湖北工业大学英语专业 跨文化交际复习资料概要1.docVIP

跨文化交际复习资料 名词解释Globalization is worldwide interconnectedness, evidenced in global movements of natural resources, trade goods, human labor, finance capital, information, and infectious diseases. Intercultural communication is communication between people whose cultural perceptions and symbol systems are distinct enough to alter the communication event. The dominant culture is a type of culture that one group possesses the power to speak for the entire culture while setting the tone and agenda that others will usually follow. Co-cultures are cultures discussing groups or social communities exhibiting communication characteristics, perceptions, values, beliefs, and practices that are sufficiently different to distinguish them from other groups and communities and from the dominant culture. Communication is a dynamic process in which people attempt to share their internal states with other people through the use of symbols. Culture is a set of human-made objective and subjective elements that in the past have increased the probability of survival and resulted in satisfaction for the participants in an ecological niche, and thus became shared among those who could communicate with each other because they had a common language and they lived in the same time and place. Values are culturally defined standards of desirability, goodness, and beauty that serve as broad guidelines for social living.P25 Values are shared ideas about what is true, right, and beautiful which underline cultural patterns and guide society in response to the physical and social environment.P189 Stereotypes are a collection of false assumptions that people in all cultures make about the characteristics of members of various groups.P42 A stereotype is a cognitive structure containing the perceiver’s knowledge, beliefs, and experiences about some human social groups.P170 Objectivity is the state of being objective, just, unbiased and not influenced by emotions or personal prejudices.P43 Social organiz