Unit 2 跨文化交际
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Unit 2
Culture and Communication
What is culture?
“文化”是一个广泛的概念,它的内涵很丰富。
在英语中,“culture”一词是一个难以解释的词,它最早来源于古法语cultura, 拉丁语colere和德语“kultur”,原指土地的开垦及植物的栽培;后来随着人类生存空间和生存方式的改变逐渐扩延,转而意指人的身体、精神,特别是指艺术和道德能力和天赋的培养;进而泛指人类社会在征服自然和自我发展中创造的物质财富和精神财富,包括饮食、器具、舟车、房屋、社会组织、政治制度、风俗习惯、语言、学术思想等。
More than 500 definitions up to the present
(Refer to p. 40 for some of the well-known ones)
First definition: E. B. Tylor (1871) in Primitive Culture: “that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of a society.”
文化是一种复合的整体,它包括知识、信仰、艺术、道德、法律、习俗以及人们作为社会成员而获得的能力与习惯
Broadly speaking, it means the total way of life of a people, including the patterns of belief, customs, objects, institutions, techniques, and language.
In a narrow sense, it refers to local or specific practice, beliefs or customs, and language. Define culture from different perspectives
From Intellectual Perspective
From Anthropologic Perspective
From Social Perspective
From Psychological Perspective
From Intercultural Communication Perspective
From Intellectual Perspective
According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, culture is "the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively".
It refers to intellectual perspective, such as music, art, exhibition, dance, etc. When you talk about Picasso, Beethoven, etc., you are talking about culture.
From Anthropologic Perspective
Culture is "the customs, civilizations, and achievements of a particular time or people." This is an anthropologist's definition.
From Social Perspective
Culture is what a society does and thinks.
Culture covers everything of a society.
From Psychological Perspective
Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one category of people from another.
From Intercultural Communication Perspective
Culture is a learned set of shared interpretations about beliefs, values, and norms, which affect the behavior of a relatively large group of people.
Culture Is Learned
We learn culture from __parents__, ____teachers____ friends ___,_other family
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members_____,_ and even strangers who are part of the culture_.
Culture Is a Set of Shared Interpretations
All communications take place by means of symbols
Culture Involves Beliefs, Values, and Norms
a. Beliefs
Beliefs refer to the basic understanding of a group of people about what the world is like or what is true or false.
b. Values
Values involve what a culture regarded as good or bad, right or wrong, fair or unfair, just or unjust, beautiful or ugly, clean or dirty, valuable or worthless, appropriate or inappropriate, and kind or cruel.
c. Norms
Norms refer to rules for appropriate behavior, which provide the expectations people have of one another and of others
Norms in the army: Salutes
Norms in different fields:
Culture Affects Behaviors
Culture Involves Large Groups of People
Three Things Culture Does
p46-48 (self-study)
Culture ranks what is important
Culture furnishes attitudes
Culture dictates how to behave
Culture ranks what is important
Different cultures have their own value orientation and what is important in one culture may be virtually meaningless to another.
Culture ranks what is important. In other words, cultures teach values or priorities.
Values underlie attitudes. They also shape beliefs.
Within a culture, values may be of greater or lesser importance.
Culture furnishes attitudes
An attitude is learned, and it is a tendency to respond the same way to the same object or situation or idea.
Attitudes can change, although change can be difficult. Attitudes are based on beliefs as well as values.
Beliefs are convictions or certainties based on subjective and often personal ideas rather than on proof or facts. Belief systems or religions are powerful sources of values and attitudes in cultures.
Culture dictates how to behave
Behavior comes directly from the attitudes about how significant something is --- how it is valued.
Attitudes vary according to how important something is reckoned to be (value).
Values drive actions.
1.3 Classification of Culture
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One of the most popular classification of culture:
high culture: philosophy, literature, fine arts, music, religion etc.
popular culture: customs and habits, rites and rituals, ways of living (housing, dressing, eating and drinking) and all interpersonal behavior.
deep culture: the conception of beauty, definition of sin, notions of modesty, ordering of time, etc.
Cultural iceberg: p. 44-50
Conscious or subconscious?
Deep culture—the out-of-awareness part of a culture
Nine-tenth of an iceberg / culture is out of sight.
