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Unit 1

Language and Culture in Communication

1.Fill in blanks

a. There are here-------- Chinese equivalents to communication in Mainland. 交际( ) 交流( ) 沟通( ) 传播( ) 通信( ) 交通( ) 传理( )

b. There must be ___________conditions for communication to take place. c. There are _______ kinds of communication.

d. The two kinds of cross-cultural communication are _______ and ______. e. In any forms of communication, mono-cultural, unilateral and bilateral cross-cultural alike, ______ is the essence.

f. You complain to your instructor about your course credits through telephone is a________ example of communication.

g. You send an e-mail message to an American friend is an instance of communication but______.

h. An Arabic traveler talks to you in Arabic that is Greek to you is an instance of_________.

i. The community definition of a social situation is a sort of ______ definition, or ______ interpretation of the situation.

j. In cross-cultural communication, private goals are difficult to detect and are likely to cause ______.

k. A social situation may receive two definitions. They are____________________ and ______________.

l. The verbal message of shrug is a non-verbal signal of_________________. m. The verbal message of thank is a non-verbal signal of________________. n.

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_______________________________________. Ⅱ. Key Terms a. language

b. non-verbal communication c. cross-cultural communication d. situational schema e. signal f. culture

g. communication h.. mutual monitoring i. value j. competence Ⅲ. Short Answer

1. Give some best and not good instances of communication. 2. How to understand a mutual monitoring? a. Types of communication.

b. Cultural influencing factors of cross-cultural communication. c. b. collectivist culture c. hospitality Ⅳ. Case study

Use the communication theory to analyze the following case:

Xiao Huang meets Evelyn at the airport and says to her: \ 1)The source of information is: ______. 2)The encoder is: ______. 3)The code is: ______. 4)The message is: \ 5)The channel is: ______. 6)The medium is: ______. 7)The noise is: ______. 8)The decoder is: ______.

9)The retrieval of information is: ______.

Keys To Unit One Ⅰ.Fill in the blanks. a. 6 b. 4 c. 5

d. unilateral cross-cultural communication, bilateral cross-cultural communication e. meaning exchange f. best

g. Yes, but not very good. h. non-communication i. official,official j. misunderstanding

k. one of the community and one of the participants. l. raising one’s shoulders up and down. m. holding one’s hands in a fist in front n. borrow books II. Key Terms

a. language. a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols (\

b. While we speak with our vocal organs we converse with our whole bodies. In addition to the words we use we convey a whole variety of information to others with our bodies. This is non-verbal communication.

c.It refers to the communication between the people with different cultural backgrounds.

d. It refers to the rules and procedures that govern the way things are going to proceed.

e. It means an element of the behavior, appearance, etc., of one organism that is received by the sense organs of a second organism and affects its behavior. f. Culture means: