跨文化交际英语教程

UNIT 1 Communication Across Cultures 1

WARM UP 1

PART ONE 2

Sharing Knowledge:Compliment response 2

Survey 3

Reading Ⅰ Communicating Across Cultural Lines 4

Case Study 1 8

Discovering Problems:What was wrong? 9

Disussion 11

PART TWO 11

Reading Ⅱ The Era of Intercultural Communication 12

Debate 16

Writing 16

Case Study 2-3 17

Fill-in Task 19

Identifying Difference:Addressing 21

Group Work 24

Translation 25

PART THREE 25

Further Reading Ⅰ Stumbling Blocks in Intercultural Communication 25

Further Reading Ⅱ Communication in a Global Village 32

UNIT 2 Culture and Communication 38

WARMUP 38

PART ONE 39

Reading Ⅰ What IS Culture 39

Case Study4-6 45

Translation 47

Group Work 48

Writing 49

PART TWO 50

Reading Ⅱ Elements of Communication 50

Fill-in Task 59

Discussion 60

Discovering Problems:Commercial signs 60

Identifying Difference:Little things 61

PART THREE 63

Further Reading Ⅰ Culture 63

Further Reading Ⅱ Communication and Its Characteristics 68

UNIT 3 Cultural Differences 74

WARM UP 74

PART ONE 75

Group Work 75

Reading Ⅰ Different Lands,Different Friendships 76

Debate 81

Case Study 7-9 81

Cultural Information:American friendship 83

Discussion 85

Survey 85

PART TWO 86

Reading Ⅱ Comparing and Contrasting Cultures 87

Fill-in Task 93

Writing 93

Sharing Knowledge:Family structure 94

Case Study 10-13 96

Identifying Difference:Living situations 99

Reading Ⅲ So Near the United States 101

Translation 106

PART THREE 107

Further Reading Ⅰ Cultural Dimensions 107

Further Reading Ⅱ High-Context and Low-Context Cultures 113

UNIT 4 Language and Culture 119

WARM UP 119

PART ONE 120

Group Work 120

Sharing Knowledge:Language as an environment 121

Reading Ⅰ How to Talk About the World 123

Identifying Difference:Kinship terms and more 128

Reading Ⅱ We Are at the Mercy of Our Language 130

Fill—in Task 135

Writing 136

PART TWO 136

Discovering Problems:Translating across languages 136

Case Study 14-16 140

Reading Ⅲ Language as Communication and Language as Culture 145

Translation 149

PART THREE 150

Further Reading Ⅰ The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis 150

Further Reading Ⅱ Language,Thought,and Culture 154

UNIT 5 Verbal Communication 159

WARM UP 159

PART ONE 160

Reading Ⅰ Understanding the Culture of Conversation 160

Case Study 17 163

Fill-in Task 164

Sharing Knowledge:Yes and no 165

Reading Ⅱ Communication Is Culturally Relative 172

Discussion 178

Group Work 178

PART TWO 179

Reading Ⅲ Chinese Discourse Style 179

Case Study 18-19 183

Identifying Difference:Telephone calls 184

Reading Ⅳ Discourse Patterns and World Views 186

Writing 188

Translation 188

PART THREE 189

Further Reading Ⅰ The Impact of Confucianism on Communication 189

Further Reading Ⅱ Foundations of Indian Verbal Communication 194

UNIT 6 Nonverbal Communication 200

WARM UP 200

PART ONE 201

Reading Ⅰ An Overview of Nonverbal Communication 201

Matching Task 213

Case Study 20-22 214

Group Work 217

PART TWO 217

Reading Ⅱ Some Nonverbal Patterns in the Black Culture 217

Fill-in Task 222

Cultural Information:Bowing in Japan 224

Writing 225

Discussion 226

Translation 227

PART THREE 227

Further Reading Ⅰ Functions of Nonverbal Communication 227

Further Reading Ⅱ Silence in Western Apache Culture 231

UNIT 7 Time and Space 238

WARM UP 238

PART ONE 239

Reading Ⅰ The Silent Language 239

Group Work 242

Reading Ⅱ Social Time:The Heartbeat of Culture 244

Case Study 23-24 248

Debate 251

Identifying Difference:Pace of life 251

Translation 253

Writing 253

PART TWO 254

Reading Ⅲ Personal Space 254

Case Study 25 256

Reading Ⅳ Home and Culture 258

Fill-in Task 262

Case Study 26-27 264

PART THREE 266

Further Reading Ⅰ German Patterns in Space Use 266

Further Reading Ⅱ Monochronic and Polychronic Time 271

UNIT 8 Intercultural Perception 277

WARM UP 277

PART ONE 278

Reading Ⅰ French Leave and Dutch Courage 278

Sharing Knowledge:Culture and perception 282

Reading Ⅱ Gaijin 285

Survey 288

Discussion 289

PART TWO 290

Reading Ⅲ Ethnocentrism 290

Case Study 28 294

Discovering Problems:The image of Arabs 296

Fill-in Task 297

Group Work 299

Writing 301

Reading Ⅳ Behaviors That Separate Us 302

Translation 306

PART THREE 307

Further Reading Ⅰ Forms of Prejudice 307

Further Reading Ⅱ The Nature of Mindfulness 312

UNIT 9 Intercultural Understanding 318

WARM UP 318

PART ONE 319

Reading Ⅰ Shakespeare in the Bush 319

Case Study 29-31 325

Group Work 328

Reading Ⅱ Improving Intercultural Communication 331

PART TWO 335

Reading Ⅲ The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl 335

Case Study 32-33 338

Reading Ⅳ A Very Lucky Daughter 340

Writing 346

Sharing Knowledge:Steps in cultural understanding 346

Fill-in Task 349

Translation 349

PART THREE 350

Further Reading Ⅰ Communicating Effectively with Strangers 350

Further Reading Ⅱ Cross-cultural Awareness 355

UNIT 10 Intercultural Adaptation 362

WARM UP 362

PART ONE 363

Group Work 363

Reading Ⅰ Culture Shock 365

Sharing Knowledge:Two views of culture shock 371

Reading Ⅱ Letters from the U.S.A 373

Discovering Problems:Chinese students abroad 377

Case Stuay 34-35 378

Test Yourself 379

PART TWO 380

Reading Ⅲ Love Without Borders 380

Fill-in Task 383

Reading Ⅳ Living in Two Cultures 385

Discussion 391

Writing 392

Translation 393

PART THREE 393

Further Reading Ⅰ Retum Culture Shock 393

Further Reading Ⅱ A Wager on Hope 398

Key to Some of the Exercises 403

Acknowledgements 412