A Study of the Teaching Effects of Case Analysis in Cross-Cultural Communication Class-Taking Individualism-Collectivism Cultural Dimension Class as an Example

This study introduces the individualism-collectivism dimension of the cultural dimension of cross-cultural communication initiated by Geert Hofstede.Different cultures must develop a way of correlating that strikes a balance between caring for themselves and showing concern for others.Individualist culture encourages uniqueness and independence while collectivist culture emphasizes conformity and mutual assistance.This article introduces how to use case analysis method to effectively carry out classroom teaching in this cultural dimension.

A Comparative Study between Chinese and Western Food Culture in Cross-cultural Communication

The differences of food culture play an important role in cross-cultural communication.Learn the cultural rooted causes of food culture between Chinese and Western countries,will promote mutual understanding between people and enjoy different feelings different foods brings,enhance cultural exchange,complement and integration.

A Study on Cross-cultural Barriers in Reading of English

This paper,from the perspective of cross-cultural communication,is trying to analyze the role of cultural knowledge in reading comprehension,and to generalize the comprehension barriers Chinese students meet in the comprehension process of English reading and explain the relationship between the barriers and language.The paper then analyzes the internal causes of the barriers.And lastly,it brings forth approaches and methods for eliminating the barriers.

A Cross-Cultural Study on Transformational Leadership

This paper examines transformational leadership theory and the relationship between transformational leadership and group performance as well. Transformational leadership asks leaders to understand the needs of followers and motivate followers for their overall development, which brings benefits to a group. It is hoped that this paper can contribute to comparative studies on Transformational leadership in the U.S. and China.

A Study of Pragmatic Failure of Address Forms in Cross-cultural Communication

As the process of globalization moves on,cross-cultural communication has been a part of people' s daily lives.It is quite important for people to know how to behave properly in many situations.The present study analyses the phenomena of pragmatic failure of address forms.The study may help enhance peoples' awareness on polite address in cross-cultural communi cation and improve their communicative competence.Foreign language teachers can get implications for their teaching methods,paying more attention on cultural teaching.In addition,the author hopes that equal cultural communication and multi-cultural concept can be achieved.

Nonverbal Communication and Emojis Usage in Arabic Tweets: A Cross-Cultural Study

People spend most of their time communicating their thoughts, ideas, attitudes, and emotions on social media platforms like Twitter, however, an important mode of communication as the nonverbal component which requires visual and audible cues is not allowed due to the nature of these text-based platforms. The aim of this research is to discover the alternative ways Arabs use across different dialects to compensate for the absence of the nonverbal component. To be able to discover that the researchers collected a corpus of tweets written in the Arabic language by using python through the Twitter application programming interface (API). The results can be summed up as follows: emojis helped Arabs to communicate their facial expressions and the top used emoji across the different dialects was Face with Tears of Joy, it was also apparent that the top used emojis reflected the universal emotions, regarding the usage of hand gestures, Egyptian dialect came in the first place and Emirati dialect in the second place. Prosodic features such as the tone and loudness of the voice are expressed by the mean of character repetition, Punctuation usage across the Arabic dialects was limited, and Lebanese seemed to use them the most, Arabs tend to replace punctuation marks with emojis, finally, Arabs used vocal expressions like Interjections to communicate their affective state.

Study on the Formation and Construction of the Cultural Empathy in the Cross- cultural Communication

The development of globalization has promoted different regions to be closely linked and the boundaries between different cultural cycles to be gradually broken,so that the communication and integration between different cultures emerge. In cross-cultural communication,cultural empathy is not only a problem and necessarily implemented strategy,but also plays an important role,so people must improve their own cultural sensitivity,set up the awareness in cultural empathy on the basis of recognizing cultural diversity and equality,break the thinking inertia in the local culture and increase the consciousness in cognizing cultural empathy,put aside the idea of cultural centralism and strengthen the cultural inclusivity,and widely understand the basic cultures of other countries and reduce cultural empathy.

