跨文化上午沟通双语ICBC复习.docxVIP

ICBC复习 选词填空12个空共12分 案例分析3道21分 简答5题32分 英译汉15分 120~150字英文作文20分 Part A：Culture The definition of culture 文化的定义 Culture is an integrated system of learned behavior patterns which are characteristic of the members of a society and which are not the result of biological inheritance. (Hoebel and Frost) Metaphors for culture文化隐喻/象征（简答） Culture is like an iceberg Culture is like an onion Culture is our software Culture is like the water a fish swims in Culture is the grammar of our behavior Iceberg: Culture above the waterline means the aspects of culture that are explicit, visible, taught. This includes how we behave, what we eat, the clothes we wear, how we speak, words we use, thousands of skills and the information conveyed through formal and informal lessons, etc. Example: paintings, food, dress, dance, architecture Culture below the waterline also called “hidden” culture: the habits, assumptions, understandings, values, judgments that we know but do not or cannot interpret in a direct way. Example: views, attitudes, hatred, habits, preference, love, custom. Case: One or Two In exchange for some U.S.- controlled land in West Germany, the German government agreed to construct a new facility at another military installation controlled by the U.S. Army. After the preliminary drawings were completed, a meeting was held with the German and American engineers and one translator. When a German engineer asked a question, the translator repeated the question in English; the American’s question was then translated back into German. A German asked a question about the maximum distance allowed two points that he had indicated in the drawing. The question was translated, and an American engineer quickly raised his hand with his index finger pointing upward and answered “one meter.” The translator, thinking no translation was necessary, remained silent. The German engineers wrote two meters in their notes; the Americans wrote one meter. The culture onion Culture in the outer laye