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Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Need and Significance of the Study
1.2 Outline of the Thesis
Chapter Two A literature Review
2.1 Understanding Communication
2.1.1 Defining Communication
2.1.2 Understanding Context
2.1.3 High-context and Low-context Communication
2.2 The Relationship between Communication and Culture
2.2.1 Understanding Communication Styles in Different Cultures
2.2.2 Understanding High-context and Low-context Cultures
Chapter Three The Divergences in Communication Styles between merican Low-context Culture and Chinese High-context Culture
3.1 Different Understandings of Communication
3.1.1 The American Understanding of Communication
3.1.2 The Chinese Understanding of Communication
3.2 The Divergences in Communication Styles in the Use of Context
3.2.1 Directness vs. Indirectness
3.2.2 Explicitness vs. Implicitness
3.2.3 Individual Initiative vs. Collective Initiative
3.2.4 Informality vs. Formality
3.3 The Influencing Factors on the Development of the Two Contextual Cultures
3.3.1 The Social and Historical Factors
3.3.2 The Religious and Philosophical Factors
3.3 The Influence of Internal Cognitive Processes
Chapter Four Case Studies on Miscommunication in the Use of Context in Sino-U.S. Intercultural Communieation
4.1 In Terms of Direcmess, Explicitness, Indirectness and Implicitness
4.1.1 In Help-offering Situations
4.1.2 In Dealing with Disagreements
4.1.3 In Requesting Situations
4.1.4 In Silent Situations
4.2 In Terms of Collective Initiative and Individual Initiative
4.3 In Terms of Informality and Formality
Chapter Five The Enlightenment on the Intercultural Communication Teaching in China
5.1 The Significance of the Awareness of the Divergences between Chinese High-context Culture and American Low-context Culture
5.1.1 Intercultural Communication Competence (ICC)
5.1.2 What Should Be Included in Instruction for the Improvement of ICC
5.1.3 The Significance of Understanding Contextual Differences in the Improvement of ICC
5.1.4 The Current Condition of English Major Students' Awareness of the Differences between High-context and Low-context Cultures
5.2 Use of Videos as a Teaching Technique to Raise Students' Awareness of the Contextual Divergences
5.2.1 Advantages of Using Videos as a Technique to Raise Students' Awareness of the Contextual Divergences
5.2.2 General Principles of Using Videos as a Cultural Teaching Technique
5.2.3 Samples of Using Videos as a Technique to Raise Students' Awareness of the Contextual Divergences
Chapter Six Conclusion
6.1 The Conclusion of the Study
6.2 Limitations
Bibliography
Appendix
Published Papers
Acknowledgements
