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《跨文化交际》复习要点

1.What levels does communication mainly include ?

2. What do you know about the high-contextual countries /people, and the low-contextual countries?

3. What do you know about the human nature?

4. What do you know about the Americans separate individuals? 5. What do you know about the formation of an English name?

6. What customs should we follow when we we are visiting our American friends ? 7. How to react to American compliments? How to begin English compliments and Chinese compliments? (“I”\\”You”)

8. What conversational topics can we discuss when we are communicating with westerners?

9.How do Americans and Chinese accept/refuse gifts ?

10.How do Americans and Chinese make friends activities (Americans); personal relationship (Chinese)

11.Is it true that people from South America, Arab countries, and many Asian countries have a smaller personal territory than do people from North America, Britain, Germany? (“bubble” of space (territory).

12.Name the four kinds of “distance between certain people “ ? 1) intimate 2) personal 3) social 4) public

13.Is it true that in time orientation, generally speaking, the USA is future-oriented, the Philippines, Mexico, and Latin America are present-oriented, and Asia, Britain, Greece, France are past-oriented?

14. What is “Intercultural communication”?

15. How serious are cultural mistakes and linguistic mistakes?

16. How serious are verbal communication and nonverbal communication?. 16. How serious are violating of a cultural taboo and violating a verbal taboo?. 17. How do Americans and Chinese showi concern ? 18. Can we address Lawyer Douglas?

19. How different when Americans and Chinese refuse a request? (face). 20. Name some of the M-Time countries&P-Time countries? 21. What is the implication of avoidance of eye contact?

22.What do you know about touch culture or non-touch culture? Do American like others to touch their children’s heads?

23. In business negotiation, what differences can you tell when Americans, Chinese or some other countries signing agreement?

24. What is culture (communication,)and their characteristics?

25. what are the relationship between culture ,communication and language? 26. What are the semantic differences between English and Chinese terms?

27. What are taboos (euphemism)? What are the similarities between English and Chinese?

28. What are the differences between English and Chinese thinking patterns?

29. What are the classifications （major areas ）of nonverbal communication?

30. What are the communication(negotiating) styles of some of the important countriesintheworld（ American, French, Japanese and Chinese negotiators）? 31. How to ananlyze cases in intercultural communication?:

This is a cultural conflict between Chinese and Westerners …(定性分析) In the case… (具体分析)

In order to avoid such conflicts, we should(如何避免) 有关参考资料见课本或课件