Study of Cultural Negative Transfer in Cross-cultural Communication

Different nations in the world have their own cultures, and these cultures are characterized by both universality and particularity. The former provides a foundation and guarantee for intercultural communication, while the latter often leads to negative cultural transfer in communication if the speakers are unconscious of cultural differences. This paper makes a general analysis of the negative transfer of surface-structure culture in language forms and that of deep-structure culture in values, thought patterns, religious beliefs and ethics. It holds that failure in intercultural communication will occur if inadequate attention is paid to cultural differences in the process of language and culture learning.

A Comparative Studyof Chinese and Western Philosophical Thoughts in Cross Cultural Communication

Philosophy has a very important role in the development of society.To some extent,the development of philosophy determines the degree of social and economic development.Based on the similarities and differences between Chinese and western philosophies,this paper explores explore effective measures of cultural exchanges between China and Western countries.

A Study of Pragmatic Failure in Cross-cultural Communication

Nowadays cross-cultural communication plays a more and more important role.It is obvious that English teachers' respon? sibility is to cultivate the students' communicative ability in English teaching. But in communicationmany students have various kinds of problems of pragmatic failure. This article will focus on the study of pragmatic failure in term of verbal communication fail? ure, which mainly includes two kinds of pragmatic failures;one is pragmalinguistic failure and the other is sociopragmatic failure.

A Study of Pragmatic Failures in Cross-Cultural Communication

This paper focuses on pragmatic failures in cross-cultural communication and explores the difficult meanings in cross-cultural pragmatics. Through exploring the differences in address, greeting, politeness and other cross-cultural aspects, the author explains the cross-cultural basis for pragmatics. The author first explains certain concepts, including culture, pragmatics, pragmatic failures and cross-cultural communication, and then illustrates some pragmatic failures in cross-cultural communication and discusses the causes of these failures. Finally, she gives some suggestions on improving competence in cross-cultural communication. This thesis is intended to remind English learners of the importance of learning cultures of English-speaking countries and facilitate cross-cultural communication.

Study on the Cross-Cultural Identification of A Community of Shared Future for Mankind

As a kind of“global view”beyond the country and ideology,the concept of a community of shared future for mankind is the core of Xi Jinping’s diplomatic thoughts,and also a Chinese strategy for the future of mankind,which is proposed by China to adapt to the interrelation of human societies with a view of world peace and development.The cross-cultural awareness contained in such concept refers actually to the promotion and abandonment of different cultures in the world.Cross-cultural identification means that the national culture constantly absorbs the positive factors of foreign cultures while discards its negative factors,so as to promote the benign combination of the both and realize the localization of the latter.In the longer term,the most direct mission of the proposal of such concept is to answer the goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,and to promote the common revitalization of all countries and resurgence of civilizations.This concept interprets the relationship between China and the world and also integrates the Chinese dream with the world dream.Therefore,the study on cross-cultural identification of all countries should expand international understanding and broad consensus,on the basis of the global perspective of the community of shared future for mankind,and under the principle of“symbiosis,negotiation,collaborative construction,sharing and a win-win situation”.

The Study of Knowledge-sharing Practices of Chinese Universities from the Perspective of Cross-Cultural Communication

With the increasing globalization and international communication,numerous overseas students and visiting scholars study and exchange knowledge in Chinese universities.They confront the challenge of how to effectively deal with the knowledge sharing in a cross- cultural setting. The purpose of the study is to examine knowledge sharing in Chinese universities in the cross-communication setting. First,the concepts of cross-cultural communication and knowledge sharing are briefly introduced. The paper explores the internal and external factors affecting knowledge sharing in Chinese universities. The findings show the strategies of knowledge sharing that should be employed,including promoting mutual trust,establishing knowledge sharing culture,the incentive and rewards system and the ShareNet platform.

