the Summary of Intercultural Communication (extra notes)

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Q: What is genocide?
A:

• Subtle nonverbal behavior: a dirty look
• Obscene hand gestures
• Arms-length prejudice
• Verbal insults
• Exclusion from job or other opportunites
• Physical violence
• Systematic elimination of the group

Q: Functions of Nonverbal Communication:
A:

1. We use nonverbal communication to duplicate verbal communication.
2. replace
3. complement
4. accent
5. regulate
6. contradict

能联系ICC，就联系ICC

• Use key words to remember.
• Use sentences to answer.

Q: What is culture shock?
A: anxiety resulting from the disorientation encountered upon entering a new culture.

1. estrangement
2. hostility
3. frustration
4. fear
5. anger
6. even physical illness

Knowledge

1. Declarative knowledge (‘know that‘)
   a. Knowledge about other countries and the identities of interlocutor.
   b. Knowledge about one’s own culture.
2. Procedural knowledge (‘know how‘)
   a. How to act in specific circumstances.
   b. How to respond to specific features of interaction with a particular individual

Skills

1. Interpreting: the ability to explain a document from one country for someone from another.
2. Relating: the ability to identify or establish relationships between documents from different countries.
3. Discovery: the ability to recognize significant phenomena in a foriegn environment to dicit their meanings and connotations and their relationship to other phenomena.
4. Interaction: the ability to manage these constraints in particular circumstances with specific interlocutors.

Critical cultural awareness

1. An ability to evaluate critically and on the basis of explicit criteria perspective, practices and products in one’s own and other countries and cultures.
2. To identify evaluate and mediate in intercultural communication.