英语跨文化交际实用教程Unit-1.pptVIP

Colors No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as reprinting the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached. A wedding ceremony A Wedding Ceremony A funeral Red paper bag containing money as a gift The red carpet: lay out the red carpet A red card for their marriage; or for his health VI. Case Study Who is to blame, Father or Daughter? A Chinese old man at the age of 60 went to Canada to see his daughter who stayed in the country for about eight years. Just for a kind of love to her father, the daughter asked her father to come and stayed with her family a few days. The father arrived happily, but left much earlier than expected so angrily. 1. You took the wrong chopsticks. 4. I should pay the ticket myself. 2. It’s none of your business. 3. Why are so late? The father was angry. He didn’t understand why his daughter was so hard that she did not have any human touch or not show any filial obedience for her father. She was successful in Canada. She had her own company. She had a good place of her own. Everything was perfect. To the father, his daughter seemed to forget about the close relation within the family. He said angrily: She is no longer my daughter. But who is to blame, Father or Daughter? VII. Summary Why take Intercultural Communication? Culture Communication Intercultural Communication The Difference between Chinese and Western Cultures VIII. Exercises 1. Matching the terms with their definitions A. culture B. communication C. ethnocentrism D. intercultural communication E. business communication 1.( ) The belief that your own cultural background, including ways of analyzing problems, values, beliefs, language, and verbal and nonverbal communication, is superior. 2.( ) Th