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A Review on Gudykunst’s Major Contribution and His Influences on ICC Studies

Author: GuoYanHong
Tutor: HuangZuoLin
School: Chongqing University
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Gudykunst Contribution Intercultural Communication Affect
CLC: C912.3
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2009
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Abstract

Due to the enormous changes taking place in the field of Communication and Transportation Research and the rapid development of the world economy, the cultural exchanges between the increasingly frequent. Direct contact with people from different countries the opportunity to have a substantial increase. Have interdependent world, explore the cross-cultural communication has become essential to the rapid development of the field of cross-cultural communication, is in line with the development of the times and requirements. Intercultural communication as a discipline in the United States, was founded in the 1950s, to be the foundation in the 1960s, has been consolidated in the 1970s. In cross-cultural disciplines into the 80s this past period, as the representative of a group of scholars to William B. Gudykunst construct a dynamic cross-cultural communication theory. So that intercultural communication research focus has gradually shifted from the comparison and analysis of different cultural communication differences go to study cross-cultural communication dynamic process. Gudykunst the rare prolific scholars in the field of cross-cultural communication, in the short span of 57 years of the life course, he made a great contribution to the development of cross-cultural communication disciplines. Gudykunst mainly focused on the theoretical study of the effectiveness of interpersonal and group communication, and use these principles to improve the level of communication. He is a cross-cultural communication theory, the pilot of the personal and interpersonal intercultural communicative competence theory. Brings together the public dissemination of scholarly basis, he not only some of the concepts of intercultural communication has been further elaborated and distinction, and make a unique contribution to the research areas of uncertainty and anxiety, the formation of anxiety / uncertainty management ( AUM) complete theory. In addition, who formulated some important theory of cross-cultural communication, and proposed three criteria of appraisal theory, have made outstanding contributions to theory development and innovation in cross-cultural communication. In this paper, a comprehensive analysis of the literature review and analysis of the Gudykunst important contribution, found the Gudykunst these theories in practice widely used in the development process based on the review of cross-cultural communication studies, and cross-cultural communication studies There are a lot of sense. On the whole, the the Gudykunst theory the impact is positive, In Gudykunst, we can see some of the limitations of the theory. To Gudykunst learning the theoretical results, combined with China's actual situation, to further develop cross-cultural communication studies to construct Chinese characteristics, cross-cultural communication theory, and can be better to put theory into practice will not only help so that we in the economic, trade many fields to avoid cultural mistakes, reduce conflicts between different cultures, and to promote cultural exchanges between various ethnic groups.

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