Edward Hall offers us an effective means of examining cultural similarities and differences,that is the classification of high-context and low-context culture.The paper attempts to analyze a case of a Chinese refusal ...Edward Hall offers us an effective means of examining cultural similarities and differences,that is the classification of high-context and low-context culture.The paper attempts to analyze a case of a Chinese refusal from the perspective of highcontext and low-context communication and explores the differences between the two types of communication.展开更多
The Wedding Banquet is a movie about a gay Taiwan Residents immigrant man who marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card. His plan backfires and things get out of hand when his pa...The Wedding Banquet is a movie about a gay Taiwan Residents immigrant man who marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card. His plan backfires and things get out of hand when his parents arrive in the United States to plan his wedding banquet. Based on Hall's theory of high-context and low-context culture, this paper analyzes the cultural conflicts in the movie from six perspectives, and offers suggestions to the harmonious development of China and America. It is hoped that the paper can help readers get an in-depth comprehension of Hall's theory of high-context and low-context culture and discover some invisible conflicts between China and the West and finally raise people's consciousness of cultural conflicts and ways of handling the conflicts. With the advancement of globalization, intercultural communicative competence is becoming more and more important, and social communication between China and the West will become more relaxed and fruitful if people acquire more knowledge in intercultural communication.展开更多
Understanding communicative differences in intercultural communication is of fundamental importance.However,misinterpretations into various cultures are ubiquitous in the world.In order to comprehend the communicative...Understanding communicative differences in intercultural communication is of fundamental importance.However,misinterpretations into various cultures are ubiquitous in the world.In order to comprehend the communicative differences systematically,this study applies the theory of high-context and low-context by Hall(1976)to illustrate these communicative differences between China and America through analyzing specific episodes in the film of Gua Sha,the Treatment.展开更多
As a work that reflects culture differences between China and America, the Joy Luck Club has drawn a wide attention from scholars whose researches are more of holistic analyses from a macro perspective of cross-cultur...As a work that reflects culture differences between China and America, the Joy Luck Club has drawn a wide attention from scholars whose researches are more of holistic analyses from a macro perspective of cross-cultural communication. In accordance with the degree of dependence of semantic on dialogue context and dialogue language itself, Edward Hall divides culture into high-context culture and low-context culture, and holds that Chinese culture is a high-context culture, while American culture is a low- context one. According to Hall's theory, the Sino- US cultural conflicts reflected by the mother- daughter conflicts in the Joy Luck Club can be analyzed from high-context and low-context culture perspective. And after conflicts, there finally will be a harmonious trend of Sino-US culture development, changing from clash and conflict to convergence and integration.展开更多
The concept of high-low context was firstly put forward by an American anthropologist Edward Hall in 1976. Hereafter, more and more social scientists come to realize the importance of this concept on the thorough unde...The concept of high-low context was firstly put forward by an American anthropologist Edward Hall in 1976. Hereafter, more and more social scientists come to realize the importance of this concept on the thorough understanding of the crossculture discrepancy. This article compares the difference between Chinese(representative of high- context culture) and English(representative of low-context culture) in terms of verbal communication patterns. In addition to a discussion of students' common difficulties and inappropriate habits in writing resulting from their mother- tongue and Chinese thinking- mode, it offers some constructive suggestions for students concerning their instruction of writing and aims to achieve good results in the English writing test. It's proved that degradation treatment is necessary and effective in English-writing by using some direct, concrete and vivid words to achieve the effect of veracity and proper statement.展开更多
According to Edward Hall,cultures can be categorized as being either high or low context.Chinese culture is typically high-context culture.The paper tries to explore the mode of information transfer in high-context cu...According to Edward Hall,cultures can be categorized as being either high or low context.Chinese culture is typically high-context culture.The paper tries to explore the mode of information transfer in high-context cultures in terms of Red Cliff.The discussion will be focused on dialogues and the costume.This will help understand the characteristics of high-context culture and make the communication between people from cultures of different contexts easier.展开更多
Nowadays, cross-cultural study is turning to pragmatic fields concerning communication, such as business negotiation,overseas life and language teaching, etc. This paper reviews previous studies of culture and communi...Nowadays, cross-cultural study is turning to pragmatic fields concerning communication, such as business negotiation,overseas life and language teaching, etc. This paper reviews previous studies of culture and communication, attempting to reveal how to have affective communication from perspective of cultural context by case studies. As a result, theoretical foundation and case studies prove that although we have cooperative principles as general guidelines for communication, cultural awareness, especially awareness of High Context(HC) and Low Context(LC), still plays a key role in cross-cultural communication by making up for the lost of meaning while transmission.展开更多
文摘Edward Hall offers us an effective means of examining cultural similarities and differences,that is the classification of high-context and low-context culture.The paper attempts to analyze a case of a Chinese refusal from the perspective of highcontext and low-context communication and explores the differences between the two types of communication.
