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1、CulturalDifferencesinEverydayLifeAbstract:Languageisasystemofarbitraryvocalsymbolsusedforhumancommunication.Culturecanbebrieflydefinedas"thetotalityofbeliefsandpracticesinasociety".Languageisapartofcultureandplaysadecisiveroleinit.Weexchangeourideasandemotionsthroughlan
2、guagesindifferentcultures,thuswecancommunicatewithpeoplewhoownanotherculture.Butbecauseofthedifferencesbetweencultures,wemaycausesometroubleswhenweexchangeinformation.Thispaperinvestigatestheculturaldifferencesbetweendifferentculturesinoureverydaylife.Bysomeexampleswewi
3、llknowtheproblemsandthesolutionstotheseproblems.KeyWords:cross-culturalcommunication;culturaldifferences;verbalcommunication;nonverbalcommunicationI.IntroductionCommunicationiscommonlydefinedas"theimpartingorinterchangeofthoughts,opinions,andinformationbyspeech,writingo
4、rsigns".Cross-culturalcommunicationiscommunicationbetweendifferentcultures.CarlRogersstatesthatrealcommunicationtakesplacewhenwelistenwithunderstanding.Byanalogy,wemayequallysaythatcommunicationcollapseswhenwelistenwithmisunderstanding.Whenglobalizationbecomesafact,thes
5、ignificanceofcross-culturalcommunicationisfurtherhighlighted.Failuresincommunicationfromdifferentbackgroundsofcultureswillleadtoculturalstereotypesandconflicts.Learningaforeignlanguagewellmeansmorethanmerelymasteringthepronunciation,grammar,wordsandidioms.Itmeanslearnin
6、galsotoseeit,learningthewaysinwhichtheirlanguagereflectstheideas,customs,andbehavioroftheirsociety,learningtounderstandtheir"languageofmind".Learningalanguage,infact,isinseparablefromlearningitsculture.Forproperunderstandingsincross-culturalcommunication,somesuggestivep
7、rinciplesareprovidedasbasicguidelinestothisdifficultwork.1.Successfulcommunicationoccurswhenthehearercansee,feel,andunderstandissuesfromthespeaker’spointofview.2.Successfulcommunicationoccurswhenthespeakerandhearerknoweachother’sintention.3.Successfulcommunicationoccurs
8、whenthetwopartiesadoptadynamicdialoguepattern.Occasionally,non-nativespeakerswithagoodcommandoftheforeignlangu
