跨文化交际

孙淑女 徐馨

目录

  • 1 Culture
    • 1.1 Definition of Culture
    • 1.2 Elements of culture
    • 1.3 Subculture/Co-culture
    • 1.4 Cultural identity
    • 1.5 Characteristics of culture
  • 2 Communication and Intercultural communication
    • 2.1 Definition of communication
    • 2.2 Elements of communication
    • 2.3 Intercultural communication
  • 3 Cultural patterns
    • 3.1 Definition and components
    • 3.2 Edward T. Hall's theory
    • 3.3 Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck's value orientation
    • 3.4 Hofstede's dimensions of cultural variablity
  • 4 Verbal intercultural communication
    • 4.1 Language and culture
    • 4.2 Verbal communication styles
    • 4.3 Language diversity
  • 5 Nonverbal intercultural communication
    • 5.1 Significance,definition and functions
    • 5.2 Paralanguage and Silence
    • 5.3 Time and Space
    • 5.4 Other Categories
  • 6 Intercultural Communication Competence(不作要求）
    • 6.1 Definition of Intercultural Comunication Competence
    • 6.2 Components of Intercultural Comunication Competence
    • 6.3 Requirements for Intercultural Comunication Competence
  • 7 Intercultural communication barriers and bridges
    • 7.1 Barriers
    • 7.2 Culture shock
    • 7.3 Intercultural adaptation
Edward T. Hall's theory

Text C Edward T. Hall's Context-Culture Theory

Edward T. Hall's Context-Culture Theory

  1. Definition of context

    Context is the information that surrounds an event; it is inextricably bound up with the meaning of the event. (textbook p. 217)

  2. Differ high context and low context

    Hall categories culture as being either high context or low context, depending on the degree to which meaning comes from the setting or from the words being exchanged.  (textbook p. 217)

  3. Communicaiton in high-context culture and low-context culture

    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, expicitly transmitted part of the message. 

    A low context communication is just the opposite, the most information is vested in the explicit code.(textbook p. 217)