跨文化交际学考试名词解释.docVIP

跨文化交际学题型名词解释整理： Intercultural communication :intercultural communication is a face-to-face communication between people from different cultural back-grounds . Intracultural communication :intracultural communication can be defined as the extent to which there is shared interpersonal communication between members of the same culture –whether this is in the majority .or within minority cultures . Individualism :broadly speaking ,individualism refers to the doctrine theater the interests of the individual are of ought to be paramount ,and that all values ,rights and duties originate in individual s ,it emphasizes individual initiative ,independence ,individual expression ,and even privacy . Collectivism: it is characterized by a rigid social framework that distinguish between in-groups and out-groups .people expect their in-group to look after them ,and in exchange for that they fell they owe absolute loyalty to the group .collectivism means greater emphasis on (1)the views ,needs ,and goals of the in-groups rather than oneself ; (2)social norms and duty defined by the in-group rather than behavior to get pleasure ; (3)beliefs shared with the in-group; rather than beliefs that distinguish self from ingroup ; and (4)great readiness to cooperate with ingroup membership . Power distance :it’s the extent to which a society accepts that power in relationships ,institutions, and organizations is distributed unequally . Context :it’s the information that surrounds an event ,it is in extricably bound up with the meaning of the event . High-context communication :it is a kind of communication in which most of the information is already in the person ; while very little is in the coded ,explicitly transmitted part of the message ,e.g.,Chinese ,Japanese Low-context communication :it’s just the opposite of high-context communication . it’s the mass of information is rested in the explicit code ,e.g. American German High-context culture :its a kind of culture in which people are