新编跨文化交际学unit1-2.pptVIP

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 With 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. She became the first African winner in the contest’s 51-year history. Unit task Intercultural communication Review Part 1: Students’ activity Give a compliment to your friend’s new dress Make a comparison between the response of American people and Chinese people i Part 2: 1. When did intercultural communication occur? 2. What has accelerated the intercultural contact? Intercultural communication Passage 2 answer questions Passage 3 Summary Students’ activity Homework Introduction--- passage 2 1. How do you understand the sentence “culture is everything and everywhere.”? 2. How does culture determine and guide people’s communication behavior? 3. What values do inform a member of a culture? 4. What is worldview? 5. What does one’s 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 people’s communication 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 ridicule, and what types of