西南大学培训与继续教育学院课程考试试题卷
学期：2020年春季
课程名称【编号】：跨文化交际【0859】 A卷
：大作业 ：100 分
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I． Analyze the following cases，and then answer the given questions. (50%)
1. Case 1
Can we talk about us?
Anna asks her fiancé, Ben, “Can we talk about us?” Immediately Ben tenses up, sensing trouble. He presents himself for an unpleasant conversation and reluctantly agrees. Anna then thanks Ben for being so supportive during the last few months when she was under enormous pressure at her job. She tells him she feels closer than ever to him. Then she invites Ben to tell her what makes him feel loved and closer to her. Although Ben is relieved to them there is no crisis, he’s also baffled. “If there isn’t a problem, why do women need to talk about the relationship? If it’s working, let it be.”
Question
Could you explain why Ben was reluctant to have a talk with his fiancée
2. Case 2
Mistakes
Grace is a university student in China, and she has an English conversation class with a Western teacher named Mr. Schmidt. In the class Grace has lots of chances to practice her speaking because Mr. Schmidt often has the students discuss in pairs or small groups. Grace likes all the speaking practice, but she also worries because her friends’ English isn’t any better than hers and they cannot correct English mistakes she makes. So Grace also likes to talk directly with Mr. Schmidt when she has the chance.6 H7 K1 W& y& m$ U
However, Grace has noticed that even when Mr. Schmidt talks with her in class, he almost never corrects mistakes in her English. This worries her because she is afraid that if he doesn’t correct her mistakes now, the mistakes will become bad habits that are hard to break later. So several times after class she has politely asked Mr. Schmidt to be especially careful about correcting errors she makes in English. He has always assured her that he will.
Today, Grace has just made a speech in class, and hopes that Mr. Schmidt will point out some of her errors. However, after her speech, he only comments about the content of what she said. To her surprise, and frustration, he still says nothing about her grammar.
Questions:
1) Why do you think Mr. Schmidt never corrects Grace’s English mistakes?
2) If you were Grace, what would be your response to Mr. Schmidt’s “negligence”?
II. Answer the following questions: (50%)
1. “Stereotype” is said to be one of the potential barriers of intercultural communication. What is “stereotype”? Why we take stereotypes as a barrier of intercultural communication?
2. As we know, a word in one language does not necessarily have a counterpart in the other language; words or terms in both languages appear to refer to the same object or concept only on the surface, but actually refer to quite different things. Explain the cultural differences of the following pairs of words: 龙vs. dragon, 知识分子 vs. intellectuals,书 vs. book, 狗vs. dog.
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