跨文化交际 作业论文

Term Paper Requirements for Intercultural Communication

篇幅：不少于400 words

格式：打印，Times New Roman字体, 小四号字，1.5倍行距

截止日期：6月12日15:30-16:00，DJ1-116

写作要求：从以下主题中选择一个写作，标题自拟，观点明确，思路清晰，论证充分

Topics:

1. What are the potential problems of intercultural

communication? Have you ever experienced any

intercultural communication barriers? If any, how do you deal with them?

2. “Culture is shared, learned behavior that is transmitted

by one generation to another.” What does this statement mean to you in terms of your own personal development?

3. Using examples from the English language, discuss how

the language offers insight into some cultural beliefs and attitudes of the British/American people.

4. Successful intercultural communication depends not only

on what we say and the manner in which we say it, but

also on the behavior we display. Use examples to support this statement.

The Potential Problems of Intercultural Communication

With the development of economic globalization,the potential problems of intercultural communication that arise in interactions between people from different cultures.

I have never experienced any intercultural communication barriers,but to learn the course of coss cultural communication.I have learned s lot of information about Intercultural Communication.As far as I am concerned,there are many problems in intercultural communication.Firstly,the language barrier is a major obstacle in cross-cultural communication.For example,two people from different countries, speaking different languages and knew nothing about each other's languages, even they can make use of means of communication such as gestures, figures, but because of the language barrier, the two sides is difficult to understand each other very well.

Secondly, non- verbal behavior information is fuzzy complex and unconscious.So it is difficult for us to understand other countries’ culture.

Thirdly, intercultural communication has other problems.For one,culture set which is used to organize and simplify the perception of others as a selection process. Cultural stereotype is often highly infectious, once formed, ingrained, will be in quite long period of time to be used in groups or individuals.And it affects information processing method, the problem simplistic, generalization and exaggerate.Even cultural stereotype is strong in an attempt to get the facts out.For another, cultural bias. It is often distorted, misleading in intercultural communication.What’s more,it is ethnocentrism.Ethnocentrism is a kind of thought culture is superior to other cultures, the broad sense is to members of other groups.It will lead to the speaker on the misrepresentations, misleading people to other groups to make false assumptions. Last but not least,the psychology of a stranger would make two strangers meet will