UNIT 1 Communication Across Cultures 1
WARM UP 1
PART ONE 2
Sharing Knowledge:Compliment response 2
Survey 3
Reading Ⅰ Communicating Across Cultural Lines 4
Case Study 1 8
Discovering Problems:What was wrong? 9
Disussion 11
PART TWO 11
Reading Ⅱ The Era of Intercultural Communication 12
Debate 16
Writing 16
Case Study 2-3 17
Fill-in Task 19
Identifying Difference:Addressing 21
Group Work 24
Translation 25
PART THREE 25
Further Reading Ⅰ Stumbling Blocks in Intercultural Communication 25
Further Reading Ⅱ Communication in a Global Village 32
UNIT 2 Culture and Communication 38
WARMUP 38
PART ONE 39
Reading Ⅰ What IS Culture 39
Case Study4-6 45
Translation 47
Group Work 48
Writing 49
PART TWO 50
Reading Ⅱ Elements of Communication 50
Fill-in Task 59
Discussion 60
Discovering Problems:Commercial signs 60
Identifying Difference:Little things 61
PART THREE 63
Further Reading Ⅰ Culture 63
Further Reading Ⅱ Communication and Its Characteristics 68
UNIT 3 Cultural Differences 74
WARM UP 74
PART ONE 75
Group Work 75
Reading Ⅰ Different Lands,Different Friendships 76
Debate 81
Case Study 7-9 81
Cultural Information:American friendship 83
Discussion 85
Survey 85
PART TWO 86
Reading Ⅱ Comparing and Contrasting Cultures 87
Fill-in Task 93
Writing 93
Sharing Knowledge:Family structure 94
Case Study 10-13 96
Identifying Difference:Living situations 99
Reading Ⅲ So Near the United States 101
Translation 106
PART THREE 107
Further Reading Ⅰ Cultural Dimensions 107
Further Reading Ⅱ High-Context and Low-Context Cultures 113
UNIT 4 Language and Culture 119
WARM UP 119
PART ONE 120
Group Work 120
Sharing Knowledge:Language as an environment 121
Reading Ⅰ How to Talk About the World 123
Identifying Difference:Kinship terms and more 128
Reading Ⅱ We Are at the Mercy of Our Language 130
Fill—in Task 135
Writing 136
PART TWO 136
Discovering Problems:Translating across languages 136
Case Study 14-16 140
Reading Ⅲ Language as Communication and Language as Culture 145
Translation 149
PART THREE 150
Further Reading Ⅰ The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis 150
Further Reading Ⅱ Language,Thought,and Culture 154
UNIT 5 Verbal Communication 159
WARM UP 159
PART ONE 160
Reading Ⅰ Understanding the Culture of Conversation 160
Case Study 17 163
Fill-in Task 164
Sharing Knowledge:Yes and no 165
Reading Ⅱ Communication Is Culturally Relative 172
Discussion 178
Group Work 178
PART TWO 179
Reading Ⅲ Chinese Discourse Style 179
Case Study 18-19 183
Identifying Difference:Telephone calls 184
Reading Ⅳ Discourse Patterns and World Views 186
Writing 188
Translation 188
PART THREE 189
Further Reading Ⅰ The Impact of Confucianism on Communication 189
Further Reading Ⅱ Foundations of Indian Verbal Communication 194
UNIT 6 Nonverbal Communication 200
WARM UP 200
PART ONE 201
Reading Ⅰ An Overview of Nonverbal Communication 201
Matching Task 213
Case Study 20-22 214
Group Work 217
PART TWO 217
Reading Ⅱ Some Nonverbal Patterns in the Black Culture 217
Fill-in Task 222
Cultural Information:Bowing in Japan 224
Writing 225
Discussion 226
Translation 227
PART THREE 227
Further Reading Ⅰ Functions of Nonverbal Communication 227
Further Reading Ⅱ Silence in Western Apache Culture 231
UNIT 7 Time and Space 238
WARM UP 238
PART ONE 239
Reading Ⅰ The Silent Language 239
Group Work 242
Reading Ⅱ Social Time:The Heartbeat of Culture 244
Case Study 23-24 248
Debate 251
Identifying Difference:Pace of life 251
Translation 253
Writing 253
PART TWO 254
Reading Ⅲ Personal Space 254
Case Study 25 256
Reading Ⅳ Home and Culture 258
Fill-in Task 262
Case Study 26-27 264
PART THREE 266
Further Reading Ⅰ German Patterns in Space Use 266
Further Reading Ⅱ Monochronic and Polychronic Time 271
UNIT 8 Intercultural Perception 277
WARM UP 277
PART ONE 278
Reading Ⅰ French Leave and Dutch Courage 278
Sharing Knowledge:Culture and perception 282
Reading Ⅱ Gaijin 285
Survey 288
Discussion 289
PART TWO 290
Reading Ⅲ Ethnocentrism 290
Case Study 28 294
Discovering Problems:The image of Arabs 296
Fill-in Task 297
Group Work 299
Writing 301
Reading Ⅳ Behaviors That Separate Us 302
Translation 306
PART THREE 307
Further Reading Ⅰ Forms of Prejudice 307
Further Reading Ⅱ The Nature of Mindfulness 312
UNIT 9 Intercultural Understanding 318
WARM UP 318
PART ONE 319
Reading Ⅰ Shakespeare in the Bush 319
Case Study 29-31 325
Group Work 328
Reading Ⅱ Improving Intercultural Communication 331
PART TWO 335
Reading Ⅲ The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl 335
Case Study 32-33 338
Reading Ⅳ A Very Lucky Daughter 340
Writing 346
Sharing Knowledge:Steps in cultural understanding 346
Fill-in Task 349
Translation 349
PART THREE 350
Further Reading Ⅰ Communicating Effectively with Strangers 350
Further Reading Ⅱ Cross-cultural Awareness 355
UNIT 10 Intercultural Adaptation 362
WARM UP 362
PART ONE 363
Group Work 363
Reading Ⅰ Culture Shock 365
Sharing Knowledge:Two views of culture shock 371
Reading Ⅱ Letters from the U.S.A 373
Discovering Problems:Chinese students abroad 377
Case Stuay 34-35 378
Test Yourself 379
PART TWO 380
Reading Ⅲ Love Without Borders 380
Fill-in Task 383
Reading Ⅳ Living in Two Cultures 385
Discussion 391
Writing 392
Translation 393
PART THREE 393
Further Reading Ⅰ Retum Culture Shock 393
Further Reading Ⅱ A Wager on Hope 398
Key to Some of the Exercises 403
Acknowledgements 412