跨文化交际课后题答案

Unit 1

Language and Culture in Communication

1.Fill in blanks

a. There are here-------- Chinese equivalents to communication in Mainland.

交际（）交流（）沟通（）传播（）

通信（）交通（）传理（）

b. There must be ___________conditions for communication to take place.

c. There are _______ kinds of communication.

d. The two kinds of cross-cultural communication are _______ and ______.

e. In any forms of communication, mono-cultural, unilateral and bilateral cross-cultural alike, ______ is the essence.

f. Y ou complain to your instructor about your course credits through telephone is a________ example of communication.

g. Y ou send an e-mail message to an American friend is an instance of communication but______.

h. An Arabic traveler talks to you in Arabic that is Greek to you is an instance of_________.

i. The community definition of a social situation is a sort of ______ definition, or ______ interpretation of the situation.

j. In cross-cultural communication, private goals are difficult to detect and are likely to cause ______.

k. A social situation may receive two definitions. They are____________________ and ______________.

l. The verbal message of shrug is a non-verbal signal of_________________.

m. The verbal message of thank is a non-verbal signal of________________.

n. The goal of Dick’s going to the library is likely to _______________________________________.

Ⅱ. Key Terms

a. language

b. non-verbal communication

c. cross-cultural communication

d. situational schema

e. signal

f. culture

g. communication

h.. mutual monitoring

i. value

j. competence

Ⅲ. Short Answer

1. Give some best and not good instances of communication.

2. How to understand a mutual monitoring?

a. Types of communication.

b. Cultural influencing factors of cross-cultural communication.

c. b. collectivist culture

c. hospitality

Ⅳ. Case study

Use the communication theory to analyze the following case:

Xiao Huang meets Evelyn at the airport and says to her: "Long time no see!" 1）The source of information is: ______.

2）The encoder is: ______.

3）The code is: ______.

4）The message is: "______!"

5）The channel is: ______.

6）The medium is: ______.

7）The noise is: ______.

8）The decoder is: ______.

9）The retrieval of information is: ______.

Keys To Unit One

Ⅰ.Fill in the blanks.

a. 6

b. 4

c. 5

d. unilateral cross-cultural communication, bilateral cross-cultural communication

e. meaning exchange

f. best

g. Y es, but not very good.

h. non-communication

i. official，official

j. misunderstanding

k. one of the community and one of the participants.

l. raising one’s shoulders up and down.

m. holding one’s hands in a fist in front

n. borrow books

II. Key Terms

a. language. a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols ("He taught foreign languages")

b. While we speak with our vocal organs we converse with our whole bodies. In addition to the words we use we convey a whole variety of information to others with our bodies. This is non-verbal communication.

c.It refers to the communication between the people with different cultural backgrounds.

d. It refers to the rules and procedures that govern the way things are going to proceed.

e. It means an element of the behavior, appearance, etc., of one organism that is received by the sense organs of a second organism and affects its behavior.

f. Culture means:

1.The arts, customs, and habits that characterize a particular society or nation.

2.The beliefs, values, behavior and material objects that constitute a people's way of life.

g. communication: the exchange of information between people, e.g. by means of speaking, writing, or using a common system of signs or behaviors. There are source of information, encoder, code, channel, decoder, retrieval of information.

III. Short answers.

Best examples：Y ou complain to your instructor about your course credits through telephone. Two blind people exchange ideas in Braille. Not so good examples; An orator delivers a speech to a large gathering. Y ou send an email message to an American friend.

when you are alone with no one else being present , you can do anything you like, because you are not in a social situation. Once another person joins you, or even comes close enough that you two can see each other, your behavior is affected by his or her presence. That is mutual monitoring.

a. human communication

b. animal communication

c. human-animal communication

d. human-machine communication

e. machine-to-machine communication

4. they are of history, tradition, religion, value, social organization, customs, social development and systems.

5. collectivist culture places little value on individual identity and great value on group identity. They have been labeled as ‘we’ cultures because the basic unit is the in-group or collective.

IV. Case study

1）Xiao Huang

2）Xiao Huang

3）English;

4）Long time no see!;

5）face to face;

6）air;

7）the disturbance of the passing airplanes; 8）Evelyn;

9）Evelyn