1、Intercultural Communication Spring 2012:Sun. 8:30-11:00, 57-106 Instructor:Xiaoye Yan Email:,Course Objectives,To acquire knowledge related to ICC (terminologies and definitions); To understand how communication processes differ among cultures and improve your intercultural awareness; To develop ski

2、lls that will increase your intercultural communication competence; To cultivate the ability to study and explore the issues concerning intercultural communication,Course books,Required textbook: 許力生. 新編跨文化交際英語教程.上海: 上海外語教育出版社, 2009 Recommended books: - Chen, G-M., - the impact of new electronic med

3、ia on human communications,The Challenge of Globalization,Attitudes towards globalization: - both a fact and an opportunity; - the development of a global mind-set Cultural diversity must be recognized and appreciated Effective communication is based on an understanding of cross-cultural differences

4、,Intercultural Communication : An Introduction 2,Culture is everything and everywhere. It is the foundation of communication. The world looks, sounds, tastes, and feels the way it does because our culture has given you the criterion of perception.,Intercultural Communication : An Introduction 2,The

5、three major elements that directly influence our perception and communication: - Cultural values: what is good and bad, right and wrong. True and false, positive and negative - Worldview: religions - Social Organizations: family, government, community, history of the community,Intercultural Communic

6、ation : An Introduction 3,Language and culture Verbal Communication - Names of objects - Cultural connotations of words - The way people use languages,Intercultural Communication : An Introduction 3,Nonverbal Communication - gestures and postures - facial expressions, eye contact and gaze - touch -

7、concepts and uses of time - concepts and uses of space,Nonverbal Communication & Cultural values,Communication Across Cultures,“Communication works better when the participants share more assumptions and knowledge about the world” (Scollon & Scollon, 2001:21) The misunderstanding or misbehavior more

8、 likely resides elsewhere, in the subtle but consistent cultural patterns of behavior which become understandable when we appreciate difference in cultural values.,Communication Across Cultures,What we first need is not necessarily more language skill or more information about the mores of a particu

9、lar culture, but rather an openness to alternatives to our own conventional behavior. A free, culturally diverse society can exist only if diversity is permitted to flourish without prejudice and discrimination, both of which harm all members of the village.,Case Study,Egypt: human relationships highly valued, not expressed in an objective and impersonal way America: human relationships valued, but more likely expressed in less