1. Privacy could be understood as the right of an individual to self-determination as to the degree to which the individual is willing to share with others information about himself that may be compromised by unauthorized exchange of such information among other individuals or organizations.
4. collectivist culture place little value on individual identity and great value on group identity. They have been labeled as “we” cultures because basic unit is the in-group or collective. 5. culture shock is a psychological phenomenon that is experienced most often by those who, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, in the process of adjusting themselves to a new culture.
6.high-context communication is one in which most of the information is either in the context or internalized in the person,while little is in the coded ,explicit,transmitted part of the
message.(indirect verbal mode, Native Americans, Latin Americans, Japanese, Korean, Chinese) Low-context communication:the mass of the information is vested in the explicit code, and the context or situation plays a minimal role.(direct verbal mode, German, Swiss,American) 7. Intercultural communication: communication between people of different cultures. 8. Culture is the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively”. It’s referring to intellectual perspective, such as music, art exhibition, dance etc. when you talk about Picasso, Beethoven etc, you are talking about culture.
10. Individualism refers to the doctrine that the interests of the individual are or ought to be paramount, and that all values, right, and duties originate in individuals. It emphasizes individual initiative, independence，individual expression, and even privacy. 11. Proxemics
The study of personal space for the purpose of communication 12. Chronemics
The study of how people perceive and use time. 13. Forms of Intercultural communication a. Interpersonal Communication b. Intercultural Communication c. International Communication
The communication between nations and governments ,quite formal and ritualized d. Interethnic Communication
The communication between people of the same race but different ethnic backgrounds. e. Interracial Communication
The communication between different races which pertains to physical characteristic(may not be intercultural)
f. interregional Communication
the exchange of messages between members of the dominant culture within a country.
14. elements of communication:1.context, 2.participants, 3.messages, 4.channels, 5.noise, 6.feedback,
16. Ethnocentrism:negatively judging aspects of another culture by the standards of one’s own
culture. The view of things in which one’s own group is the center of everything,and all other are scaled and rated with reference to it.
welsh on one's debts 赖账 in a brown study 沉思 be yellow 胆小 green in one’s eyes 嫉妒 see red 大怒black looks 恶狠狠的样子look green 面容苍白yellow journalism 耸人听闻事件
跨文化交际考点 动物、颜色习语
