英语翻译Intercultural Communication Midterm1.Communication is sy

英语翻译
Intercultural Communication Midterm
1.Communication is symbolic
Symbols are central to the communication process because they represent the shared meanings that are communicated.A symbol is a word,action,or object that stands for or represents a unit of meaning.Meaning,in turn,is a perception,thought,or feeling that a person experiences and might want to communicate to others.
People’s behaviors are frequently interpreted symbolically,as an external representation of feelings,emotions,and internal states.It is quite possible for a community of language users to agree to refer to some objects by using symbols that differ from the common ones.And for many symbol systems,such as most nonverbal and visual ones,the relationship between the symbols and their referents is much less arbitrary than that of verbal languages.
2.Communication is interpretive
Communication is always an interpretive process.Whenever people communicate,they must interpret the symbolic behaviors of others and assign significance to some of those behaviors in order to create a meaningful account of the others’ actions.
There are two very different outcomes of the communication process.The first outcome of communication is understanding what the others are trying to communicate.Understanding means that the participants have imposed similar or shared interpretations about what the messages actually mean.The second outcome is reaching agreement on the particular issues that have been disc