Comparison of Chinese and Westerners’ Communication Pattern

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Comparison of Chinese and Westerners’

Communication Pattern

Lijun Yang

School of Business and Trade

Huanghe Science and Technology College

Zhengzhou, China

e-mail: 379630960@qq.com

Abstract—As a result of Chinese and Western culture’s

difference Chinese and Westerners’ communication has easily

formed into the awkward and even embarrassed conditions.

Along with the quick change of the whole world’s process of

integration, the breadth and the depth of Chinese and

Westerners’ communication are developing and deepening

unceasingly, therefore it is necessary for us to carry on the

contrastive analysis of Chinese and Westerners’ communication

patterns in order to promote smoothly the Chinese and

Westerners’ communication. This article has made the

contrastive analysis of series of quite remarkable differences of

Chinese and Westerners’ communication process, which involve

the main communicating modes: language; the different meaning

expressed by expression and posture; regarding acceptance of

praises, thanks, expression of separation; dines, sending gift and

so on. Through these analyses, this article promulgates the

importance of culture in the communication, believes we should

understand different cultures of different countries and then the

bilateral communication will be more relaxing and happy. In the

Chinese and Westerners’ communication, it is necessary to know

the difference and learn to adapt the difference gradually. Under

that the culture should meet the primary need, including the

communication need without doubt. The communication is

inevitable in the human society, the human is impossible to be

isolated from other people completely in the world; therefore

the suitable communication patterns facilitate all things to be

simply. The communication may be easier when the both

parties understand the background and culture of opposite party

well. This kind of communication being familiar with bilateral

cultures will make the life become very easy and happy, and

thus cause the entire world to become no longer mystical and

strange. Especially at present the communication between

different countries is frequent day by day. Therefore, it is more

and more important for us to understand the communication

patterns under the background of Chinese and Western culture.

II. COMPARISON OF CHINESE AND WESTERNERS’ GREETINGS

The greetings are the beginning of communication, the

good greetings may make a good impression effectively on the

opposite party, and it is conducive to the later activity of

International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Intercultural Communication (ICELAIC 2014)