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Chapter One Introduction to Intercultural Communication Human being draw close to one another by their common culture, but habits and customs keep them apart. Confucian Saying 1. Definition ：Intercultural Communication is communication between people whose cultural perceptions and symbol systems are distinct enough to alter the communication event. 2. A short history of intercultural communication 2.1 The Burgeoning Period The term “Intercultural communication ”not appear until Hall itself did ’s The silent language was published in 1959. 2.2 From 1960 to 1970 a. Two preventative books reflect the continuous efforts made by scholars in the field in the 1960 b. Olive ’s Culture and Communication (1962) and Smith ’s Communication and Culture (1966) c. The first college class in this field taught in 1966 at the University of Pittsburgh. 2.3 From 1971 to 1980 a. The 1970s witnessed rapid development in the field of intercultural communication. b. In 1973, Samovar and Porter published Intercultural Communication: A reader c. Indiana University awarded the first doctoral degree in intercultural communication. d. Condon and Yousef ’s Introduction to Intercultural Communication (1975) 2.4 From 1981 to the Present Time a. Condon and Yousef ’s stress on cultural value orientations and communication behavior parallels b. Hofstede ’s (1984) later work on cultural values c .Hall ’s writing on high-context and low-context cultures in Beyond Culture (1977). d. Scholars in the early 1970s began to make their contributions in research and teaching by the 1980s. 3. Importance of Intercultural Communication Three developments 3.1 Th