Communication and Culture

跨文化交际三单元思维导图，人们通过传播共享信息，了解他人的想法和感受，从而更好地理解和适应社会环境。

Communication and Culture

• passage one: verbal language in intercultural communication
  • the importance of language
    • thought is the blossom;language the opening bud;action the fruit behind it
  • language and culture
    • culture is communication,and culture has such a pervasive influence on communication
    • languages are not neutral codes and grammatical rules
    • cultural diversity in language behavior remains problems in intercutural communication
  • language are multi-functional
    • language may serve different functions in different situations,but all utterance are multi-functional.
  • verbal language
    • condusion can apper because of culture differences
    • language may borrow extensively from other language
• passage two: what direct and indirect communication styles
  • polite usage
    • most cultures have a number of forms of polite usage,which can be misleading.
  • direct and indirect comunication style
    • direct styles are often used in low-context,individualistic cultures like England Australia
    • indirecet communication style is often seen in high-context and collectivistic cultures like China
    • different culture prefer different way
  • sum it up
    • cultural literacy is necessary in order to understand the language being used
• passage three: addressing people
  • how to address people
    • In china,surnames comes first and given names second.But for westerners,it is opposite
    • English people often address others by their given names while Chinese are opposite
  • Chinese way to address people
    • they are always careful in choosing appropriate titles
    • they do not know that it is a rule that surname alone is not noramlly an acceptable form of address
    • they think call a foreginer by his given name implies intimacy and friendliness
  • to sum it up
    • understanding differences in addressing people,Chinese and Westerners would have fewer problems in communication with each other