跨文化交际

孙淑女徐馨

目录

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

The definition of culture


Definition of culture:

Culture is the deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, actions, attitudes, hierarchies, religions, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and artifacts acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.(textbook P.10)