跨文化交际 期末复习资料

Part 1 Comprehensive Check （15*2）每课的练习A

Part 2 Multiple Choice （25*1）每课的练习E复习题的变体；另外请中看第五章

Part 3 E-C Translation（10*1）每课的练习C

Part 4 Term-matching（10*1）

Part 5 Multiple function（5*5）其中三道是简答题，两道是案例分析。

Terms/questions:

1. Economic globalization: the integration of national economies into the international economy through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows, migration, and the spread of technology.

2. Barber system

–Farming communities traded their surplus produce in exchange for products and services without the medium of money.

–Human society has always traded goods across great distances.

3. Global village：real time events 、the time and space compression

–All the different parts of the world form one community linked together by electronic communications, especially the Internet.

4. Melting-pot大熔炉: a socio-cultural assimilation of people of different backgrounds and nationalities.

5. Diversity: refers to the mix of people from various backgrounds in the labor force with a full mix of cultures and sub-cultures to which members belong.

6. Intercultural communication: refer to communication between people whose cultural backgrounds are distinct enough to alter their communication event. Perception

7. Culture: can been seen as shared knowledge, what people need to know in order to act appropriately in a given culture.

Culture: a learned set of shared interpretations about beliefs, values, and norms, which affect the behavior of a relatively large group of people

8. Enculturation(文化习得): all the activities of learning one’s culture are called enculturation

9. Acculturation(文化适应): the process which adopts the changes brought about by another culture and develops an increased similarity between the two cultures.

10. Ethnocentric(文化中心主义):the belief that your own cultural background is superior.

11. Communication: mean to share with or to make common, as in giving to another a part or share of your thoughts, hopes, and knowledge.

12. Components of Communication：

Source交际邀请

The source is the person with an idea he or she desires to communicate.

Encoding编码

Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), humans are not able to share thoughts directly. Your communication is in the form of a symbol representing the idea you desire to communicate. Encoding is the process of putting an idea into a symbol.

Message编码信息

The term message identifies the encoded thought. Encoding is the process, the verb; the message is the resulting object.

Channel交际渠道

The term channel is used technically to refer to the means by which the encoded message is transmitted. The channel or medium, then, may be print, electronic, or the light and sound waves of the face-to-face communication.