Those that are above the “water” :
what to eat and how to eat it;
how to keep healthy;
how to raise children;
how to participate in ceremonies;
how to introduce and greet people;
Those that are below the “water” :
what is good or bad;
what is right or wrong;
what is beautiful or ugly;
what is clean or dirty;
how is an individual related to others;
Generally speaking, differences in those things that are usually outside of our conscious
awareness, i.e. the so-called “ deep culture”, are more likely to cause problems in intercultural communication. The reason is that this part of culture is internalized in people’s mind and thus is hard to perceived.
Summary
Culture is not anything that people in a group are born with, but something they learn either by being taught or by growing up in it.
Different cultures have different ways of eating, drinking, dressing, finding shelter, marrying and dealing with death.
Our own culture seems natural to us while other cultures may think it funny, strange or even disgusting. However, this has nothing to do with right or wrong.
It follows that there is no “best” culture suitable for all people in the world. In comparing cultures, we can hardly say which culture is definitely better than the other, for each culture can be appropriate to certain group of people living in a particular geographic and social environment.
A culture should therefore be judged and interpreted in its own context. Without considering the environment in which people of a particular culture live, it would be impossible for us to really understand and appreciate what is significant and meaningful in that culture.
Perhaps, if we could examine the manners of different nations with impartiality, we should find no people so rude, nor any so polite.
2. Instinctive Behavior and
Cultural Behavior
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Reading : p. 41
Questions:
---Do you know Maslow’s theory?
---Do human beings realize all these needs at the same time?
---Do people all over the world share the same basic needs described by Maslow? ---Do people realize these needs in the same ways?
---Is culture conscious or subconscious?
2.1 Instinctive behavior
—innate and universal
2.2 Cultural behavior—learned and transmitted from generation to generation through the use of symbols
People in different cultures satisfy these needs in different ways.
Examples:
Different ways of eating p.43;
Difference in treating visitors. p. 38 (Warm Up)
Difference in ending the meals. p. 59 (Group Work)
Case Analysis
Case 5 p. 60
Difference in taking offers
Case 7 p.62
Difference in the view of gifts
Case 8 p.62-63
Difference in food for banquet, table manners
Analysis
In China, it is often not polite to accept a first offer and Heping was being modest, polite and well-behaved and had every intention of accepting the beer at the second or third offer. But he did not know the North American rules which firmly say that you do not pull alcoholic beverages on anyone. A person may not drink for religious reasons, he may be a reformed alcoholic, or he may be allergic.
Whatever the reason, you do not insist on offering alcohol. So the Americans didn’t make a second offer of beer to Heping, who probably thought North Americans not hospitable. However, there are always individual differences between people from even the same culture. Probably the young Chinese nurse had known something about the American culture and was just trying to behave like an American when she was in an American family.
Case 7 p.62
What do you think of Keiko insisting on giving valuable gifts to her college friends?
How would you feel if Keiko presented you with a gift for your help?
Analysis
Keiko insists on giving valuable gifts to her college friends, because in countries like Japan, exchanging gifts is a strongly rooted social tradition. Should you receive a gift, and don’t have one to offer in return, you will probably create a crisis. If not as serious as a crisis, one who doesn’t offer a gift in return may be considered rude or impolite.
Therefore, in Japan, gifts are a symbolic way to show appreciation, respect, gratitude and further relationship.
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Keiko obviously has taken those used items from Mary, Ed and Marion as gifts, for she
probably doesn’t know that Americans frequently donate their used household items to church or to the community.
Mary, Ed and Marion would never consider those used household items given to Keiko as gifts. No wonder they felt very uncomfortable when they received valuable gifts in return. Case 8 p.62-63
Why did the girl consider the menu created by her mother a strange one?
What cultural differences can you find in this case?
Analysis
When the Chinese girl fell in love with an American boy at that time, it seems that she
preferred to celebrate Christmas in the American way, for she wanted very much to appear the same as other American girls. She did not like to see her boyfriend disappointed at the “shabby” Chinese Christmas. That’s why she cried when she found out her parents had invited the
minister’s family over for the Christmas Eve dinner. She thought the menu for the Christmas meal created by her mother a strange one because there were no roast turkey and sweet potatoes but only Chinese food.
How could she notice then the foods chosen by her mother were all her favorites?
