大学英语跨文化复习重点.doc

Chapter 1 Culture Culture(from intellectual perspective):从知性角度定义文化：作为整体人类智力成就艺术和其他表现 Culture(from anthropologic perspective)：从人类学角度定义文化：文化有清晰和模糊行为模式构成，这些模式通过符号获得并传播， 这些符号有人类群体特别成就构成，包括具体人工制品。文化根本核心由传统思想和与其相关价值观构成。 Culture(from psychological perspective) : 从心理学角度定义文化：文化是使一个人类群体成员区别于其他人类群体思维总体规划。 Culture(from sociological perspective): 从社会学角度定义文化：文化是一种可习得，基于群体认知模式包括言语与非言语符号，态度，价值观，信仰和非信仰系统以及行为。 Culture(from intercultural communication perspective): 从跨文化交际学角度定义文化： 文化是个人和群体在种族开展过程中所获得知识，经历，信仰，价值观，行为，态度，阶级，宗教，时间观，角色，空间观和艺术品集合。 Culture Identity: 文化身份：认为自己归属于某一文化或民族群体感觉。 Subculture亚文化：指存在于主流文化中文化，其划分通常基于经济地位，社会阶层，民族，种族或地理区域。 Co-culture 共文化指具有独特交际特征，感知特点，价值观，信仰和行为，区别于其他群体，社团以及主流文化群体或社团。 Subgroup 亚群体相对于亚文化和共文化群体，亚群体通常规模不大，也不一定有文化群体时代相传积累价值观念和行为模式。 Chapter 2 Communication and Intercultural Communication 1. Sender/Source信息发出者/信息源：指传递信息人 2. Message信息： 只引起信息承受者反响任何信号。 3. Encoding: 编码：之信息发出者选择言语或用非言语方式发出有目信息行为。 4. Channel/Medium渠道/媒介： 只发送信息方法 5. Receiver:信息承受者：指注意到信息并且赋予信息某些含义人 6. Decoding: 解码： 指信息承受者赋予其受到言语或符号信息意义行为。 7. Feedback: 反响“ 指信息承受者对信息源信息所作出反响。 8. Noise: 干扰：指阻碍信息交流各种因素。包括外界干扰，生理干扰，心理干扰和语义干扰。 9. Context: 语境，指交际发生环境，包括自然语境，社会语境和人际语境。 10. Intercultural communication: 跨文化交际， 指是那些在卫华人之和符号系统上存在差异人们之间交际。这些差异足以改变整个交际事件。 11. International communication: 国际交流，指发生在国家和政府之间而非发生在个人之间交际， 此种交际非常正式和仪式化。 12. Interracial communication: 跨种族交际，指交流信息信息源和信息承受者来自不同种族交际。 13. Interethnic communication: 跨民族交际：来自一个国家或文化内部不同民族群体人们之间交际。 14. Intercultural communication:文化内交际指统一文化内部成员之间交际。 Chapter 3 Cultures Influence on Perception 1. Sensation:感觉，是人们意识到周围环境神经过程。 2. Perception知觉： 是一种人们通过各种感觉来觉察事物，事件，任何人行为过程。它是解释感觉信息更为高价认知过程。 3. Selection:选择，是从周围选择刺激信息中筛选出所需要信息过程。 4. Organization组织： 是把从周围选择刺激信息，以一种有意义方式整理，组合过程。 5. Interpretation:释义， 是赋予感觉信息意义过程， 类似于解码过程。 Chapter 4 Intercultural Communication Barriers 1. Anxiety: 焦虑，当人们不知道如何迎合他人对自己期待，过多关注自己情绪以至不能全心投入到交际事物中去时，就会产生焦虑。 2. Uncertainty: 不确定，是指人们无法从认知角度去解释交际活动中自己或他人感觉及行为，这种认知角度解释能力欠缺是某种引起焦虑模糊情镜导致。 3. Assuming similarity instead of difference: 假定一致性， 是指认为来自另一文化他人和自己相似或他人处境与自己处境相似，儿事实上却并非如此。 4. Ethnocentrism: 民族优越感，只从本国文化得标准出发，消极地审视另一文化。 5. Stereotypes: 文化定势，指基于明显或受到认可群体身份，对目标群体中个体成员所持有正面或反面判断。 6. Prejudice: 偏见，指对于某一特定群体，种族，宗教，或性取向无端地憎恶和疑心。 7. Racism: 种族主义，指基于种族把性格特点或地位归因于个人任意政策，做法，信仰或态度。 Chapter 5 Verbal Intercultural Communication Verbal intercultural communication: 来自不同文化北京人用言语进展交际即言语跨文化交际。 Dialect: 方言指某一群体特有语言，与整个群体言语不同。 Sociolect: 社会方言指由于社会阶级或言语分割不同而产生方言。 Pidgin: 洋泾浜；是一种特殊语言变体，指为贸易等目将两种或几种语言混合使用。 Creole: 当有人以洋泾浜为母语， 并成为某一地区永久语言时，它就成为克里奥尔语或混合语。 Lingua franca: 通用语指作为国际间交流手段一种特殊语言。 Taboo: 禁忌语指被制止或防止具有毛反省不礼貌行为。 Euphemism: 委婉语是替代具有毛反省不礼貌禁忌语词语。 Jargon: 行话是指演变而来专门或科技词汇，用以满足特殊职业特殊需要，例如医药或法律。 Chapter 6 Nonverbal Intercultural Communication Nonverbal communication: 非言语交际：不运用言语语言传递信息。 Proxemics : 时空行为是指对空间关系研究。 Chronemics: 时间行为是对于人们如何理解和利用时间研究。 Paralanguage: 为增强其含义，伴随言语语言产生可听到声音符号系统。 Olfactics: 气味行为： 研究气味对于交流影响学科 Oculesics: 目光语： 对于有眼睛所传达信息研究。不同文化对于交际时眼神接触有不同要求。 Haptics: 触觉行为：指通过身体接触来交流。 Chromatics: 色彩学：指对于影响人们人之，行为和他人印象色彩研究。 Kinesics: 身势语：指手势，面目表情，眼神交流，身体姿势，肢体运动和问候方式以及它们与交际关系。 Chapter 7 Cultural Patterns Cultural patterns: 文化模式是指相对稳定共有信仰，价值观，标准和社会实践，这些文化模式在相似情形下会使人产生相似行为。 Context: 语境是指事件发生时周围信息，对事件解读具有重要参考价值。 High Context Communication: 高语境交际是指在交际过程中大局部信息靠交际人本身传递，只有少量信息被明确地用语言形式传递。 Low Context Communication: 低语境交际是指大量信息通过明确语言编码被传递交际。 Uncertainty Avoidance: 不确定性躲避是指某一文化成员对不确定性因素躲避程度。 Power Distance: 权力距离是指机构或组织中权利较小成员对权力被不平等分配承受程度。 