Topic 1 Culture, Communication and Intercultural Communication (跨文化交际).pptVIP

Intercultural Communication Orientation Week 1 Chapter 1 Culture, Communication, Intercultural communication Pre-class discussion Give an example of a(co)-cultural behavior that you do not understand. See if anyone in the class can explain it to you. Give an example of a behavior from your culture that someone from another culture might have difficulty in understanding. What is culture? What is communication? What is intercultural communication? The culture iceberg The culture onion What is culture? 1 Culture is ubiquitous, multidimensional and all-pervasive 2 Culture is a fast-moving train, which is closely connected with what is going on for the time being. (American) 3 Culture is closely related to the past.(Chinese) 4 life way of a population (contrasted with nature) ‘Culture’ Definition Please write down your version of culture in one sentence. The culture iceberg culture above the waterline (the aspects of culture that are explict, visible, taught) culture below the waterline =(the habits, assumptions, understandings, values, judgements that we know but do not or cannot interpret in a direct way) The culture onion culture in the outer layer (symbols) culture in the middle layer(values) culture in the inner nucleus layer(rooted in people) Discussion attitude towards family and marriage kinds of family, marriage partner, children, children education views on money and career richer, happier? ideal job Why do you have all those perceptions and thoughts? Who taught you? Who told you? Why can you accept them? Characteristics of culture Culture is shared Culture is learned Culture is symbolic Culture is intergrated Culture is dynamic Communication What is communication? 126 difinitions(Dance and Larson,1972) communication is the process by which people deliberately attempt to convery meanings to others(Samovar Porter,2003) Communication is unintentional, as they think communica