An analysis of American – Chinese movie ‘Saving face” by using Face Negotiation Theory Table of contents Face Negotiation Theory 2 An application of face-negotiation theory in the movie “Saving face” (2004) 3 Advantages and disadvantages of face theory 6 Conclusion 7 References 8 The term “face-negotiation theory” was first introduced by Stella Ting-Toomey‚ a Professor of Human Communication Studies at California State University‚ in 1988 based on amazing works of Goffman in 1955
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one’s brain‚ but from the existence of societies.Ideology is generally referred to as a dominant way in which news people validate and give meaning to their work. The article compares the various reports of the July 2009 Urumqi riots from western and Chinese medium. With the comparison and analysis of these cases‚ the perspective reported to the incident was quite different between Chinese and Western medium. Some reasons will be stated from the perspective of ideology. Keywords：ideology western media
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rapid development internet population‚ More and more people have brought or will buy some products on the internet for a cheaper price and comfortable services. This is the reason of why I consider this topic in my thesis. EBay‚ a world leading company on the E-commerce market. They have really strong power of competition in the E-commerce market in the world even there have a lot of competitors like Amazon‚ Alibaba. In 2002 they entered Chinese E-commerce market and they have been acquiring one
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A look at the use of articles with reference to a group of adult Chinese students at the intermediate level Adrian Jordan University of Leicester‚ England Contents Section 1. Introduction. Section 2 The learning challenges that students face when using articles. Section 3 A grammatical look at the English article system and how the students’ L1 interferes with their learning process. Section 4 Conclusion.
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CULTURAL ANALYSIS REPORT THE CHINESE CULTURE Alfred Chung 100 682 953 International Communication COMM 2201 Annika Hannan Messages are transcended without much explanation or explicit descriptions because it is assumed that the receiver will understand. This is Edward T. Hall’s High Context theory. This is the Chinese culture. I am an immigrant from Hong Kong. Although I relocated to Toronto before I came to understand most of my teachings‚ I did not forget them. As one of the oldest civilizations
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The Bantu People The Bantu people are known as the 60 million African Americans who speak the Bantu language throughout Africa. Bantu-speaking people can be found in Rwanda‚ Angola‚ Burundi‚ Zimbabwe‚ and South Africa‚ among other nations in the southern part of Africa. Many believe that Bantu tribes probably began migrating from Northern Africa around 3‚000 BCE. They most likely brought an assortment of skills with them such as the ability to farm‚ and work metals. Migration continued until around
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Successful People To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Stand and Deliver by Ramon Menendez and Thomas Musca are two similar stories where the main characters are both very determined. They both want to make a difference and are both very confident men. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Atticus Finch‚ the main character‚ is a white older man that is a lawyer. During the book‚ he has to defend a black man who was charged with raping a white woman. During that time period‚ black people were seen by the
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found in the northern Japan on the island of Hokkaido. Ainu people are distinct from the people of Japan .The Ainu are smaller in height then the people of Japan. Men wear large beards and their moustaches are a sign of beauty and their noses are straight and long. One of the strangest thing in their culture is the sacrifice of a bear they treat bears as their own children and when they are big enough they sacrifice the bear .Then Ainu people think that bear is a strong spirit so a women is made in
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and the country has few natural resources. But the discovery of petroleum in 1959 injected huge sums of money into Libya’s economy. The government of Libya used some of this wealth to improve farmland and provide services for the people. Almost all of Libya’s people are of mixed Arab and Berber ancestry and are Muslims. Until the early 1900’s‚ Libya consisted of three separate geographical and historical regions. It became a united‚ independent country in 1951. Libya’s official name is the Great
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28th‚ 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington‚ DC. Some say that it was an effective speech and some say it wasn’t. In his speech Martin Luther King Jr. tried to convince his audience that all people should be treated equally. He believed that black people should have the same rights as the white people and not be punished as brutal than whites. In his speech King use pathos‚ ethos‚ and logos to try and get his audience to agree with him. He begins his speech by telling a short story about how
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