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Unit 3 Daily Verbal Communication emily008@126 ;

Unit 3 Daily Verbal Communication emily008@126.com ;. Case 1. What cause the problem between the American and the Filipino?. Differences. 1. Knowing the exact number of the guests (Important? Not important? Thinking about the Chinese wedding ceremony banquet.)

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Unit 3 Daily Verbal Communication emily008@126 ;

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  1. Unit 3 Daily Verbal Communication emily008@126.com;

  2. Case 1 What cause the problem between the American and the Filipino?

  3. Differences 1. Knowing the exact number of the guests (Important? Not important? Thinking about the Chinese wedding ceremony banquet.) 2. If I don’t want to go, should I say no directly? What does it mean by saying ‘I’ll try my best to go’? 3. Is First Communion important? How important a celebration for children is in a culture?

  4. Filipinos are driven by self-respect (amor-propio), shame (hiya), and family. Because confrontation involves embarrassing assaults to self-respect (and makes enemies of entire families), it is avoided at all cost. Filipinos put on a pleasant face even when they are troubled and may say yes when they really mean no. Maintaining good relations within a group is more important than individual well-being. Case 2

  5. When to express different opinion? When not to express different opinion in Chinese culture ?

  6. Case 3 1.Have you had an experience like this: you go out with your friend. On the way, your friend encounters one of his /her friend who you don’t know. They two talk without introducing you. 2. Talking in dialect sometimes can show special relationship but inappropriate when…

  7. Case 4 No seeing out when guest leaves No standing-up when leaders come in No help for the old Are the Canadians rude? Low-power distance

  8. Compliments and Compliment Responses Phenomena: 1.Americans make more compliments than Chinese. 2. Americans accept compliments while Chinese refuse the compliments with an aim of fishing for compliments.

  9. Social functions To Americans To reinforce solidarity To make people feel comfortable To Chinese To get benefit from the person complimented. With this aim, Chinese compliments are sometimes exaggerative

  10. English on appearance on objects on performance Chinese on appearance on social status on property on income on children on marriage Contents of Compliments

  11. Semantic and syntactic difference • Chinese uses more adverbs in compliments than English. Why? • Chinese starts compliments with ‘you’ while English starts compliments with ‘I’.

  12. Compliment Responses Classification Ye (1995) acceptance acceptance with amendment non-acceptance Holmes (1995) Accept Deflect Reject

  13. Dynamic Culture (Chen Rong’s study) Table: Chinese CR strategies, with findings of the current study.

  14. Thank you for your attention!

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