跨文化交际上课内容unit7

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1、UnitSevenTimeandSpaceAcrossCulturesI.WarmUp1.Pleasereadthestoryonpage156.Whatcanwelearnfromthestory?2.GotoanswerthequestionsonGroupWork(p235-236)andfindoutyoursenseoftime?&Supplement:AdditionalmaterialsII.ChronemicsChronemicsisthestudyofhowpeopleperceiveandusetime.(i)Thesenseoftime:1)Timei

2、slinear线形.Westernculturesthinktimeislinear—aflowfromthepasttothepresenttothefuture.2) Timeiscyclical周期的.Lifeonearthevolvedinresponsetothecyclesofdayandnightandtheebbandflow潮涨潮落ofthetides.(ii)Monochronic出现一次andPolychronicTime(p256-257)1.WhatisM-TimeandP-Time?Whichdoyouthinkisthedominatingti

3、mesysteminourculture?1)Monochronictimemeanspayingattentiontoanddoingonlyonethingatatime–eventsscheduledasseparateitems.2)Polychronictimemeansbeinginvolvedwithmanythingsatonce.2.Whatisthephilosophy哲学underlyingeachofthetimesystem?1)P-timestressesinvolvementofpeopleandcompletion完成of第9页共9页tran

4、sactions事务ratherthanadherenceto遵守presentschedules.Appointmentsarenottakenasseriouslyand,asaconsequence,arefrequentlybroken.P-timeistreatedaslesstangible有形地thanM-time.Weakness:Mattersinapolychromic多彩的cultureseeminaconstantstate恒定常态offlux.Appointmentsarefrequentlybroken.2)InM-timesystem,soci

5、alandbusinesslifeiscommonlyschedule-dominated.Byscheduling,wecompartmentalize划分;thismakesitpossibletoconcentrateon集中注意onethingatatime,butitalsoreducesthecontext.M-timeisalsotangible.M-timeschedulingisusedasaclassificationsystemthatorderslife.Weakness:Lifeingeneralisattimesunpredictable.M-t

6、imereducesthecontextandalienate使疏远peoplefromthemselvesandfromothers.(iii)TheHeartbeatofCulture(p229-232)1.WhatdoestheauthorwanttotellusfromhisexperienceinBrazilandthequestionnairebetweenstudentsinNiteroiandthoseinFresno?ØInBrazil,peopleseemtobeveryflexibleintheirconceptsoftimeandpunctualit

7、y.Braziliansarelikelytoattributelatenessforappointmentstounforeseencircumstances意外情况thatthepersoncouldn’tcontrol.Theyseemlessinclinedto倾向于feelpersonally第9页共9页responsibleforbeinglate.Sotheyexpresslessregretfortheirownlatenessandblameotherslesswhenothersarelate.