【正文】 y a party in an American’s house in winter, when they get into the house, they do not put off their coat, then, the host will ask “Are you feeling very cold?”, the Chinese people often say “Yes, rather.”. they do not know, in western countries, when the guests get into the host’s house, they should take off their coat to show their politeness. But when many Chinese students studying abroad enter into the western people’s house, the host says “Let me take your coat.” or “Shall I take your coat?”, the students always answer “No, no.” they do not know this custom in western countries. So, by studying the intercultural munication, people will know different nationality’s cultural background which can help people reduce the obstacles to the greatest possible extent in intercultural munication. B. Studying intercultural munication can reduce the municative conflicts Body 9 Communication conflicts are the promotion of the munication obstacles. The slight municative obstacles can lead to the failure in changing information and ideas, while the serious municative obstacles may result in serious mistakes or munication conflicts. It is just like two persons who can not municate with each other under the same situation. In that case, one person’s “good words to persuade” is understood mistakenly to “bad words to hurt”, the two persons may quarrel with each other, or even fight with each other. For instance, an American business man es to china to do business, he is eager to discuss the business as soon as he gets to the destination. But Chinese manager will not do this immediately. He asks the American businessman to inspect for several days and his secretary to lead the American business man to visit the local scenic spots and historical sites. Then, he will invite the American business man to have meals again and again. All those the Chinese manager does is for the business, but the American business man will doubt if the manager really wants to do this business. And at last, he goes back to America and the business fails. American people have clear idea about work and entertainment. When they are in the situation of “worka holic”, working is the foremost thing. Because Chinese manager lacks the knowledge of intercultural munication, the business fails. So, one munication conflict can cause a big amount of economic loss. Because of culture difference and the lacking of intercultural munication knowledge, Chinese people’s modesty may be misunderstood as hypocrisy by western people。 some businessmen from foreign countries e to China to do business but failed and left with plaint。 Introduction 1 INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND THE CONFLICTS BETWEEN CHINESE CULTURE AND WESTERN CULTURE Ⅰ .INTRODUCTION After the Second World War, people find that the earth bees smaller and smaller: politicians from each country are busy in munication on the intercultural stage。 Contents Contents 摘 要 ...................................................................................................................... I Abstract ................................................................................................................ II Ⅰ .INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... … 1 Ⅱ . T H E F R E Q U E N T C O N F L I C T S A P P E A R I N G I N INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN CHINESE CULTURE AND WESTERN CULTURE ................................................ 2 A. The Conflicts on Privacy ................................................................................. 2 B. The Conflicts on the Sense of Time ................................................................. 2 C. The Conflicts on Traditional Cultures ........................................................... 3 D. The Conflicts on Table Custom ....................................................................... 3 Ⅲ .THE REASONS LEADING TO THE CULTURAL CONFLICT ....................................................................................................................................... 3 A. The Difference in the Mode of Thinking ........................................................ 4 B. The Difference in Behavior .............................................................................. 4 C. The Difference in the Concept of Value ......................................................... 5 D. The Difference in Language Transference ..................................................... 5 Ⅳ .HOW TO IMPROVE THE ABILITY OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND AVOID THE CULTURE CONFLICTS IN ENGLISH TEACHING ............................................................................. 6 A. Transforming the Teaching Concept of the Teachers ................................... 6 B. Improving the Present Available Teaching Methods ..................................... 6 Emphasis on the Training of Nonlanguage Communicative ability7 D. Asking the Students to Read More Materials about Western Cultures ...... 7 Ⅴ .THE SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDYING INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION .......................................................................................... 8 Contents A. Studying Intercultural Communication Can Reduce the Communicative Obstacles ................................................................................................................ 8 B. Studying Intercultural Communication Can Reduce the Communicative Conflicts ................................................................................................................. 8