1、Unit 4 Cultural Encounters,Susan Bassnett,Warm-up,1. What kind of age is 21st century? An information age. 2. Why do we call it an information age? We live in an age when more information is available with greater ease than ever before. Communication becomes much more important than ever.,Internet M

2、obile phone Television E-mail (vs. S-mail) QQ WeChat (micro-letter) Fetion chat MSN Blog,Text messages Voice messages Video messages Multimedia messages,Global communication revolution,3. How do you get the information you need? By what means do you communicate with others?,Communication is impossib

3、le without language. What language has been chosen in this global communication revolution? To learn a language is also to learn its culture. If you want to be bilingual, you should also be bicultural.,Have a quiz 1. John Bull & Uncle Sam 2. Frank is a man eating no fish, so we can believe in and de

4、pend on him. 3. Jeffrey has an excellent performance in almost every subject, math being his Achilles heel.,Some English and Chinese Idioms,Walls have ears. As fat as a pig The frog in the well Blood is thicker than water. To laugh ones head off To spend money like water Every potter praises his own

5、 pot .,隔墻有耳 肥得像豬 井底之蛙 血濃于水 笑掉大牙 揮金如土 王婆賣瓜，自賣自夸,Can you translate: 1. 算盤 2. 二胡 3. 麻將 4. 丁字路口 5. 在床上睡成一個(gè)“大”字 6. Do you know she is a blue boy. 7. A Pink Lady for me, a Martini for my husband and a glass of hot milk for my daughter, please.,One English native speaker came to China for a visit. When he

6、stepped off the plane and he told the Chinese man meeting him at the airport, “Id like to go somewhere.” The Chinese smiled and said, “You can go anywhere”.,A Chinese girl studied abroad in Britain. While studying, she took a part-time job in a company. One day, her boss was ill and sent to the hosp

7、ital. She went to see her with a flower in red and white. To her surprise, she was driven out of the hospital by her boss and later she was also fired. What is the misunderstanding here?,A foreign teacher, who taught English in China, one day made a request to the Chinese Bureau of Foreign Affairs.

8、Hearing his request, the man in charge thought for a while and then said “We will think it over ”(KaolKaol). The teacher assumed that it was hopeful that they would solve the problem for him, so he waited and waited. But finally he got no reply from the bureau. He got confused and annoyed.,It is imp

9、ortant to know the differences and similarities of the target culture (English culture) and our own culture (Chinese culture) to avoid making silly mistakes in intercultural communication.,Cultural Encounter/ Cultural Shock,Cultural encounter strong feelings of discomfort, fear, anxiety which people

10、 may have when they enter an entirely different culture.,Quotations,What is “right” in one culture may be “wrong” in another. To learn a language without learning its culture is a very good way to make oneself a language fluent fool.,Susan Bassnett,Susan Bassnett is one of the leading international

11、figures and founding scholar in Translation Studies. Research interests: comparative and world literature, theatre history, English poetry.,Susan Bassnett is author of over 20 books, and her Translation Studies, (3rd Ed. 2002) which first appeared in 1980, has remained consistently in print and has

12、become the most important textbook around the world in the expanding field of Translation Studies.,Structure of the Text,Part 1 (Para. 1-3),(Para. 1) Global communication,(Para. 2) English and communication,(Para. 3) Problems arousing from global communication relationship between language and cultu

13、re,Part 2 (Para. 4-7),(Para 4) Different culture,(Para. 5) Bible translation,(Para. 6) Compromising/ adjustments,(Para. 7) Criticism,(Para. 8) The immense significance of intercultural understanding,Part 3 (Para. 8),Words,Backpacking Backpacker,Essential It is essential that every child _ the same e

14、ducational opportunities. (have) It is essential / important/ vital/ necessary/ crucial/ desirable/ determined - that + (should) do,have,Hence,The town was built among the hills, hence the name Hilltown. Believing is easier than thinking. Hence so many more believers than thinkers. (implying the sta

15、tement you are about to make is a consequence of what you have just said. ) The gases that may be warming the planet will have their main effect many years hence. (referring to a time in the future, especially a long time in the future ),Hybrid,Ahybrid vehicleis a vehicle that uses two or more disti

16、nct power sources to move the vehicle.The term most commonly refers tohybrid electric vehicles(HEVs), which combine aninternal combustion engine（內(nèi)燃機(jī)）and one or more electric motors （電動(dòng)裝置）.,Multi-, mono-,A multicolored dress A multiracial society A multiplayer game A multipurpose tool monocycle (bicy

17、cle) monotonous (mono- + tone) monologue (dialogue),Oasis,A place with water and tree in a desert,Oasis,A place which is different from its surroundings, usu. in a pleasant and comfort way E.g. The caravan stopped for the night at an oasis. Her bedroom is an oasis of calm in the noisy house.,Color S

18、pectrum,詞義空缺,她把一只杯子放在桌上。 She put a _ down on the _.,杯子,Cup: a small round container, usually with a handle, that you use to drink tea, coffee, etc.,杯子,Glass: a drinking vessel, esp. made of glass or plastic, often with a stem.,杯子,Goblet: a drinking vessel, usually of glass or metal, with a base and stem but no handles and esp. used for drinking wine.,杯子,Mug: a drinking vessel with a flat bottom, straight sides and a handle,杯子,Tumbler: a large, flat-bot