跨文化交际词语解析

●Intercultural communication means the communication

between people from different cultural backgrounds. It

occurs when a member of one culture produces a message

for consumption by a member of another culture.

●Compliment 1.a remark that shows you admire someone

or something. 2.to say something nice to someone in order

to praise them.

●Proverbs may provide interesting glimpses or clues to a

people’s geography, history, social organization, social

views, etc.

●Taboos a cultural or religious custom that does not allow

people to do, use or talk about a particular thing as people

find it offensive or embarrassing.

●M-time is noted for its emphasis on

schedules,segmentation and promptness.it features one

event at a time.

●P-time schedules several activities at the same time.It is

more flexible and more humanistic.

●Culture loaded words Culture -loaded words is mark

some culture unique things phrases and expressions.which

have meanings in the specific cultures.

●Culture assumption it refers to a guess between two

cultures which one person think something he has in his

culture ,and others should have the same meaning in their

culture too.

●Paralanguage it means the set of nonphonemic

properties of speech, such as speaking tempo,vocal

pitch,and intonational contours,that can be used to

communicate attitudes or other shades of meaning

●Verbal communication is a communication which people

communicate with others in their language.

●Non-verbal communication Exchange of information

through nonlinguistic signs or symbols.it is all external

stimuli other than spoken or written words and including

body motion.characteristics of appearance .voice and use

of space and distancing.

●Culture consists of patterns,explicit and implicit of and

for behavior acquired and transmitted by

symbols,constituting the distinctive achievement of

human groups, including their embodiments in

artifacts;the essential core of culture consists of traditional

ideas and especially their attached values;culture systems

may,on the one hand,be considered as products of

action,on the other hand,as conditioning influences upon

further action.

Gua Sha,a traditional Chinese medical treatment was unrecognized by American.The film is as well as a movie about the differences and conflicts between American and Chinese culture. There are so many cultural gaps shown in this movie. Ways of child education, ways of doing things,value of friendship and concept of familial affection, all of these Chinese traditions torture Da Tong, the leading role of this film, and his family during their assimilation into American culture.

Firstly, people have different ideas about the children education. In the eye of most Chinese, to hit their child is good for its development. In the film, to show respect to Kun Nan, to give him face, Da Tong is entitled to hit Dennis. But for Westerners, parents and children are all equal. Parents can seldom decide what the children should do or not do, they let them develop themselves by their own efforts.

The second typical difference is the way they do things. In the film it reflects on the way they choose lawyer.

At first they choose a lawyer who is not familiar with the family affairs. They do this because they have a typical Chinese belief that “acquaintance make things easy ” . This is a quite common belief for Chinese. But for Americans , they choose the proper one even if he is a strange.

The third typical difference is the value of friendship.The Chinese view of friendship,A friend in need is a friend indeed,even if we can go die for our friends.While i n the eye of most American, no matter how true your friendship,the law is the first place forever.

Da Tong, as a typical Chinese man, chooses to undertake his father’s fault in court rather than tell the truth. We Chinese can understand it , but for Americans it’s quite unacceptable. In their views, one must stand on his own feet, so everyone must take his own responsibility, at the same time , one must tell the truth in court. So Da Tong is wrong. But we Chinese can understand him. As a traditional Chinese son, he should to undertake his father’s fault in such case.

Fortunately, as we communicate more, more understanding and appreciation is between us.