跨文化交际课件 Cultural Differences in Verbal Communication

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1、CulturalDifferencesinVerbalCommunicationInthispartyouareexpectedtounderstandsomecommonlyobserveddifferencesbetweenEnglishandChineseverbalcommunicationandlearntomakecross-culturalcomparisonsandanalysisinthefollowingaspects:CulturaldifferencesonlexicallevelCulturaldifferencesonsynta

2、cticlevelCulturaldifferencesondiscourselevelEFLandlanguagetransferCulturaldifferencesonpragmaticlevelCulturalDifferencesonLexicalLevel1.TypesofLexicalMeaning2types:denotationandconnotation.Denotation:theconceptualmeaningofthewordthatdesignatesordescribesthings,eventsorprocesses,et

3、c.Itistheprimary,explicitmeaninggiveninthedefinitionofawordinadictionary.Connotation:theemotionalorstylisticassociationsthatawordorphrasesuggestsinone’smind.Itistheimplicit,supplementaryvaluewhichisaddedtothepurelydenotativemeaningofawordorphrase.DenotationandConnotationDenotative

4、meaningoftheword“mother”is“thefemaleparent”.Connotativemeaningoftheword“mother”istheassociationsweusuallyhavewiththeword—“maternallove”,“care”,“tenderness”,etc.Sowecanhavethesentence“theyoungteacherislikemothertothekids”.MeaningofWordsCulturaldifferencesinlexicalmeaningoccuronboth

5、levelsofdenotativemeaningandconnotativemeaning.2.CulturalDifferencesinDenotativeMeaningAbsenceofreferentinthespeakerorlistener’slanguage“炕”，“节气”，“经络”，“大字报”，“三讲”，“关系”，“太极拳”，“黄梅戏”，“三纲五常”，“玉皇大帝”，“嫦娥奔月”“privacy”,“ThanksgivingDay”,“parliament”Forthesakeofclarityandaccuracy,adequateexpl

6、anationcanbeaddedintranslatingsuchwords.Overlappingofdenotativemeaning3.CulturalDifferencesinConnotativeMeaningsWordswithsamedenotationbutdifferentconnotationse.g.colorwords,animalwordsWordswithconnotationsinonelanguagebutnoneintheothere.g.plantslikepinetree,bamboo,plumblossome.g.

7、numbersCulturalDifferencesonSyntacticLevel1.ParatacticStructurevs.HypotacticStructureParataxis(意合)andhypotaxis(形合)aretwogrammaticaltermsdescribingthewayssentencesarebuiltup.Parataxis:thearrangingofclausesoneafteranotherwithoutconnectivesshowingtherelationbetweenthem.Hypotaxis:depe

8、ndentrelationorconstruction.Chine