跨文化交际culture-文档资料

合集下载
  1. 1、下载文档前请自行甄别文档内容的完整性,平台不提供额外的编辑、内容补充、找答案等附加服务。
  2. 2、"仅部分预览"的文档,不可在线预览部分如存在完整性等问题,可反馈申请退款(可完整预览的文档不适用该条件!)。
  3. 3、如文档侵犯您的权益,请联系客服反馈,我们会尽快为您处理(人工客服工作时间:9:00-18:30)。
9
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.
13
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.
16
14
Summary
• Culture involves at least three components:
1. the material and spiritual products people produce
2. what they do 3. what they think
15
Metaphors for Culture
• 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
Greek culture Egyptian culture Chinese culture Babylon
11
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.
– Illegal as the child abuse
6
• 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
10
From Anthropologic Perspective
• Culture is "the civilizations and achievements of a particular time or people." This is an anthropologist's definition.
8
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).
culture.
2
百度文库
3
4
5
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
7
• 3. How did Sunwukong in A Journey to the West represent the traditional Chinese values and ethics?
– Warmhearted, compassionate, perseverant – Bad-tempered, violent
music
exhibition dance
Picasso
Beethoven
12
From Psychological Perspective
• Culture is an observable pattern of behavior which distinguishes the members of one category of people from another.
Unit 1: Culture
1
Teaching Objectives
• 1.To understand the definitions of culture. • 2. To know about the metaphors of culture. • 3. To learn about the characteristics of
相关文档
最新文档