Verbal-Intercultural-Communication

L/O/G/OVerbalInterculturalCommunicationGroupThree陈国文晁大力张青青戚萌秦凯丽VERBALINTERCULTURALCOMMUNICATION’sOurJobasanEncoder?Youmaythinkthatifyouhavefulfilledyoupartinencodingtheideathenitisuptotherecipienttoplayhisparttodecodethemessage.Butaneffectivecommunicatorensuresthathistargetrecipientunderstandswhatisbeingcommunicated.•ElizaDoolittleisayoungwomanwithastrongCockneyaccentwhoissellingflowersonthestreet.•HenryHiggins,anarrogantprofessorofphonetics,hecanteachanywomantospeakso“properly”.•Takingspecialeffortinencodingyouridea,withthetargetrecipientinmind.Itisimportanttonotethatthewords,toneandactionsthatyouchoosetoencodeyouridearepresentspecificcontentmeaning.therefore,choosethemwisely.•Youhavetokeepthetargetrecipientinmind.Doestherecipientunderstandthewordsused?Doestherecipienthavethematurityandenoughexperiencetounderstandwhatisbeingcommunicated?Whatshouldwenoticewhenweencode?•Languageisasetofcodesandsymbols,alongwiththerulesforcombiningthemtogether.•groupsofpeoplespeakandwritedifferentlanguages.•Languagedifferentiateshumansandmakesthemuniquefromallcreatures.•Allhumansneedtointeract,andthemostobviousformofcommunicationisverbal,ororalcommunication.•Whenyoucommunicateverbally,youbuildandmaintainrelationships,expressopinions,shareknowledge,improvebusinessesanddevelopanunderstandingofyourculture.Correctandreasonableuseoflanguagecouldachieveeffectiveresultinverbalinterculturalcommunication.，suchasphonology（语音体系）,morphology（词态学）,syntax（句法学）andsemantics（语义学）,isstillnotenoughforeffectivecommunication,forlanguageandculturecannotbeseparated.Theyareintertwined（缠结）,shapingeachother.VerbalInterculturalCommunicationCultureandWordMeaning1.Worddifferencesareobviousinvariouslanguages.Therelationbetweenwordanditsmeaningisarbitrary(任意的).Forexample,weliveinahouseinEnglish,wealsoliveinacasainSpanishandwestillliveinabaninThai.2.CorrespondingChinesewordscannotalwaysexplaintheEnglishwords.a.Wordswithdifferentassociatedmeaningsb.Wordswithoutcounterpartinanotherlanguagec.ProverbsVerbalInterculturalCommunication（联想的）meanings.Theculturally-loadedwordsandexpressionsaregoodexamplesshowingtheculturalinfluenceonthemeaningsofwords.ChinesewordEnglishwordAssociatedmeaninginChineseAssociatedmeaninginEnglish凤凰phoenixsymboloffortuneandqueensymbolofrenaissance龙dragonsymbolofemperorsymbolofevil蝙蝠batsymboloffortunesymbolofevil(凤凰)ChinesePhoenix(凤凰)VerbalInterculturalCommunication(龙)EnglishDragon(龙)VerbalInterculturalCommunication(蝙蝠)ChineseBat(蝙蝠)Chapter6VerbalInterculturalCommunication•Languagereflectsculture,andculturaldiversityleadstothelackofvocabularyequivalence,conceptequivalenceandexperienceequivalence.Therefore,therearealotofwordsthatwefailtofindthecounterpartsinanotherlanguage.Forexample,theEnglishword“hippies”,“motel”,wecannotfindexactcounterpartinChinese.AmericanHippiesinthe1960sAmericanMotel•Proverbsarefruitsofwisdom.Proverbsreflectreligion,morality,values,andlifeexperience.ChineseculturehasbeengreatlyinfluencedbyConfucianphilosophy(儒学)emphasizingthesocialrelationships.Verba