UnitCulturalDifferencesinVerbalCommunication费下-公开课件.pptVIP

Cultural Differences in Verbal Communication In this part you are expected to understand some commonly observed differences between English and Chinese verbal communication and learn to make cross-cultural comparisons and analysis in the following aspects: Cultural differences on lexical level Cultural differences on syntactic level Cultural differences on discourse level EFL and language transfer Cultural differences on pragmatic level Cultural Differences on Lexical Level 1. Types of Lexical Meaning 2 types: denotation and connotation. Denotation: the conceptual meaning of the word that d