【资料】跨文化交际culture汇编

Three Ingredients
1. artifacts 2. behavior 3. concepts (beliefs, values, world views…) e.g. Whereas the money is considered an
artifact, the actual spending and saving of the money is behavior. Then the value placed on it is a concept.
From Intercultural Communication Perspective
• Culture is a learned set of shared interpretations about beliefs, values, and norms, which affect the behavior of a relatively large group of people.
The aspects of culture that are explicit, visible, taught.
The aspects of culture that are intangible and not taught directly.
• Just as an iceberg which has a visible section above the waterline and a larger invisible section below the waterline, culture has some aspects that are observable and others that can only be suspected and imagined.
Summary
• Culture involves at least three components:
1. the material and spiritual products people produce
2. what they do 3. what the来自百度文库 think
Metaphors for Culture
– Illegal as the child abuse
• 2. What is a good friend in Chinese and American culture?
– Be loyal to each other and never betray even to lie
– Be honest and constructive and helpful
Greek culture Egyptian culture Chinese culture Babylon
From Intellectual Perspective
• According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, culture is "the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively". It refers to intellectual perspective, such as music, art, exhibition, dance, etc. When you talk about Picasso, Beethoven, etc., you are talking about culture.
music
exhibition dance
Picasso
Beethoven
From Psychological Perspective
• Culture is an observable pattern of behavior which distinguishes the members of one category of people from another.
From Anthropologic Perspective
• Culture is "the civilizations and achievements of a particular time or people." This is an anthropologist's definition.
跨文化交际culture
Warm – up Questions
• 1. How did Chinese and American perceive Parents’ beating their own child differently?
– To show respect to the other or give the face to the other
• By examining the metaphors for culture, we are going to figure out the prominent characteristics of culture.
1. The Cultural Iceberg 2. The Culture Onion
• 3. How did Sunwukong in A Journey to the West represent the traditional Chinese values and ethics?
– Warmhearted, compassionate, perseverant – Bad-tempered, violent
Definition of Culture
• Culture is ubiquitous, multi-dimensional and all-pervasive, as we have it almost anywhere and anytime.
• So what is culture? It is estimated that there are more than 164 definitions of culture. We are trying to examine the three ingredients of culture to reach an consensus (pg. 5-6).