【正文】 Nowadays, the world is characterized by a fast growing number of contacts resulting in munication among people with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. This crosscultural munication covers many fields from education, business, medicalcare, politics, tourism, culture, diplomacy, media and entertainment. Intercultural munication concerns the differences between cultures, and these differences can lead to embarrassment in munication. At the worst, such mistakes may confuse or even offend the people we wish to municate with. The most basic and the most important one is thought patterns. This thesis tends to pare different thought patterns and their impacts upon the intercultural munication between Chinese and Americans. A good understanding of thinking pattern and crosscultural munication will help us have a better awareness toward crosscultural barriers and troubles. In other words, the thesis aims to give some ideas for people who are preparing for, intercultural munication and who are experiencing intercultural munication. Key words: thought patterns。對思維模式差異和跨文化交流很好 的了解即是對跨文化文化交流的障礙和困難的一種意識，換而言之，本 論文就是給那些準備進行跨文化交流和正在進行跨文化交流中得人一些建議，已達到更佳的交流效果。 10 Imaginative Thinking 14 Ambiguity Perplexity, Anxiety and Conflicts Caused in Intercultural Communication14 Influences on Business Setting vision of a global village is no longer an abstract idea in our mind but an absolute fact in our life. Due to the technological, social and political changes, the world now has bee a smaller pla. Mass media brings news overseas in home less than a minute。Fred Plog (1990, cited in Samovar, Porteramp。 such thinking patterns explain the world from a dualistic angle. The Americans believe the power of man. Their relationship with nature is “master slave relationship with man the master of nature” (Hu, 1988:07). American culture admires independence and they believe that early birds catch the worms. Their thinking 湖南涉外經(jīng)濟學院本科生畢業(yè)論文（設(shè)計） 8 patterns base on individualism whereas the Chinese base their thinking patterns on groups. Therefore, Americans tend to depose plex things and study them one by one, with analytical logic their preference. Aristotle believes that analysis is the basic form of dialectical thinking. He confirms that analytics is the instrument of all subjects. Compared to the American thinking patterns, the Chinese pays more attention to connotation and stress synthesis. Because Chinese and American thinking patterns focus on quite different aspects, there must be many differences in people39。s thinking style is not close to direct perception of impermanent forms. They stress action and performance. They believe their reasonable and effective thinking pattern. The American39。s thinking the subjective experience and the objective facts are always substituted for each other. Chinese unity leads to the seeking of the monality。 while Americans prefer the analytic stuff and denotation. Synthetic Thinking Synthetic thinking, including all the factors, suggests thinking from the perspective of the whole. For the cognition of the objective (an object or, maybe an event or things like that)， all the separate parts concerned are bined together. On the contrary, analytic thinking refers to thinking in a way of separating the whole into constituents or parts to acquire its properties or relations between the individual parts. As a matter of fact, synthetic thinking and analytic thinking are the unity of opposites. They oppose each other, also plement each other. Generally speaking, Chinese thinking is predominantly synthetic in which holism and intuition take priority。Fred Plog and Samovar, Porteramp。 21 Acknowledgement 17 Improving Intercultural Communication in Educational Setting 10 Past Orientation Vs Future Orientation II Introduction 在諸多的差異中，最基礎(chǔ)的，最重要的就是思維模式的差異。 culture。 關(guān)鍵詞 ： 思維模式；文化；跨文化交際 III Contents ABSTRACT 3 Thought Pattern 7 2. l Synthetic Vs Analytic 7 Analytical Thinking 8 Imaginative and Abstractive education, business, and immigration all help to reduce the stance between people of different cultures. Transportation is being much quicker and more convenient, and World Wide Web makes people all over the world get access to new information and news uptodate. Even in politics, countries that once were enemies are now having a better relationship. All the changes have contributed to the fact that people have to municate with those from other culture and societies. Theoretically, this kind of munication is called intercultural munication. Intercultural munication is so omnipresent that we especially need to focus on it. Besides, only through petently interacting with those who are different than ourselves, can we ensure the survival of the global village. Successful intercultural munication sounds ideal, but it actually demands a lot of knowledge of other people and their cultures and background. Language barrier is obviously one part of unsuccessful intercultural munication, but the most important one is cultural barrier, which is not simply learned as a kind of language. Jixianlin (1998:6) points out that the basic difference between Chinese and western culture lies in the thought pattern. Therefore, this thesis aims to discuss the differences of thought pattern between Chinese and Americans, explores its impacts upon intercultural munication, and finally, suggests some methods to deal with the possible negative influences caused by the differences