跨文化交际期末复.doc

PAGE PAGE 10 跨文化交际期末复习 Unit1 Term interpretation Economic globalization 经济全球化 The integration of national economics of national economics into the international economy through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows, migration, and the spread of the technology. Barter System 物物交换 Farming communities traded their surplus produce in exchange for products and services without the medium of money Global Village地球村 All the different parts of the world from one community linked together by electronic communications, especially the Internet. Melting pot大熔炉 To assimilate the cultures of different backgrounds Cultural Diversity文化多样性 Countries have been mixed instead of assimilate Brief Answer 1.What are the four trends that lead to the development of the global village? 1)convenient transportation systems 2)Innovative communication systems 3)Economic globalization 4)widespread migration 2.What are the three aspects where the cultural differences exist?(选择) 1)verbal difference; language, thought patterns 2)Non-verbal communication; body-language, time concept, spacious language, paralanguage… 3)values; world views, beliefs, attitudes… Unit 1 后半 Term interpretation Culture Culture can be seen as shared knowledge, what people need to know in order to act appropriately in a given culture Enculturation 文化习得 The process of learning one’s own culture Acculturation 文化适应 Adapt the cultures learning by the other cultures Ps：文化习得，文化适应需要对比 Ethnocentrism 文化中心主义 Think your culture is superior to the others Brief Answer What are the three ingreduents of culture? Products, behaviors, and ideas. How to understand cultural iceberg? Culture like an iceberg can be divided into two parts: culture above the waterline and culture below the waterline. Culture above the waterline is explicit, visible, tangible, easy to change with time, a tip of the iceberg. Culture below the waterline is implicit, invisible, intangible, hard to change with time, the majority What are the characteristic