A comparative survey between Chinese culture and Western.pptVIP

柏树平bsp_abac@ A comparative survey between Chinese culture and Western culture Inter/Cross-cultural communication in English Course description: This course aims to raise students to the cross-cultural awareness in cross-cultural communication, subsuming the following objectives: to develop students’ sensitiveness, tolerance n flexibility in handling cross-cultural differences to develop cross-cultural communication competence in English Lecture 1:Background,definitions issues in cross-cultural communication Globalization n cross-cultural communication Inter- or cross-cultural? Global villager? Globalization, cross-cultural communication and us Who?when?where?what?how? 2.Definitions Definitions from different perspectives(p39-40) Ex:eating culture, religion b)Definition used for this course(P45) can be defined as the coherent, learned, shared view of a group of people about life’s concerns that ranks 3 characteristics of Culture Culture is coherent Culture is learned Culture is the view of a group of people Three things culture does Culture ranks what is important Culture furnishes attitudes Culture dictates how to behavior Definition of communication Elements of Communication Context 4 aspects: Physical setting Historical Psychological Culture(norms)规范 Participants Senders, receivers Factors affecting participants Relationship, gender, and culture Message Meanings Symbols Encoding n decoding Channels Route of travel+ means of transportation Sensory channels:sound, sight,smell, taste, touch, or any combination of them Noise External noise Internal noise Semantic noise Feedback