Chapter 1 An Introduction to Intercultural Communication

跨文化交际选修课课件

By Sarah Zhao– SCAU Fall, 2013

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Intercultural Communication 赵勇 Sarah@sarahzhaoyong (http://) 307122371@http://

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Intercultural CommunicationGrading Policy Final exam: 50% Attendance: 5% Group work: 25% (4次) Homework:20% (3次) (参阅学校文件)

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Intercultural CommunicationCourse materials: Handout. (￥2.0) Recommended textbooks: ) a.《跨文化交际视听说》–高等教育出版社 b. Doing Culture– Cross-cultural Communication in Action -- by Linell Davis (US) (《中西文化之鉴》—外语教学与研究出版社) c.《跨文化交际实用教程》by胡超—外语教学与研究出版社

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Intercultural Communication Pair work: Please discuss the following questions with your neighbor. What is intercultural communication? Can you give any examples? What do you expect to learn from this course? or Why do you choose this course?

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Intercultural Communication Warm-up activity: Let’s enjoy a video clip and then answer: What movie is this video clip from? What went wrong in the video clip? Why did that happen? Is the communication intercultural? WHY?

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Intercultural Communication

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Intercultural Communication Intercultural communication (IC) ≈ cross-cultural communication Intercultural communication occurs whenever there is communication between people from different cultural backgrounds. what happened on the Silk Road, Marco Polo’s stay in China, Zheng He’s seven voyages to the Western Seas… As a discipline, IC started in the 1960s in the US.

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Intercultural Communication More examples of intercultural communication: Reading a novel which is written by a foreigner. Watching a movie/TV program that is made by foreigners. Question: Do you think your communication with your parents/classmates/teacher… is intercultural communication? What is culture?

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What is culture? Please come to the blackboard and write whatever you think that is/belongs to culture. Music, architectures, the arts Philosophy, history, literature Beliefs, customs, values, worldview Everything that is human-made Traditional Chinese medicine Chinese kungfu, Peking Opera, Chinese cuisines

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What is culture? Definition of culture: Culture refers to the total way of living of particular groups of people. It includes everything that a group of people think, say, do, and make. Culture is a whole collection of our living patterns and behaviors.

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Behavior What people do

What is culture?

feelings and attitudes about how things are and how they should be.

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What is culture? Classifications of culture: Mainstream culture主流文化 Sub-culture亚文化 Christian/ Confucian culture Western culture/ Eastern culture knowledge culture:知识文化： Communication culture:交际文化：lo

ver/爱人;狗急跳墙，狗眼看人低， Every dog has its day. He’s a lost dog.

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This course is about: Classifications of culture: Mainstream culture主流文化 Sub-culture亚文化 Christian/ Confucian culture Western culture/ Eastern culture Intellectual culture:知识文化： Communicative culture:交际文化：lover/爱人;狗急跳墙，狗眼看人低， Every dog has its day. He’s a lost dog.

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What is culture? Please read the Handout“What is culture?” and try to find out the similarities between culture and iceberg, software, water, grammar. Culture is like an iceberg. Culture is our software. Culture is like the water a fish swims in. Culture is the grammar of our behavior.

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What is culture? Culture is like an iceberg, only some of it is visible.Behavior What people do

feelings and attitudes about how things are and how they should be.