大学跨文化交际Unit_2_Daily_Verbal_communication_I

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?What would happen if the Chinese are invited to dinner by the westerner?
?What would happen if the westerner visitors are in a Chinese home for dinner?
Visiting Someone
Meals
To show hospitality:
far more than can be eaten at
The quantity and
the time
variety of the meal
relate the meal size more accurately to the people's
Intercultural Communication
Unit 2 Daily Communication(I)
Culture is a Bridge.
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Teaching Objectives
?1.To understand how language and culture are closely linked
? I haven' t seen you for a long time. I was wondering whether I could come round to visit you sometime.
? I'd like to come and see you sometime. Would you be free one afternoon next week?
?Verbal intercultural communication happens when people from different cultural backgrounds communicate with each other by using language.
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appetite constantly put the best piece of
At the table
food on the visitor's plate
leave the guests to help
themselves and do not keep urging
them to eat more
? Mr. asked me to call him…
appointment
Notify in advance
? In America any visit, whether it is to see a doctor, a professor, a friend and even a relative, is usually arranged by appointment. This is the courtesy to be observed. When an American is making an appointment, he/she tries to be polite, and leaves room for the other party to refuse if not convenient.
demonstrate politeness in
very genuinely.
seeming not to wish to put their
host to any trouble.
Sometimes an offer is not a Their refusal is accepted as
real offer but a polite remark. genuine.
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Showing Hospitality in Different Ways
Chinese
Westerners
Chinese guests always refuse Westerners always accept or
offer of drinks or food to
refuse offer of drinks or food
After we say ‘no', weusually
wait for the second and third
offer. If the host just brings the
food or drink and ignores ‘no',
we ill accept it.
Westerners don't to press. To press people to have food or drink after
Verbal intercultural communication
?“verbal” (pg. 17) means “consisting o words”. Language, spoken or written, is a means of verbal communication.
?Verbal communication refers to the communication that is carried either in oral or in written form with the use of words.
Appointment (pg. 29)
? Questions: ?1. What is the timing for Richard make
an appointment?
? Is it too early…?
?2. How did Richard make an appointment politely?
?2. To understand pragmatics in intercultural Communication
?3. Identify the cultural differences in addressing, greeting, conversational topics, visiting, parting, compliment and response, gratitude and apology.