跨文化交际名词解释

跨文化交际名词解释 WTD standardization office【WTD 5AB- WTDK 08- WTD 2C】

名词解释1.Intercultural communication refers to communication between people whose culture

perceptions and symbol systems are distinct enough to alter the communication event.

跨文化交际:指拥有不同文化认知和符号体系的人文之间进行的交际。

2.Culture is a learned set of shared interpretations about beliefs, values, and norms, which

affect the behavior of a relatively large group of people.

文化是习得的一套关于信仰，价值观，规范的公认的解释，这些信仰，价值观，规范对相当大人类群体的行为产生影响。

3.Culture identity refers to one’s sense of belonging to a particular culture or ethnic group.

文化身份：指有意识地把自己归为某一特定文化或种族群体。

4.Subculture are formed by groups of people possessing characteristic traits that set apart

and distinguish them from others within a larger society or dominant culture.

亚文化:具有能在更大的一个社会范围内或主流文化中使自己有别于他人的特点的人类群体所形成的文化。

5.Norms are culturally ingrained principles of correct and incorrect behaviors which, if

broken carry a form of overt or covert penalty.

规范指的是正确和不正确行为根深蒂固的文化原则，这种不正确的行为一旦发

生，就意味着一种显性或隐性的处罚。

6.文化震荡Culture shock refers to the traumatic experience that an individual may

encounter when entering a different culture.人们在进入一种新文化环境时，遭遇的痛苦和难忘的经历。

7.人际交际interpersonal communication: a small number of individuals who are

interacting exclusively with one another and who therefore have the ability to adapt their messages specifically for those others and to obtain immediate interpretations from them.

指少数人之间的交往他们既能根据对方调整自己的信息，又能立即从对方那里获得解释。

8.世界观worldview :is the belief that we hold explaining the cosmos God, the nature of

humanity and nature.指我们持有的对宇宙，神，人本质及自然的最根本的看法。

9.Context :it’s the information that surrounds an event ,it is in extricably bound up with

the meaning of the event .

10.高语境文化High-context culture :it's a kind of culture in which people are very

homogeneous with regard to experiences ,information networks ,and the like ,.

Chinese ,Japanese

11.低语境文化Low-context culture :it's a kind of culture in which the population is less

homogeneous and therefore tends to compartmentalize interpersonal contacts ,.

American ,German

12.个人主义Individualism :broadly speaking ,individualism refers to the doctrine theater

the interests of the individual are of ought to be paramount ,and that all values ,rights and duties originate in individual s ,it emphasizes individual

initiative ,independence ,individual expression ,and even privacy .个人利益胜于集体利益

13.集体主义Collectivism: it is characterized by a rigid social framework that distinguish

between in-groups and out-groups .people expect their in-group to look after them ,and in exchange for that they fell they owe absolute loyalty to the group .collectivism means greater emphasis on (1)the views ,needs ,and goals of the in-groups rather than oneself ;

(2)social norms and duty defined by the in-group rather than behavior to get pleasure ;

(3)beliefs shared with the in-group; rather than beliefs that distinguish self from in group ;

and (4)great readiness to cooperate with in group membership .个人融入集体。

14.对不确定因素的回避态度：uncertainty avoidance deals with a society’s tolerance for

uncertainty and ambiguity ;it ultimately refers to man’s search for truth.是关于一个社会对不确定性和模棱两可的容忍程度。

15.权利距离power distance：组织或机构里边，没有权力的成员对于权力不均等分配

接受和期望的程度。