ccc8 cultureloaded words 跨文化交际 crosscultural communication 教学课件.ppt

--Pay Attention to Your Words;Case 1 Shoes for Street Walking ;;More Cases ;Please don’t feed the animals. If you have suitable food, please give it to the guard. 不要喂动物，有好吃的请给看守人吃。 If you have suitable food, please give it to the guard and let him/her feed the animal. ;这个女孩很纯洁。;;;Many times when I talk with a Chinese friend there will be some difficult word or expression that they are not sure about. Usually they will tell me the word and then ask, How do I say that? Usually my answer is, With your mouth. In English, 怎么做某事，can only be understood in a literal way. What they should ask is “How do I express that in English?” How do you think about it? 你是怎么想的？ I think about it with my brain. 我用我的大脑想。 What do you think about it? ;Being from Canada I tend to prefer cooler weather. One particularly hot day I walked into the classroom and one student, seeing how sweaty I was, commented, teacher, you look so hot. Some students understood the double meaning of hot and laughed. What she could have said was: you must be uncomfortable in this heat. In English the word hot of means 热. But in spoken English, hot also means very attractive, or sexy, so never say someone looks hot unless you really like them. ;One time I let my university writing class write about dating and their thoughts on the matter. One student wrote about her boyfriend: Tina was painful when her boyfriend left her. Somehow I knew this wasn’t her meaning; in English “was painful” usually means “was painful to be around” [令人痛苦的], thus making her sentence meanTina和她的男朋友分手的时候我真受不了她，跟她一起我很受罪。 What she meant to was: Tina was upset/in pain when her boyfriend left her. ;;A student of mine once came up to me after class and told me about some trouble he was having with the class. His next sentence took me by surprise though: teacher, don’t expect me too much. I told him that he shouldn’t skip class just because he was having difficulties. It was then that I found out his meaning was: don’t expect too much of me.