Chapter 8 Cultural Influences on Contexts Communication context: 交际语境，交际无法脱离外部环境影响， 所有人类交接都或多或少受到社会，物理和文化场景影响，这些场景成为交际语境。 Chapter 9 Intercultural Adaptation 1. Acculturation 文化适应：指人们学习和适应新文化社会标准和价值观念过程。 2. Assimilation 同化，指一个民族群体人们逐渐失去自己原有文化，承受新主流文化过程。 3. Integration 文化融合：指人们在文化适应过程中高度承受新主流文化，同时又保存了自己文化完整性。 4. Separation: 别离， 指人们在文化室内光影过程中对自己原有文化进展重新肯定认同，保存了原有文化，对新主流文化及与其相关微观文化不承受不认可。 5. Segregation: 隔离，当境界和政治上更强大新主流文化不承受人们与它进展文化接触， 人们就会被这种文化隔离在外。 6. Marginalization:边缘化， 指人们不但失去自己原有文化身份，而且无法融入新主流文化。 7. Culture shock: 文化冲击/休克， 指人们在进入一种新文化环境中遭遇痛苦和难忘经历。 8. Intercultural adaptation:跨文化适应指人们不断提高自己适应能力，以期到达新文化环境需要。 2. 判断 1.T The iceberg model of culture implies that it is very difficult to understand a culture thoroughly. 2.F Culture is innate as soon as a person is born. 3.T People may sometimes get confused about his or her cultural identity. 4.F Scholars prefer the term subculture to co-culture in describing a culture which exists within a dominant culture. 5.T A person could be a member of several different subgroups at the same time. 6.F Intercultural communication occurs when the sender and the receiver exchanging messages are from different races. 7.T Communication and culture are inseparable and strongly connected. 8.F The sender must choose certain words or nonverbal methods to send an intentional message. This activity is called decoding. 9.T The process of communication has nine components:sender,encoding,message, channel, noise, receiver, decoding, feedback, and context. 10.T No two of us can assume that our sensations are the same.Different stimuli can produce the same sensations. 11.T The same stimuli can produce very different sensations. 12.T Our perception are influenced by who we are, including the accumulation of our experience. 13.F We give meaning to or “decodethe information that we have selected and organized during the selection stage. 14.T The psychological filters refer to the psychological factors, including the attitudes, beliefs, and dispositions of the individual. 15.T Ethnocentrism, stereotyping, prejudice and racism are learned. 16.T Although stereotypes are considered as being negative judgments,they can also be positive. 17.T When communicating with people from other cultures,an individual sometimes is likely to treat them ashis peopleand to assume there is only one way of doing things:that ishis way. 18.F Assumption of superiority may lead to assuming similarity instead of difference. 19.F Industrialization is not the reason for the persistence of ethnocentrism,stereotyping,prejudice and racism. 20.F An exacting style of communication can be found in Japan,China,and some Native American cultures. 21.F The self-effacement verbal style emphasizes the importance of boasting about ones accomplishments and abilities. 22.T The elaborate,exacting,or succinct communication style deals with the quantity and/or volume of talk that is preferred across cultural groups. 23.T Dialect refers to geographic variation,while sociolect refers to variation in terms of social group. 24.T An elaborate style of communication can be seen in Arab cultures. 25.F Speaking is the only mode of effective communication. 26.F Chinese like to touch babies or small children,especially they like others to pat their childrens head. 27.T Saudi Arabs belong to touch cultures. 28.T The appropriateness of eye contact varies with different cultures. 