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跨文化交际英语教程课后答案
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一：新编跨文化交际英语教程
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参考答案
unit 6
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ture and nonverbal communication
reading i
an overview of
nonverbal communication comprehension
questions
1. can you speak
each of the following sentences in different
ways to mean differently?
1)
she is my best friend.
2) you?ve done
really good job. 3) come here,
please.
4) that?s all right.
speaking the same sentence with the stress on
different
words may mean different
things. for instance, if the stress
falls on
“
she
”
in the first sentnece, it means it is
she, not you
or somebody else, that is
my best friend. but if the stress falls
on
“
my
”
,
it implies that she is my, not your or somebody?s
best friend.
2.
speakers of british english use loudness only when
they
are angry, speakers of indian
english use it to get the floor, a
chance to speak. so when an indian
speaker is trying to get the
floor,
what would the british speaker think of the indian
and
what would the british behave in
response?
the british speaker may
think that the indian gets angry with
him or behaves rudely towards him, so
he may complain about
the indian?s
rudeness or even return his rudeness as a
response.
3.
what differences in body language use have you
noticed
between your chinese teachers
and foreign teachers?
there are really
some differences between chinese teachers
and foreign teachers in their use of
body language. for
instance, chinese
teachers in general do not use gestures as
much as foreign teachers do, and their
facial expressions often
seem to be
less varied than those of many foreign teachers.
4. do you know any gestures
we often use that might be
misunderstood by people from other
cultures?
for example, the way we
chinese motion to others to come
over
might be misunderstood by people from some western
countries to mean bye-bye.
5. how do we chinese people use eye
contact in
communication?
during a conversation between two chinese, it
seems that the
speaker and the hearer
would usually look at each other (not
necessarily in the eye) from time to
time. how much eye-
contact there is
may depend on the relationship between the
speaker and hearer and the situation
they find themselves in.
6.
how will you eye them when you are communicating
with
people from the united states or
people from japan?
while talking with
americans, we should look directly into the
eyes of the person with whom we are
talking. however; while
talking with
japanese, we are not expected to look at them in
the eye but at a position around the
adam?s apple.
7. do you often smile at
others? why or why not?
it depends.
for instance, it seems that we chinese, as well as
people of other eastern asian
countries, do not usually smile at
strangers as much as americans.
8. what function(s) may laughter serve
in our culture? does it
sometimes cause
intercultural misunderstanding?
laughter in our culture may serve various
functions.
sometimes, it is used to
express amusement or ridicule, and
sometimes it is simply used to make one
feel less
embarrassed.
9. do you often touch others while
talking with them? whom
do you touch
more than others?
we chinese generally
do not often touch others while talking
with them unless they are our intimate
friends or younger
children.
10. in small groups or in
pairs, demonstrate all the possible
ways you can think of to greet another
person. is touching
always part of a
greeting?
no. touching is not always
part of a greeting in our culture as
in
some other cultures.
11.
will you apologize if you accidentally touch other
people
in public places? why or why
not?
many people will apologize if
they accidentally touch other
people in
public places since in our culture people who
are
strangers to each other should not
touch. however, whether
people will
apologize or not depends on the situations. if a
person accidentally touches a stranger
in a very crowded
place, he or she may
not apologize for it.
reading ii
gender and nonverbal communication
comprehension
questions
1.
what may often happen to those who do not conform
to
their culture?s accepted gender
“
script
”?
there are
often severe social penalties for those who act in
violation of their culture?s accepted
gender
―
script.
2. does touch have any connotation in
different situations?
can you give some
specific examples?
touch, like
physical closeness, may be considered an
expression of affection, support, or
sexual attraction. for
instance, in
some cultures, it may be all right for women
friends and relatives to walk arm-in-
arm, dance together, and
hug one
another, but if men do so, they may be frowned
upon,
for it would be considered as
having the connotation of being
homosexual.
3.
what will possibly happen to a woman who is
appreciably
taller than the man?
taller women may attempt to diminish
themselves, to slouch
and round their
shoulders so as to retreat or to occupy as little
space as possible.
4. are men and women required to have
the same facial
expressions? does smile
mean the same things to both men
and
women?
men and women are not usually
required to have the same
facial
expressions. smile may mean different things to
men
and women. for females smile
functions as an expression of
pleasure,
pleasantness, or a desire for approval, while
males
may resist any nonverbal display
of expression to others in
order to
appear more masculine, because being facially
expressive is often seen as a marker of
―
femininity.
5.
why are the african-american women less
deferential than
white women and less
inclined to smile?
african-american
women are found to be less deferential than
white women and, therefore, less
inclined to smile, simply
because it is
expected of them to be so in their culture.