跨文化交際考试重点总结.doc

UNIT1 Objectives ? This course aims at leading students to a general understanding of the complexities of intercultural communication and providing them with a cultural perspective in dealing with the common problems in intercultural communication. With the help of the this course the learners will: ?11. Come to see how culture influences our interaction with? people of different cultural groups; 2. Increase their cross-cultural awareness; 3. Learn to predict and solve possible problems in intercultural communication; 4. Overcome cultural barriers in EFL learning and teaching; 5. Better understand and appreciate the Chinese people, Chinese language and Chinese culture. 2课程的目的和主要任务 本课程主要介绍跨文化交际学的基本概念和基本理论，重点学习东西方文化在感知方面（包括价值观、世界观、和宗教观等）、言语方面（包括言语交际模式、交际风格、交际策略及思维方式）和非言语交际方面（包括体态语言等）异同。宗旨是培养学生跨文化交际意识，了解和掌握跨文化交际基本理论和基本内容，提高跨文化交际能力。3 5Chapter1??Introductionto Intercultural????? Communication Intercultural communication as a human activity The history of communication between people of different cultural backgrounds is almost as long as human history itself. 6The mergence and conflicts between the primitive nomadic tribes, the visits of sailors to alien lands, the bargains of merchants along the silk roads during Tang Dynasty, they are all examples of intercultural communication, not to say the ever-heated interaction of high officials at the United Nations since the establish of the organization and the ever-growing wave of tourists into all corners of the world. In deed, intercultural communication as a human activity has existed for centuries. 7Today the development of science and???? technology has literally? shrunk the world into?? a “global village”, where people of different colors and languages can get in touch with each other easily.???? 82. Intercultural communication as a field of study ?? Communication can bring people together, but culture may keep them apart. Even within one and the same country, understanding between different racial and ethic groups is no