跨文化交际上课内容unit8
Unit Eight Cross-Cultural Perception
I.Warm Up
Please read the story on page 264 and fill in the blanks. What do you think of the story?
What the story tells us about people of those different nations can only be partially true and we must be aware of such overgeneralization 过分概括and oversimplification in our perception of people of other cultures.
II.Culture and Perception (p281-284)
(i) A Basic Model of Human Perception:
Selection: It is a process in which we screen out 筛选出what we need from all the stimuli and information around us.
Organization: It is the process during which we need to organize and impose加强structure on what we observe in a meaningful way.
Interpretation: It refers to attaching meaning to sense data and is synonymous with decoding与解密相同.
III.Intercultural Communication Barriers (p26-31)
1.Assumption of similarities;
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3.Nonverbal misinterpretations;
4.Preconceptions and Stereotypes;偏见和成见
5.Tendency to Evaluate;
6.High Anxiety.极度焦虑
IV.French Leave and Dutch Courage (p265-267)
1. Do you know some terms and expressions in English that are formed with names of other nationalities?
2. Among the English idioms mentioned in Reading I, some are emotionally “neutral” 中立in that they only deal with “flora and fauna动植物and products” that are not native to England. Howe ver, some other idioms may carry the British cultural values and attitudes to other nations. For instance, idioms which are culturally neutral include:
Danish pastry, Flemish bond, Irish stew, Italic handwriting, Portuguese man-or-war, Russian roulette, Spanish fly, Scotch pine, Swiss roll, Turkish delight and Welsh rarebit.
Idioms which are culturally loaded 从文化角度include: Belgian hare, Dutch barn, French letter避孕套, German measles风疹, Greek gifts 来者不善and Swedish drill瑞典肌肉体操.
Homework: Finish the Fill-in Task exercise (p268). What do they mean in the sentence?
1. French;
2. Dutch;
3. Greek;
4. English;
5. Russian;
6. Irish/Dutch;
7.
Dutch; 8. Indian; 9. French; 10. Welsh.
go Dutch (Dutch treat): you pay your own way, you share expenses.
I’m a Dutchman: I’m not myself.我就不是人了！
in Dutch: in disfavour, in trouble. 处境困难
We’ve been Dutched. :We’ve been cheated.
Drunk as a Dutchman: you are totally intoxicated醉了.
A Dutchman: (in architecture) a device for hiding or counteracting
structural defects.
Dutch auction:property is offered at a high price, which is gradually lowered until someone buys it. 喊价逐步减低的拍卖
Dutch (or wet) bargain: an uneven, one-sided deal不公平交易，靠酒的交易
Beat the Dutch: to do something remarkable令人惊讶
Dutch cap: a woman’s lace cap and a contraceptive device避孕器、阴道隔膜
Dutch concert:人声嘈杂each performer plays a different tone;
discordant music
Dutch courage: bravery or courage induced by drinking—probably large quantities酒后之勇，
一时的勇气
double Dutch(或high Dutch): gibberish莫名其妙的话
Dutch nightingale: a frog
Dutch uncle严厉的批评者
French leave: 不告而别(once a custom prevalent in 18th century France,) guests would leave a reception without saying goodbye to the host, which developed into going AWOL (absent without leave) from the army.
Greeking: cheating at cards.
This is Greek to me: it is gibberish, unintelligible.莫名其妙。不知怎么办
His Irish (or his Dutch) is up: He is an gry, he’s in a temper.
Walk Spanish: to be forced to walk with someone holding your collar and the seat of your trousers. 小心翼翼地走
V.Ethnocentrism and Ethnorelativism(p272-276)民族优越感与民族相对主义
1. What is ethnocentrism?民族优越感
Most other cultures are backward 落后的compared with my culture.
My culture should be the role model for other cultures.
Other cultures should try to be more like my culture.
Most people from other cultures just don’t know what’s good or them.
I have little respect for the values and customs of other cultures.
Most people would be happier if they lived like people in my culture.
People in my culture have just about the best lifestyles of anywhere.
Lifestyles in other cultures are not as valid as those in my culture.
I do not cooperate with people who are different.
I do not trust people who are different.
I dislike interacting with people from different cultures.
Other cultures are smart to look up to my culture.
Other people are much the same as my people.
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