新编跨文化英语交际unit1 introduction i-2010908.ppt

2019/9/11,跨文化交际英语 Unit1,1,Intercultural Communication in English 《新编跨文化交际英语教程》,适用专业：英语教育专业、商务英语专业 主讲教师: 陈冬青,don123@ 13827153123,Unit One: Communication Across Cultures,Unit One Introduction,跨文化交际英语 Unit1,3,2019/9/11,Goals :,introduction,To understand the definition of globalization and its origin, modern concept as well as contributing elements. To understand the trend of culture merge and the reality of culture diversity. To understand the disadvantages of culture diversity and strategies for overcoming them.,跨文化交际英语 Unit1,4,2019/9/11,Warm Up (P118.),1.[In a physics class] Professor: What is matter? Student: Never mind. Professor : Then what is mind? Student: It doesn’t matter.,跨文化交际英语 Unit1,5,2019/9/11,Warm Up,2. A: I am sorry. Foreigner: I am sorry, too. A: I am sorry three. Foreigner: What are you sorry for (four)? A: I am sorry five.,跨文化交际英语 Unit1,6,2019/9/11,Warm up,Once a Chinese scholar studying in the United States was asked as to what he did the weekend before. He answered without hesitation “I played.” What do you think Americans would feel when they heard a middle aged scholar using a word usually for children only to describe himself ?,跨文化交际英语 Unit1,7,2019/9/11,Warm up,Many years ago, a Chinese man showed a photo of his wife to some American visitors. Out of courtesy, they all said, “She is very beautiful.” Also Out of courtesy, the man replied with what he would have done in Chinese under the circumstance, “Where! Where!” Quite taken aback, nobody said anything for a moment, until the most ingenious one among the visitors, taking another look at the photo, said, “Oh,everywhere!”,跨文化交际英语 Unit1,8,2019/9/11,Question:,What did the Chinese intend to mean by replying with “Where! Where! ”? How did the Americans understand the reply? What would a Westerner say to respond to a similar compliment?,跨文化交际英语 Unit1,9,2019/9/11,Question：,1. Why is it difficult to explain to a blind person what colors are? 2. Do you sometimes find it hard to make yourself properly understood by others? If you do, why do you think it is hard?,跨文化交际英语 Unit1,10,2019/9/11,,It is very difficult for people to understand one another if they do not share the same experiences. It is these different experiences that make up what is called “culture“ in the social sciences -- the habits of everyday life, the cues to which people respond, the automatic reactions they have to whatever they see and hear. These often differ, and the differences may cause misunderstandings where we seek understanding.,跨文化交际英语 Unit1,11,2019/9/11,Intercultural Communication: An Introduction,1. Is it still often the case that “everyone's quick to blame the alien“ in the contemporary world? This is still powerful element in today's social and political rhetoric. For instance, it is not uncommon in today's society to hear people say that most, if not all, of the social and economic problems are caused by minorities and immigrants.,跨文化交际英语 Unit1,12,2019/9/11,An Introduction,2. What's the difference between today's intercultural contact and that of any time in the past? Today's intercultural encounters are far more numerous and of greater importance than in any time in history.,跨文化交际英语 Unit1,13,2019/9/11,An Introduction,3. What have made intercultural contact a very common phenomenon in our life today? New technology, in the form of transportation and communication systems, has accelerated intercultural contact; innovative communication systems have encouraged and facilitated cultural interaction; globalization of the economy has brought people together; changes in immigration patterns have also contributed to intercultural encounter.,跨文化交际英语 Unit1,14,2019/9/11,An Introduction,4. How do you understand the sentence “culture is everything and everywhere“? Culture supplies us with the answers to questions about what the world looks like and how we live and communicate within that world. Culture teaches us how to behave in our life from the instant of birth. It is omnipresent.,跨文化交际英语 Unit1,15,2019/9/11,An Introduction,5. What are the major elements that directly influence our perception and communication? The three major socio-cultural elements that directly influence perception and communication are cultural values, worldview (religion), and social organizations (family and state).,跨文化交际英语 Unit1,16,2019/9/11,An Introduction,6. What does one's family teach him or her while he or she grows up in it? The family teaches the child what the world looks like and his or her place in that world.,跨文化交际英语 Unit1,17,2019/9/11,An Introduction,7. Why is it impossible to separate our use of language from our culture? Because language is not only a form of preserving culture but also a means of sharing culture. Language is an organized, generally agreed-upon, learned symbol system that is used to represent the experiences within a cultural community.,跨文化交际英语 Unit1,18,2019/9/11,An Introduction,8. What are the nonverbal behaviors that people can attach meaning to? Pe。