29.T Paralanguage may imply the connotation of the actual words. 30.T Industrialized societies like the United States,the masteruy-over-nature view tends to predominate. 31.F The harmony-with-nature orientation draws chear distinctions among human life,nature,and the supernatural. 32.F Both Americans and British show respect for tradition. 33.T A doing orientation involves a focus on those types of activities which have outcomes that can be measured by someone else. 34.T In Being cultures,social status and position are more important than what a person does. 35.F In Saudi Arabia,greetings tend to be informal. Both men and women shake hands on meeting and leaving. 36.T In Finland,firm handshakes are the normal greeting for men and women. 37.T Americans might regard gift giving as a form of bribery. 38.F In Japan,one should open the gift in front of the giver. 39.T Mexican negotiators emphasize relational concerns prior to the real negotiation. 40.F Similarity of culture does not affect acculturation. 41.T Successful management of culture shock depends on an awareness of its symptoms and the degree of its severity. 42.F Similarity of culture does not affect acculturation. 43.T Successful management of culture shock depends on an awareness of its symptoms and the degree of its severity. 44.F The second stage of intercultural adaptation is called honeymoon stage or initial euphoria stage. 45.F All the activities of learning ones culture are called acculturation. 46.F Insomnia can be one example of the physical symptoms of culture shock. 47.T Financial matters can result in culture shock. 3. 简答 1. Emotional problems as barriers to intercultural communication a. Anxiety and uncertainty b. Assuming similarity instead of difference 2. Attitudinal problems as barriers to intercultural communication a. Ethnocentrism b. Stereotyping c. Prejudice d. Racism 3.Five dimensions of stereotypes a. Direction b. intensity c. specificity d. consensus e. accuracy 4.Reasons for the persistence of ethnocentrism,stereotyping,prejudice and racism？ a. Socialization b. social benefits c. economic benefits d. psychological benefits 5.Translation problems as language barriers a. Lack of vocabulary equivalence b. Lack of idiomatic equivalence c. Lack of grammatical-syntactical equivalence d. Lack of experiential equivalence e. Lack of conceptual equivalence 6.Verbal communication styles a. Direct and indirect styles b. Self-enhancement and self-effacement styles c. Elaborate,exacting and succinct styles d. Personal and contextual styles e. Instrumental and affective styles 7.Language diversity a. Dialects and sociolects b. pidgin and lingua franca c. taboo and euphemism d. jargon 8.Functions of nonverbal communication a. Repeating b. complementing c. substituting d. regulating e. contradicting 9.Edward T.Halls contextculture theory a. High-context culture b. low-context culture 10. Hofstedes dimensions of cultural variability a. individualism and collectivism b. uncertainty avoidance c. power distance d. masculinity and femininity 11.Business etiquette norms a. appointment seeking b. the data for business c. greeting behavior d. gift giving 12.Forms of culture shock a. language shock b. role shock c. transition shock d. culture fatigue e. education shock f. adjustment stress g. culture distance 13.Stages of intercultural adaptation a. U-curve pattern (a)honeymood period (b)crisis period (c)adjustment period (d)biculturalism period b. W-curve pattern 4. 