《跨文化交际英语实用教程》名词解释.docVIP

《跨文化交际英语实用教程》名词解释 Define the following terms:1. Culture: it refers to a learned set of shared interpretations about beliefs, values, norms and social practices, which affect the behaviors of a relatively large group of people. 文化：它是指一组学习者对信仰、价值观、规范和社会实践的共同理解，从而影响了一个相对大的群体的行为。 2. Intercultural communication: It is communication between people from different cultural backgrounds, or it refers to communication between people whose cultural perceptions and symbol systems are distinct enough to alter the communication event. 跨文化交际：它是来自不同文化背景的人们之间的交流，也就是说，人们的文化观念和符号系统之间的沟通是不同的，足以改变交际活动。3. Denotative meaning tends to be described as the definitional, literal, obvious or commonsense meaning of a word. 外延意义往往被描述为定义，文字，一个词明显或常识性的意义。4. Connotative meaning is used to refer to the socio-cultural associations of the word. 内涵意义是指词的社会文化协会。5. In case of inductive reasoning, one stores a number of specific instances and induces a general law or rule or conclusion that governs or subsumes the specific instances. 在归纳推理的情况下，一个存储一些特定的实例，并导致一般的法律或规则或 结论规范或包含的具体实例。6. Deductive reasoning is a movement from a generalization to specific instances: specific subsumed facts are inferred or deduced from a general principle. 演绎推理是一种运动从一个泛化的具体情况：具体包括事实推断或从一般原理推导。7. Analytical thinking patterns：analyze and dissect things into elements in order to understand them properly. The emphasis is upon the parts rather than the whole of things. 分析思维模式：对事物进行分析和剖析，以便理解它们。重点是对部分而不是整体的东西。8. Synthetic thinking patterns： synthesize elements into a unit, with the emphasis on the “whole”. 综合思维模式：将元素合成为一个单元，重点是“整体”。9. Verbal Communication ：refers to communication done both orally and in written language口头交流：指口头和书面语的交流10. Linguistic Determinism: is the idea that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought. 语言决定论：语言及其结构的限制，决定人类知识或思想的思想。11. Linguistic Relativity: holds that the structure of a language affects the ways in which its speakers are able to conceptualize their world. 语言