Differences in Communication Between Chinese and American Cultures
Abstract
With the development of globalization and cultural diversity, cross-cultural communication has become popular around the world. Though many scholars have formulated various principles for people to observe, to some extent people violate them in real settings. Therefore, there may exist misunderstandings and conflicts between people communication from different cultural backgrounds, which can destroy people’s friendship and cooperation. This paper listed four aspects: praise and response, request and response, refusal and response and task reception, which violated the cooperative principle between Chinese and American cultures, compared them and explored reasons mainly from Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck’s value-oriented model, theories of dimensions of cultural variability and high-context and low-context cultures. In cross-cultural communication, individuals tend to violate some maxims based on their social forms which are not observed by others. For appropriate communication, people should respect and learn more other cultures and social norms instead of languages only.
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