From this case, we can find a lot of differences between the Chinese and Western cultures in what is appropriate food for a banquet, what are good table manners, and how one should behave to be hospitable. However, one should never feel shame just because one’s culture is different from others’. As Amy’s mother told her, you must be proud to be different, and your only shame is to have shame.
3.1 Definition of Communication
---A behavior-affecting process in which one person (a source) intentionally encodes and
transmits a message through a channel to an intended audience (receivers) in order to induce a particular attitude or behavior.
---Transmission and reception of meaning through the manipulation of symbols, language and context.
---A process involving the exchange of messages and the creation of meaning.(p.58)
It involves a sender who encodes a message and a receiver who decodes the message.
3.3 Types of Communication(1)
Interpersonal Communication (Dyad)
Intrapersonal Communication (Within)
Mass Communication
Group Communication
Public Communication
Business Communication
Intracultural Communication
Shared communication between members of the same cultural group /communication between people from the same culture
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Intercultural Communication
communication between people from different cultures
Intercultural Communication…
Requires an understanding of …
Own culture
Cultures of other groups
Parent/Dominant culture (e.g. based on race or ethnicity)
Co-cultures (e.g. based on gender, religion, age)
Intercultural Communication…
Requires an understanding of …..
Knowledge system
Beliefs
Values
Customs
Behaviors
Intercultural / Cross-cultural Communication
Although the term cross-cultural is often used as a synonym for intercultural, it traditionally implies a comparison of some phenomena across cultures.
For example, if we examine communication between two Chinese or between two Americans, we are looking at intra-cultural communication.
If we observe communication between a Chinese and an American, in contrast, we are looking at intercultural communication.
If we compare the speech act of apology in the Chinese culture and in the American culture, for example, we are making a cross-cultural comparison.
If we look at how an American or a Chinese is making an apology when communicating with each other, in contrast, we are looking at intercultural communication.
Cross-Cultural Communication
Involves highlighting similarities and differences across cultural groups to promote
communication
International Communication
Interactions among people from different nations. Certainly, communication among people from different countries is likely to be intercultural communication, but that is not always true.
3.3 Types of Communication(2)
human communication (人类交际)
animal communication (动物交际)
human-animal communication (人类与动物的交际)
human-machine communication(人机交际)
machine-to-machine communication(机器交际)
3.4 Media of Communication
Face-to-Face
Telephone
Broadcast Media
Verbal
Non-verbal
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Which other media of communication can you identify?
3.6 The Communication Process
Matching Task p.57
One more example:
1. A: Can you tell me the time?
B: Well, the milkman has come.
(No, I don’t know the exact time, but I can tell you that the milkman has come so that you may be able to tell what the approximate time it is now.)
Case 6 p.61 ( assignment)
Case Analysis
Case 6 p.61
Why did the Chinese mother-in-law decide to leave the very afternoon?
What was wrong with Litz asking her husband how long his mother was going to stay just two days after her mother-in-law’s arrival?
Analysis
When a speaker says something to a hearer, there are at least three kinds of meanings involved: utterance meaning, the speaker’s meaning and the hearer’s meaning.
In the dialogue, when Litz asked how long her mother-in-law was going to stay, she meant that if she knew how long she was going to stay in Finland, she would be able to make proper arrangements for her, such as taking her out to do some sightseeing. However, her
mother-in-law took Litz’s question to mean “ Litz does not want me to stay for long”. From the Chinese point of view, it seems inappropriate for Litz to ask such a question just two days after her mother-in-law’s arrival. If she has to ask the question, it would be better to ask some time later and she should not let her mother-in-law hear it.
Another Case
Situation:
A Chinese student had just arrived at the States. One day, when he was reading in his room, he heard someone shouting outside: “ Watch out!” So he went to the window and stretched out his head and tried to find out what’s going on outside. Just then, his head was right poured by the water from above…
Question:
What are the three meanings of “ Watch out” in communication?
Key to the question:
1. Utterance meaning: Be careful!
2. Speaker’s meaning: Don’t pull out !
3. Hearer’s meaning:
Something is happening! Look out!
3.9 Characteristics of Communication p.68-73
Dynamic
Symbolic
Interactive
Interpretive
Contextual
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Communication is a dynamic process
Communication is an ongoing, ever changing activity. It is not fixed.