The “Colour Family Drawing Test”: Assessing Children’s Perception of Family Relationships. Studies on Mental Health and Cross-Cultural Comparisons

We apply the Colour Family Drawing Test, as a development of the traditional black and white test, for cross-cultural comparison. The participants, aged 7 - 10 years, both genders, were examined individually. Each subject sat at a single table with a white rectangular card of standard size, 24 well-sharpened colour pencils, a black pencil, an eraser and other appropriate tools. S/he received this verbal instruction: “Draw your family”. The procedure was firstly applied to 120 participants attending primary schools of Rome (Biasi, Bonaiuto and Levin, 2014). The families were evaluated through a semi-structural interview conducted with the children’s teachers and divided into: Harmonious versus Very Conflictual Families. The drawings made by children of Harmonious Families consistently used “Reassuring and Playful Colours” (Pink, Orange, Sky Blue, Light Green, Light Yellow, other pastel colours);and were larger, tidier and more proportioned to respect the opposite group. Children belonging to Conflictual Families used mostly “Alarming and Serious Colours” (Grey, Black, Dark Bleu, Violet, Olive Green) and their drawings were less extended, more often disordered and had typical deformations such as figures too thin. A second investigation examined 120 participants belonging to Asian immigrant families residing in Italy. A third investigation examined 120 participants belonging to Russian families of Moscow. Both last two investigations obtained very similar results on the use of colours, and gave a confirmation of the relevance of the Colour Family Drawing Test.

A Study of Cross-cultural Pragmatic Failures in Tourism Interpretation

In the tourism interpretation,guide interpreter incompetent in cross-cultural pragmatic awareness and ability happensto make various cross-cultural pragmatic failures,which would result in misunderstandings or even failures in communication.Thephenomenon of cross-cultural pragmatic failures in the tourism interpretation from two subdivisions:pragmalinguistic failure andsociopragmatic failure would be discussed from the interdisciplinary perspective,aiming to the promotion of the quality of tourisminterpretation and the advancement of the cross-cultural communication between China and the west.

Comparative Study on Euphemism and Body Language in Cross-cultural Communication

With the development of the world,cross-cultural communication becomes more and more general.To pay attention to the cross-cultural study and to familiarize with the errors in our daily cross-cultural communication are two important ways to foster and improve the ability of cross-cultural communication.They are also two important parts to make cross-cultural communication activities smoothly.Body language is a way of nonverbal communication commonly used in human contact,the main function of it is to make our language colorful and expressive.If you can use body language suitably,then you can get better effect.Otherwise you will fall into communication failures.The euphemism is tied to ethnic psychology,religion,values,customs and other factors.It is good to deepen our knowledge of Sino-Western language and culture by getting more information about euphemism.And to learn more about euphemism can help you reduce barriers in cross-cultural communication.

Cross-cultural Communication via Media——A Case Study of Screen Translation

Cross-cultural communication has become a heated topic throughout the world during all these years,screen translation is a form of cross-cultural communication.By screen translation,the cultural phenomenon of the other countries will vividly be expressed in front of the audiences.This essay will discuss the cross-cultural communication via media,and screen translation will be a case study to illustrate how the media performed in cross-cultural communication.What’s more,some more issues are discussed concerning the characteristics of the language in screen translation,the principles regarding the screen translation and the methods in dubbing.Additionally,the function of the cross-cultural communication via media is listed out with a typical example to illustrate the importance of the cross-cultural phenomenon in screen translation.

A Contrastive Study of English and Chinese Taboos in Cross-cultural Communication

A commonly cultural phenomenon in the human history is taboo, which is a strong social prohibition related to any area of human society. Different social and cultural backgrounds will produce different taboos. Lacking the knowledge of social customs may cause conflicts in crosscultural communication. So it is necessary to know more about taboos. This paper analyzes the the cultural similarities and difference between Chinese and English taboos in a contrastive way in cross-cultural communication and stresses the importance of?understanding and mastering taboos, so that they can reduce the inter-communicative barriers and mistakes and improve their communicative ability.