A comparison between Chinese and Western interpersonal communication patterns： An intercultural perspective  

作　　者：TANG Yi 

机构地区：[1]College English Teaching Department, Guiyang University, Guiyang 550003, China

出　　处：《US-China Foreign Language》2010年第9期14-19,57,共7页美中外语（英文版）

摘　　要：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.

关 键 词：intercultural communication interpersonal communication individual and group relations emotional exchange 

分 类 号：C912.6[经济管理] G127[社会学]