案例 Case 34 What Is Sues Problem This case can reflect nonverbal intercultural communication should be according to the different context, too. Context refers to the actual setting when communication occurs and is also important in nonverbal communication. In this case, Sue knew how to wai and she knew that bowing was generally important in the Thai culture, but, as is so easy to do in a new environment, she forgot to consider the context. Relational hierarchy is very important in Thailand. Sues differential actions may have appropriate in certain settings, but given her status of elder visitor such actions directed toward the children were extremely confusing and uncomfortable for the students and teachers alike. 这个案例反映出非言语跨文化交际也应该根据不同语境。语境指是当交流发生时现场环境。它在非言语交流当中很重要。在这个案例中，Sue 知道如何去wai 并且她知道鞠躬在泰国文化中通常是很重要。但她在一个新环境中轻易就鞠躬，她忘了考虑语境。等级关系在泰国也很重要。Sue不同举动可能在一些环境当中是适宜。但是作为一个参观者，她向比她年龄小孩子做这样动作是十分让人学生们和教师们困惑和不舒服。 Case35 A Quarrel This case can reflect the different use and understanding of silence can influence the actual intercultural communication. Different culture might have different interpretations to the silence. The Eastern culture usually attaches more meanings to silence, while the most western cultures consider silence to be absence of communication and most rude communicative behavior. In this case, Li Hua wanted to provide the opportunity for them to calm down and think about the matters carefully and so she kept silence, while this silence was misunderstood by Smith as the absence of communication and he might think Li Hua looked down upon him and became angrier. 此案例反映出对沉默不同使用和理解能够影响现实跨文化交际。不同文化对沉默有着不同解读。东方文化通常赋予沉默更多意义，而西方文化通常认为沉默是交流缺失，是非常鲁莽交际行为。在此案例中，李华想要提供一个时机让他们冷静一下，仔细考虑一下事件，因此，她保持沉默。然而这种沉默被Smith误解为交流缺失。他可能认为李华看不起他，所以他变得更加愤怒。 Case 42 Wrong Signal Ning Tong was not observing the house rules for watching TV, which was probably why he eventually stopped saying anything in the argument. Usually, when a Chinese chooses not to say any more things in an argument, it would mean one or both of the following: the person feels that he/she is wrong; the person wants to stop the argument by not talking any more. The latter would often mean tolerance as one has to resist the impulse of reasoning with the other, especially when one feels he/she is right. When Ning Tong became quite, he was hoping that his silence could stop Tom since Tom would not have anything to respond to. Tom was clearly frustrated at not being able to relax and enjoy some programs connected with what is happening back home. Tom probably thought Ning Tongs decision to stop arguing was “passive aggression-making the other person look bad by pretending to be mild-mannered or even not interested-yet not yielding in an argument. 错误信号？ 宁童没有观察房子里看电视规那么，这就是为什么他最后在争辩中停顿说话。通常来说，一个中国人在辩论当中选择不再说话，这可能有如下理解：这个人觉得自己说是错；这个人想通过不说话来停顿争论。第二层意思可能意味着忍耐当一个人不得不抵抗和另一个人理论冲力，尤其当一个人感觉他/她是对时候。当宁童沉默时，他希望他沉默可以让Tom停下来因为Tom将没有什么话可以回应。 Tom感到非常为难当他不能放松并且欣赏节目。Tom可能认为宁童决定停顿争论是消极进攻-这能使另一个人看起来很坏通过假装态度温和或甚至是不感兴趣-但却又不能在争论中发飙。 Case 44 When Shall We Meet For Dinner Uncertainty avoidance orientation can be seen in this case. In the dialogue presented below, Kelly and Keiko are interacting about a dinner invitation. Kelly, from the United States, possesses a relatively low uncertainty avoidance index, while Keiko, from Japan, comes from a culture with a relatively high uncertaint