Comparison of Chinese and Westerners' Communication Pattern
- DOI
- 10.2991/icelaic-14.2014.168How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Chinese and Westerners, communication patterns, culture
- Abstract
As a result of Chinese and Western culture’s difference Chinese and Westerners’ communication has easily formed into the awkward and even embarrassed conditions. Along with the quick change of the whole world’s process of integration, the breadth and the depth of Chinese and Westerners’ communication are developing and deepening unceasingly, therefore it is necessary for us to carry on the contrastive analysis of Chinese and Westerners’ communication patterns in order to promote smoothly the Chinese and Westerners’ communication. This article has made the contrastive analysis of series of quite remarkable differences of Chinese and Westerners’ communication process, which involve the main communicating modes: language; the different meaning expressed by expression and posture; regarding acceptance of praises, thanks, expression of separation; dines, sending gift and so on. Through these analyses, this article promulgates the importance of culture in the communication, believes we should understand different cultures of different countries and then the bilateral communication will be more relaxing and happy. In the Chinese and Westerners’ communication, it is necessary to know the difference and learn to adapt the difference gradually. Under the present situation, it is Chinese and Westerners’ communication law of development from the conflict to the fusion.
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- © 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Lijun Yang PY - 2014/05 DA - 2014/05 TI - Comparison of Chinese and Westerners' Communication Pattern BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Intercultural Communication PB - Atlantis Press SP - 667 EP - 670 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icelaic-14.2014.168 DO - 10.2991/icelaic-14.2014.168 ID - Yang2014/05 ER -