“You can’t stand in the same stream twice.”
When people communicate, they are constantly affected by each other’s messages and as a consequence, people undergo continual change.
Each time one is influenced, one changes in some way and people never stay frozen when in communication.
Once a word or an action is employed, it cannot be retracted.
Communication is symbolic
Communication involves the use of symbols.
A symbol is a word, action, or object that strands for or presents a unit of meanings. Meaning, in turn, is a perception, thought, or feeling that a person experiences and might want to communicate to others.
People’s behaviors are frequently interpreted symbolically, as an external representation of feelings, emotions, and internal states.
Communication is interactive/transactional
Communication must take place between people.
When two or more people communicate, their unique backgrounds and experiences serve as a backdrop for the communication interaction.
Communicators are simultaneously sending and receiving messages at every instant that they are involved in conversations.
There are no such entities as pure senders or pure receivers.
Communication is systemic/contextual
Communication does not occur in isolation or in a vacuum, but rather is part of a larger system.
Setting and environment help determine the words and actions you generate and the meanings you give the symbols produced by other people.
Dress, language, topic selection, and the like are all adapted to context.
People do not act the same way in every environment.
Communication is contextual/systemic
All communication takes place within a setting or situation called a context.
By context, we mean the place where people meet, the social purpose for being together, and the nature of the relationship.
Thus, the context includes the physical, social, and interpersonal settings within which messages are exchanged.
The physical context includes the actual location of the interactants: indoors or outdoors, crowded or quiet, public or private, close together or far apart, warm or cold, bright or dark. The social context refers to the widely shared expectations people have about the kinds of interactions that normally should occur given different kinds of social events.
The interpersonal context refers to the expectations about the behaviors of others as a result of differences in the relationships between them. (examples---p69-70)
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Communication is interpretive
Whenever people communicate, they must interpret the symbolic behaviors of others and assign significance to some of those behaviors in order to create a meaningful account of the other’s actions.
There is no direct mind-to-mind contact between people, you cannot access the thoughts and feelings of other human beings but can only infer what they are experiencing.
Communication is complex
Although all cultures use symbols to share their realities, the specific realities and the symbols employed are often quite different.
People are both alike and different.
Cultural, as well as individual, differences keep people apart.
Members of different cultures look differently at the world around them.
A successful intercultural communicator appreciates similarities and accepts differences.
4. Elements of Communication p.50-56
Context
Participants
Messages
Channels
Noise
Feedback
physical setting
the formality of the conference room
the seating arrangements
lighting
the time of day
the distance between communicators
historical context
previous communication events
psychological context
the manner of perceiving themselves and others
cultural context
communication norms
play the roles of senders and receivers:
senders form messages– encoders;
receivers process the messages and react to them—decoders
variables affecting participants:
---relationships: familiar or unfamiliar
---gender: males or females
---culture: from the same culture or from different cultures
meanings
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the meanings may not be transferred successfully
symbols
words chosen
facial expressions, gestures
tone of voice
encoding and decoding
message encoded may not be decoded as intended
culture and nonverbal factors
---sound, sight, smell, taste, touch
---the nature of the channel selected affects the way a message will be processed
---the impact of a message changes as the channel used to transmit it changes
---the more channels used, the more successful the communication will be
---any stimulus that interferes with the sharing of meaning
external noise
stimuli in the surrounding that distract attention
internal noise
interfering thoughts and feelings inside a communicator
semantic noise
inappropriate choice of words
---noise can function as a communication barrier
verbal response
nonverbal response
serves useful functions for both senders and receivers: it provides senders with the opportunity to measure how they are coming across, and it provides receivers with the opportunity to exert some influence over the communication process.
–-- cultural variables that undermine the communication of intended meaning
Examples of Semantic Noise
一次性用品 :A Time Sex Thing
一次性筷子:One Sex Chopsticks
平时禁止入内 :No entry on peace time
小心溺水:Careful Drowning
童子鸡:Chicken without sexual life
麻婆豆腐: Bean curd made by a pockmarked woman
贵阳:Expensive Sun
干果区 :Fuck the fruit area
Assignments
1. Find a misleading sign in Meizhou and point out what’s wrong and give a correct one.
2. Further Reading I : Understanding Culture p.64-67
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