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1、CulturalDifferencesinEverydayLifeAbstract:Languageisasystemofarbitraryvocalsymbolsusedforhumancommunication.Culturecanbebrieflydefinedas"thetotalityofbeliefsandpracticesinasociety".Languageisapartofcultureandplaysadecisiveroleinit.Weexchangeourideasandemotionsthrough
2、languagesindifferentcultures,thuswecancommunicatewithpeoplewhoownanotherculture.Butbecauseofthedifferencesbetweencultures,wemaycausesometroubleswhenweexchangeinformation.Thispaperinvestigatestheculturaldifferencesbetweendifferentculturesinoureverydaylife.Bysomeexampl
3、eswewillknowtheproblemsandthesolutionstotheseproblems.KeyWords:cross-culturalcommunication;culturaldifferences;verbalcommunication;nonverbalcommunicationI.IntroductionCommunicationiscommonlydefinedas"theimpartingorinterchangeofthoughts,opinions,andinformationbyspeech
4、,writingorsigns".Cross-culturalcommunicationiscommunicationbetweendifferentcultures.CarlRogersstatesthatrealcommunicationtakesplacewhenwelistenwithunderstanding.Byanalogy,wemayequallysaythatcommunicationcollapseswhenwelistenwithmisunderstanding.Whenglobalizationbecom
5、esafact,thesignificanceofcross-culturalcommunicationisfurtherhighlighted.Failuresincommunicationfromdifferentbackgroundsofcultureswillleadtoculturalstereotypesandconflicts.Learningaforeignlanguagewellmeansmorethanmerelymasteringthepronunciation,grammar,wordsandidioms
6、.Itmeanslearningalsotoseeit,learningthewaysinwhichtheirlanguagereflectstheideas,customs,andbehavioroftheirsociety,learningtounderstandtheir"languageofmind".Learningalanguage,infact,isinseparablefromlearningitsculture.Forproperunderstandingsincross-culturalcommunicati
7、on,somesuggestiveprinciplesareprovidedasbasicguidelinestothisdifficultwork.1.Successfulcommunicationoccurswhenthehearercansee,feel,andunderstandissuesfromthespeaker’spointofview.2.Successfulcommunicationoccurswhenthespeakerandhearerknoweachother’sintention.3.Successf
8、ulcommunicationoccurswhenthetwopartiesadoptadynamicdialoguepattern.Occasionally,non-nativespeakerswithagoodcommandoftheforeignlangu