文摘The Wedding Banquet is a movie about a gay Taiwan Residents immigrant man who marries a mainland Chinese woman to placate his parents and get her a green card. His plan backfires and things get out of hand when his parents arrive in the United States to plan his wedding banquet. Based on Hall's theory of high-context and low-context culture, this paper analyzes the cultural conflicts in the movie from six perspectives, and offers suggestions to the harmonious development of China and America. It is hoped that the paper can help readers get an in-depth comprehension of Hall's theory of high-context and low-context culture and discover some invisible conflicts between China and the West and finally raise people's consciousness of cultural conflicts and ways of handling the conflicts. With the advancement of globalization, intercultural communicative competence is becoming more and more important, and social communication between China and the West will become more relaxed and fruitful if people acquire more knowledge in intercultural communication.
文摘Understanding communicative differences in intercultural communication is of fundamental importance.However,misinterpretations into various cultures are ubiquitous in the world.In order to comprehend the communicative differences systematically,this study applies the theory of high-context and low-context by Hall(1976)to illustrate these communicative differences between China and America through analyzing specific episodes in the film of Gua Sha,the Treatment.
文摘As a work that reflects culture differences between China and America, the Joy Luck Club has drawn a wide attention from scholars whose researches are more of holistic analyses from a macro perspective of cross-cultural communication. In accordance with the degree of dependence of semantic on dialogue context and dialogue language itself, Edward Hall divides culture into high-context culture and low-context culture, and holds that Chinese culture is a high-context culture, while American culture is a low- context one. According to Hall's theory, the Sino- US cultural conflicts reflected by the mother- daughter conflicts in the Joy Luck Club can be analyzed from high-context and low-context culture perspective. And after conflicts, there finally will be a harmonious trend of Sino-US culture development, changing from clash and conflict to convergence and integration.
文摘The concept of high-low context was firstly put forward by an American anthropologist Edward Hall in 1976. Hereafter, more and more social scientists come to realize the importance of this concept on the thorough understanding of the crossculture discrepancy. This article compares the difference between Chinese(representative of high- context culture) and English(representative of low-context culture) in terms of verbal communication patterns. In addition to a discussion of students' common difficulties and inappropriate habits in writing resulting from their mother- tongue and Chinese thinking- mode, it offers some constructive suggestions for students concerning their instruction of writing and aims to achieve good results in the English writing test. It's proved that degradation treatment is necessary and effective in English-writing by using some direct, concrete and vivid words to achieve the effect of veracity and proper statement.
文摘According to Edward Hall,cultures can be categorized as being either high or low context.Chinese culture is typically high-context culture.The paper tries to explore the mode of information transfer in high-context cultures in terms of Red Cliff.The discussion will be focused on dialogues and the costume.This will help understand the characteristics of high-context culture and make the communication between people from cultures of different contexts easier.
文摘Nowadays, cross-cultural study is turning to pragmatic fields concerning communication, such as business negotiation,overseas life and language teaching, etc. This paper reviews previous studies of culture and communication, attempting to reveal how to have affective communication from perspective of cultural context by case studies. As a result, theoretical foundation and case studies prove that although we have cooperative principles as general guidelines for communication, cultural awareness, especially awareness of High Context(HC) and Low Context(LC), still plays a key role in cross-cultural communication by making up for the lost of meaning while transmission.
