Lecture1跨文化交际.pptVIP

9- Introduction to Intercultural Communication Lectured by Xu Mingwu Necessity of learning this course Our global village: If the world was a village of 1,000 people: In the village would be: 590 Asians 123 Africans 95 Europeans 84 Latin Americans 55 Former Soviet Union Members 53 North Americans They would speak: 155 Mandarin 53 Russian 26 Malay-Indonesian 80 English 35 Arabic 21 German 63 Hindi 33 Bengali 22 Japanese 61 Spanish 31 Portuguese 22 French 398 Other languages There would be: 329 Christians (187 Catholics, 67 Protestants, 75 others ) 178 Muslims 60 Buddhists 301 Nonreligious, or others Necessity of learning this course Challenge of living in a culture mixing Approaches to Study of Intercultural Competence The trait approach The perceptual approach The behavioral approach The culture-specific approach The trait approach It attempts to identify the kinds of personality characteristics and individual traits that allow a person to avoid failure and achieve success in intercultural encounters. Those who have explored this approach have examined such characteristics as flexibility in thinking, world-mindness (which is a positive attitude toward people of other cultures), psychological and social adjustment in one’s own culture, and relativistic values (which means not being too rigid about the “correctness” of one’s value). A failed approach The perceptual approach It attempts to identify clusters of attitudes or perceptions that are related to intercultural competence (the ability to deal with psychological stress, to communicate effectively, and to establish interpersonal relationships) This approach underscores the importance of the emotional or motivational dimension in the skillful enactment of competent behaviors. The behavioral approach It suggests that it is necessary to go beyond what people think they will do in i