全面的跨文化交际课件

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Feedback is essential to good communication 5
5. Characteristics of communication
1. What is culture?
On the surface: customs and behavior More deeply: what the behavior and customs mean to the people who are following them
In a word: Culture is all about meanings
intercultural communication refers to any communication between two members of any cultural communities.
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Intercultural Communication Vs
Cross-cultural Communication
Hall: Culture is everything and everywhere
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4. What is Communication?
• It comes from the Latin word “communicare”, it
means to give or to exchange. Now, the most common meaning of “communication” is to give or exchange information or ideas. • Communication is our ability to share our ideas and feelings. (the basis of all human contact) • Communication is a dynamic, systematic process in which meanings are created and reflected in human interaction with symbols. (J.T.Wood)
• Cross-cultural communication the similarities and differences in value orientations, affective dispositions, relationship management, communicative styles (psychological process)
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6. Intercultural Communication
• Samovar & Porter
Intercultural communication is communication between people whose cultural perceptions and symbol systems are distinct enough to alter the communication event.
and decoding) • Channels (sound, sight, smell, taste, touch) • Noise (external noise, internal noise,
semantic noise) • feedback
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Mode of Communication
Linear Model of Communication
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Is this an effective model of communication?
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Interactive Model of Communication
• 1) Communication is dynamic
• 2) Communication is interactive
• 3) Communication is irreversible
• 4) Communication takes place in both a physical and social context.
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Elements of communication
• Context (location, time, light, temperature, seating arrangements)
• Participants (relationship, gender, culture) • Messages (meanings, symbols, encoding
discuss with your partner: what do they mean to you?
• Human beings draw close to one another by their common nature, but habits and customs keep them apart. ---- Confucian saying
• Intercultural communication the penetration by a member of one culture into another culture (practical significance)
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Warm-up: Read the following sayings aloud, and
• One man’s meat is another man’s poison. ---- English proverb
• God gave to every people a cup, cup of clay, and from this cup they drank life… They all dipped in the water, but their cups were different. ---- R. Benedict