Acting Chinese
An Intermediate-Advanced Course in Discourse and Behavioral Culture 行为汉语
- 290 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Acting Chinese
An Intermediate-Advanced Course in Discourse and Behavioral Culture 行为汉语
About This Book
Acting Chinese is a year-long course that, together with the companion website, integrates language learning with the acquisition of cultural knowledge, and treats culture as an integral part of human behavior and communication.
Using modern day examples of Chinese discourse and behavioral culture, it trains students to perform in culturally appropriate fashion, whilst developing a systematic awareness and knowledge about Chinese philosophy, values and belief systems that will prepare them for further advanced study of Chinese language and culture. Each lesson contains simulated real-life communication scenarios that aim to provide a concrete opportunity to see how native speakers generally communicate or behave in social situations.
An essential guide for intermediate to advanced level second language learners, Acting Chinese provides a unique and modern approach to the acquisition of both cultural knowledge and language proficiency.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Teacher’s guide 教材使用指南
- List of abbreviations and symbols
- List of characters in communication scenarios
- Unit One Cultural perspective: group mentality 群体意识
- Unit Two Cultural perspective: the concept of li 礼的观念
- Unit Three Cultural perspective: harmony orientation 贵和思想
- Unit Four Cultural perspective: face psychology 面子心理
- Unit Five Cultural perspective: rules of renqing 人情法则
- Appendix: reflection worksheet for cultural exploration 文化探索
- Traditional Chinese character texts 課文繁體字版
- Indexes