(完整版)跨文化交际英文版

munication is a dynamic, systematic process in which meanings are created and reflected in hum

an interaction with symbols.

2.Culture: The deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, actions, attitudes, meanings,

hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of universe, and artifacts acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.

3.Acculturations: occurs when a society undergoes drastic culture change under the influence of a more

dominant culture and society with which it has come in contact.

4.Intercultural communication:It is communication between people whose cultural perceptions and

symbols are distinct enough to alter the communication event.

5.co-culture: when talking about groups or social communities exhibiting communication characteristics,

perceptions, values, beliefs, and practices that are significantly different enough to distinguish them from the other groups, communities, and the dominant culture.

nguage is an organized, generally agreed on, learned symbol system used to represent the

experiences within a cultural community.

7.Perception: the process by which an individual selects, organizes, and information to create a

meaningful picture of the world.

8.Value: is an enduring belief that a specific mode of conduct or end-state of existence is personally or

socially preferable to another.

9.Culture patterns: refers to both the conditions that contribute to the way in which a people perceive

and think about the world, and the manner in which they live that world.

10.Collectivism:is characterized by a rigid social framework that distinguishes between in-groups and

out-groups.

11.Masculinity: is the extent to which the dominant values in a society are male oriented and associated

with ambitions, differentiated sex roles, achievements, acquisition of money and signs of manliness. 12.A high-context (HC) communication or message is one in which most of the information is either in

the physical context or internalized in the person, while very little is in the coded, explicit, transmitted part of the massage. A low-context (LC) communication is just the opposite; i.e., the mass of information is vested in the explicit code.

13.Context: the information that surrounds an event; it is inextricably bound up with the meaning of that

event.

14.World view is a culture’s orientation toward God, humanity, nature, questions of existence, the

universe and cosmos, life, moral and ethical reasoning, suffering, death, and other philosophical issues that influence how its members perceive their world.

15.Argot is a more or less private vocabulary peculiar to a co-cultural group, and a group must have an

argot if it is to be considered a co-culture.

16.Nonverbal communication involves all those nonverbal stimuli in a communication setting that are

generated by both the source and his or her use of the environment and that have potential message value for the source or receiver.

17.A learning style is a particular way that an individual receives and processes information.

18.Stereotyping is a complex form of categorization that mentally organizes our experiences and guides

our behavior toward a group of people.

19.Culture shock: when we are thrust into another culture and experience psychological and physical

discomfort from this contact we have become victims of culture shock.

20.Ethnocentrism: the belief that one’s culture is primary to all explanations of reality.