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A Comparison between Chinese and Western Interpersonal Communication Patterns: An Intercultural Perspective

Yi Tang

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As one of the indispensable components and decisive factors in intercultural communication, interpersonal communication bares distinctive cultural features in terms of communicative orientations and patterns, and it has been studied a lot in discourse and socio-linguistics as well as in social psychology. From an intercultural communication perspective, this paper intends to make a comparison between Chinese and Western interpersonal communication, especially in American English, with the focus on individual and group relations, and emotional exchange.

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As one of the indispensable components and decisive factors in intercultural communication, interpersonal communication bares distinctive cultural features in terms of communicative orientations and patterns, and it has been studied a lot in discourse and socio-linguistics as well as in social psychology. From an intercultural communication perspective, this paper intends to make a comparison between Chinese and Western interpersonal communication, especially in American English, with the focus on individual and group relations, and emotional exchange.

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As one of the indispensable components and decisive factors in intercultural communication, interpersonal communication bares distinctive cultural features in terms of communicative orientations and patterns, and it has been studied a lot in discourse and socio-linguistics as well as in social psychology. From an intercultural communication perspective, this paper intends to make a comparison between Chinese and Western interpersonal communication, especially in American English, with the focus on individual and group relations, and emotional exchange.

Key concepts: Intercultural communication, Interpersonal communication, Perspective (graphical), Psychology, Social psychology, Care perspective, Interpersonal relationship, Focus (optics)

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