Foundations of Intercultural Communication

《跨文化交际学基础》是外语专业文化类选修课程，可以定位为外语专业核心通识课；同时也可以作为《大学英语》跨文化交际板块课程或拓展选修课。
1.课程知识目标
1)认知跨文化交际学科的核心概念；2)了解跨文化相关理论和研究范式；3)掌握中西文化知识，特别是中国传统文化；4）熟悉国家战略、区域特色，牢记国家大政方针、政策；5）具备一定的汉语、外语语言知识和跨文化传播知识。
  2.课程能力目标
1）具备思辨意识、世界公民意识和跨文化意识；2）能够合理运用跨文化理论分析解决跨文化冲突问题；3）具备公共外交意识和外语沟通能力；4）能够用所学外语讲述中国故事、传播中国优秀文化。
  3.课程德育目标

1）培养学生树立跨文化交际意识和人类命运共同体意识；2）培养学生理解中国文化核心价值观，坚定文化自信，树立正确的价值观；3）提升学生以“包容、互鉴”的态度看待中外文化差异，领悟世界文化的多样性、丰富性以及民心相通的重要性；4）引导学生了解中、外不同的世界观、价值观和思维方式的差异，运用文化智力和跨文化沟通能力提升国家形象；5）通过中西文化对比，培养学生全球视野、跨文化思维、公共外交意识、家国情怀和民族自信。

Introduction to the Course

Based on the study of 1.1 PPT above, please check your understanding:

Quiz 1: Which communication is intercultural?

Quiz 2: Study related terms and identify different forms of intercultural communication.

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The Silent Language(1959) by Edward T. Hall: Brief Introduction

In the everyday, but unspoken give-and-take of human relationships, the "silent language" plays a vitally important role. Here, a leading American anthropologist has analyzed the many ways in which people "talk" to one another without the use of words.

The pecking order in a chicken yard, the fierce competition in a school playground, every unwitting gesture and action—this is the vocabulary of the "silent language." According to Dr. Hall, the concepts of space and time are tools with which all human beings may transmit messages. Space, for example, is the outgrowth of an animal's instinctive defense of his lair and is reflected in human society by the office worker's jealous defense of his desk, or the guarded, walled patio of a Latin-American home. Similarly, the concept of time, varying from Western precision to Easter vagueness, is revealed by the businessman who pointedly keeps a client waiting, or the South Pacific islander who murders his neighbor for an injustice suffered twenty years ago.

"THE SILENT LANGUAGE shows how cultural factors influence the individual behind his back, wihtout his knowledge."
Silent Language