英语学习者对中、日、美三国人的刻板印象

Stereotypes of Chinese,Japanese and Americans as Held by English Major Students

采用Kuhn和McPartland的文本分析研究方法,在115名英语本科生中进行对中国人、日本人和美国人的刻板印象调查。样本在没有受到任何限制的情况下,完全根据自己的主观感觉分别写出其对中国人、日本人和美国人的认知和印象。然后,样本写出的3组句子中出现频率最高的前10个形容词被分离出来进行对比分析。数据分析结果发现:样本对社会内部集团和外部集团成员所持的刻板印象和归因差异。

Using the method of Kuhn and McPartland, we investigated stereotypes of Chinese, Americans, and Japanese as held by a Chinese sample of EngLish major students. The students were, under no restrictions, required to write as many sentences in Chinese as possible describing their perceptions and impressions respectively of Chinese, Japanese, and Americans. Then the first ten adjectives with the highest frequencies in the produced sentences describing Chinese, Japanese, and Americans were selected and tabulated for analysis. Data analysis discovered differences in stereotypes and attributions resulting from the outgroup-ingroup division. This study may provide a new approach to the study of intercultural communication in China.