TheLanguageforCross-culuralCommunicaion_开题报告

With the development of economic globalization, the whole world is like a big family, no country can survive without any contacting with outside countries. In this situation, cross-cultural communication is becoming more and more important, not only in the international political exchange but also in the international business. This thesis will focus on the language for cross-cultural communication. And English will be a main language example in this paper. As the cross-cultural communication is playing an important role in  economic society. There have been many studies on cross-cultural communication at home and abroad. 

The language for cross-cultural communication situation at abroad: About the difference between cross-cultural communication and inter-cultural communication, no consensus has been achieved when it comes to formulate an interdisciplinary definition which can be accepted across the diverse fields of study(TING-TOOMEY, 1988). About the definition, cross-cultural communication is a scientific field whose object of interest is the interaction between individuals and groups from different cultures, and which examines the influence of culture on who people are, how they act, feel, think and, evidently, speak and listen(DODD, 1991). Cross-cultural communication could be defined as a communicative process involving individuals from reference cultures which are sufficiently different to be perceived as such, with certain personal and contextual barriers having to overcome in order to achieve effective communication(VILA ,2005). About the importance of the language for cross-cultural communication, Chomsky, Noam (1968)said that the role of language is fundamental in cross-cultural and intercultural qualitative research. He would like to give special attention to the mediating role of language in the process. Language is the main medium in which information circulates and it assembles itself as the message transmitter. As VILA (2005) points out, differences between verbal styles as well as affecting communication between people of different reference cultures, may also, if ignored, lead to differences in interpretation. About the barriers of cross-cultural communication, Thais Compoint (2018) introduced six key barriers for cross-cultural communications. They are ethnocentrism, stereotyping, psychological barriers, language barriers, geographical distance and conflicting values.Tara Duggan(2019) introduced some methods which help people to overcome the cross-cultural communication in business. For example, Running meetings to expose your employees to other cultures and coaching employees to mediate conflicts related to cultural misunderstandings. About the perspectives of cross-cultural communication, Tangyie Evani (2018)’s paper sets to examine some perspectives of cross-cultural communication in a multi-linguistic setting like Cameroon where many local and international languages are in close contact. 

The language for cross-cultural communication situation at home: Since China’s reform and opening in 1978, China began to introduce into foreign investments and focus on the policy of opening economy. In this way, China is integrating with the wold market. Since the international business is becoming bigger and bigger, interacting with different countries is increasing year by year. As a result, the study of cross-cultural communication is becoming more and more important. In other words, reform and opening promote the development of cross-cultural communication studies. And Peng’s (2005)paper said that China’s cross-cultural communication study is younger than foreign countries. Its history only has 40 years. He also introduced the problems and situation of China’s cross-cultural communication study. For example, many studies about cross-cultural research have a same or similar substance. And they are short of innovation. The scope of researching field is limited and many researchers just focus on language and foreign language teaching. But about the relation of cross-cultural communication and foreign language teaching, HU(2014)said that they have an inseparable relationship. He said that foreign language teaching not only impart language knowledge but also cultivate students’ communicative competence and cross-cultural communication skills. He also pointed the problems which foreign language is facing out. For example, many students just concentrate on comprehension of words and sentences but ignore the whole article’s meaning.

B. ^范文提纲

1 Introduction

2 The Definition of Cross-cultural Communication

2.1Verbal Cross-cultural Communication

2.2Nonverbal Cross-cultural Communication

3 The Necessity on the Language for Cross-cultural Communication

4 The Barriers and Methods on the Language for Cross-cultural Communication

4.1 The Barriers on the Language for Cross-cultural Communication

4.2 The Methods on the Language for Cross-cultural Communication

5 The Perspectives on the Language for Cross-cultural Communication

5.1The Perspectives on the Language for Cross-cultural Communication  in China

5.2The Perspectives on the Language for Cross-cultural Communication at abroad

6 Conclusion

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