior 18 3.2.1 Synchronism and asynchronism18 3.2.2 Sense and text 20 3.2.3 Reality and imaginariness 20 Chapter Four Interaction in Virtual World 22 4.1 Verbal messages 22 4.1.1 Informality 22 4.1.2 Jargons 24 4.1.3 Simplification 25 4.2 Non-verbal features 28 4.2.1 Functions of non-verbal features in virtual world 28 4.2.2 Non-verbal manifestations 29 4.3 Implication 31 Chapter Five Problems and Challenges 32 5.1 Cultural globalization and cultural identity 32 5.2 Linguistic alienation 33 5.3 Information Pollution 34 Conclusion 36 Bibliography 37 Appendix 39 Internet Timeline 39 2 Abstract The thesis is a tentative discussion concerning the relationship between cross-cultural communication in the real world and communication in the virtual world. In recent years, the fast developing Internet has facilitated people’s cross-cultural communication. It has endowed human communication