本書共分為10個單元，涉及全球化時代的交際問題、文化與交際、各類文化差異、語言與文化、跨文化言語交際、跨文化非言語交際、時間與空間使用上的文化、跨文化感知、跨文化適應、跨文化能力等，包括了跨文化交際的各個方面，對其中一些重要問題都有相對深入的介紹與探討。
Unit 1 Communication Across Culture
Warm Up
Reading I Intercultural Communication：An Introduction
Discovering Problems：Sim Is Beautifu
Group Work
Debate
Reading II The Challenge of Globalization
Writing
Identifying Difference：How We Addres Each Other
Survey
Intercultural Insigfht
Translation
Case Study：Cases 1
Further Reading I Stumbling Blocks in Intercultural Communication
Further Reading II Communication in the Global Village
Unit 2 Culture and Communication
Warm Up
Reading I What Is Culture
Fill-in Task
Sharing Knowledge：More About Culture
Writing
Reading II Elements of Communication
Discovering Problems：Misleading Commercial Signs
Matching Task
Identifying Diference：Communicating or Communicating Efectivel
Group Worlk
Translation
Case Study：Cases 5
Further Reading I Understanding Culture
Further Reading II Essentials of Human Communication
Unit 3 Cultural Diversity
Warm Up
Reading I Different Lands，Different Friendships
Cuftural Information：American Friendship
Survey
Identifying Difference：Family Structure
Reading II Comparing and Contrasting Cultures
Interview
Group Work
Sharing Knowledge：Confucian Cultural Patterns
Writing
Intercultural Insight
Translation
Case Study：Cases 9-12
Further Reading I Cultural Dimensions
Further Reading II High-Context and Low-Context Cultures
Unit 4 Language and Culture
Warm Up
Reading I How Is Language Related to Culture
Fill-in Task
Group Worlk
Identifying Difference：Kinship Terms and More
Reading II Language-and-Culture，Two Sides of the Same Coin
Sharing Knowledge：How to Say "Yes"and "No
Survey
Witing
Discovering Problems：Translating Acros Lanquages
Translation
Case Studiy：Cases 13-16
Further Reading I The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Further Reading II Language，Thought，and Culture
Unit 5 Culture and Verbal Communication
Warm Up
Readingl Understanding the Culture of Conversation
Fill-in Task
Identifying Difference：Compliment Response
Interview
Reading II The Way People Speak
Group Work
Culfura Information：Making Telephone Calls
Interculturaf Insight
Translation
Case Study：Cases 17-20
Further Reading I Cross-Cultural Verbal Communication Styles
Further Reading IⅡ Preferences in the Organization of Verbal Codes
Unit 6 Culture and Nonverbal Communication
Warm Up
Reading I An Overview of Nonverbal Communication
Matching Task
Observation Task
Sharing Knowledge：Factors that Influence Touch
Reading IⅡ Gender and Nonverbal Communication
Whiting
Group Work
Identifying Difference：Posture and Sitting Habits
Culftural Information：How the Japanese Communicate Nonverbaly
Translation
Case Study：Cases 21-24
Further Reading I Functions of Nonverbal Communication
Further Reading II Sounds and Silence
Unit 7 Time and Space Across Cultures
Warm Up
Reading I The Heartbeat of Culture
Identifying Difference：What's the Rush
Group Work
Debate
Intercultural Insight
Reading II The Language of Space
Whiting
Culfturaf Information：Home in Various Culfures
Sharing Knowledge：Culures Buil Into the Landscape
Translation
Case Study：Cases 25-28
Further Reading I Cultural Conceptions of Time
Further Reading II German Use of Space
Unit 8 Cross-Cultural Perception
Warm Up
Reading I French Leave and Dutch Courage
Fill-in Taslk
Cuftural Information：Who Is Gaijin
Sunvey
Reading IIEthnocentrism and Ethnorelativism
Discovering Problems：The Image of Others
Group Work
Whiting
Sharing Knowledge：Culture and Perception
Translation
Case Study：Cases 29-32
Further Reading I Behaviors That Separate Us
Further Reading I Stereotype and Prejudice
Unit 9 Intercultural Adaptation
Warm Up
Reading I Adapting to a New Culture
Interview
Sharing Knowledge：Tiwo Views of Culture Shock
Discovering Problems：Chinese Students Abroad
Reading IⅡ Overcoming Ethnocentrism in Communication
Group Worlk
Test Yourself
dentifying Diference：Little things Where They Differ
Debate
Translation
Case Studiy：Cases 33-36
Further Reading I Sojourner Adaptation
Further Reading I Developing Mindfulnes
Unit 10 Acquiring Intercultural Competence
Warm Up
Reading I A Culture Learning Story
Whiting
Discovering Problems：First-and Second- Generation Immigrants
Sharing Knouledge：Metaphors of U．S．Cuftural Diversity
Reading Ⅱ Improving Intercultural Communication
Group Work
Interculfuraf Insight
Matching Task
Identifying Difference：Description，Interpretation，and Evaluation
Translation
Case Study：Cases 37-40
Further Reading I The Future of Intercultural Communication
Further Reading II Intercultural Communication：A Matter of Our Survival
Acknowledgements
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