跨文化交际 考试重点归纳
19. Polychronic time:多元时间概念 being involved with many things at once.
20. Proxemics:空间学 the perception and use of space.
21. Kinetics:身势学 the study of body language
22. Paralanguage:辅助语言 involving sounds but not words and lying between verbal and nonverbal communication.
精讲案例 case 1 (p. 85) case 3 (p.87) case 5, 6 (p.90) case 7 (p.91)
思考题
8. What are the different features of M-time and P-time? (p97)
M-time means paying attention to and doing only one thing at a time.
M-time is noted for its emphasis on schedules, segmentation and promptness. It features one event at a time. Time is perceived as a linear structure and something concrete tangible.
P-time means being involved with many things at once.
P-time is less rigid and clock-bound. It features several activities at the same time. It is more flexible and human-centered.
9. what is the meaning of common gestures in English? P114 (答案P233-234) Unit 6
精讲案例 case 1 (p.115) case 2 (p.116) p.124-126中的小案例
思考题
9. How is gender different from sex? （p.129） (答案P.119/120)
10. What has influenced the gender socialization?
There are two primary influences on gender socialization: family communication, particularly between mothers and children and recreational interaction among children.
11. What are the six principles for effective cross-gender communication? (p. 129) (答案127-128)
Suspend judgement, recognize the validity of different communication styles, provide translation cues, enlarge your own communication style, suspend judgement.
12. what are the characteristics of feminine talk and masculine talk respectively? P123
Unit 7
精讲案例 case 1 (p.137) case 3 (p.139)
13. Discuss the concepts of high context culture and low context culture (p153) (结合最后一个单元中ppt的讲解，了解high-context culture 和low-context culture两个概念)
A high-context communication or message is one in which most of the information is already in the person, while very little is in the coded, explicitly transmitted part of the message. In high-context cultures, verbal messages have little meaning without the surrounding context, which includes the overall relationship between all the people engaged in communication. (沉默是金；一切尽在不言中；心