《跨文化交际》期末考试复习题
Part I. Define the following items.
1. Maslow chart
2. encoding and decoding
3. Hofstede’s cultural dimensions
4. connotation
5. denotation
6. high involvement style
7. high considerateness style
8. French leave
9. ethnorelativism
10. reverse culture shock
Part II. Answer the following questions in about 300 words.
1. Why do many Chinese people tend to ask about age, martial status, and even salary when first meeting one another?
2. How is language related to culture? Use examples to support your views.
3. What cultural implications are there underlying the difference between speaker-responsibility and listener-responsibility in organizational structure?
4. Describing the differences of non-verbal communication styles between Chinese and Americans. Take examples to support your ideas.
5. Why do prejudice and discrimination occur in the intercultural communicaton? And what should we do to overcome them?
6. How to deal with culture shock and adapt to the new culture successfully?