首页
登录
职称英语
[originaltext] At your next meeting, wait for a pause in conversation and try
[originaltext] At your next meeting, wait for a pause in conversation and try
游客
2023-08-08
66
管理
问题
At your next meeting, wait for a pause in conversation and try to measure how long it lasts.
Chances are—especially among English speakers—it will be a second or two at most.
Even among sign language speakers, studies show that typically we leave just a fraction of a second between taking turns to talk. But while this pattern may be universal, our perceptions of silence differ dramatically across cultures—a crucial detail if you’re doing business internationally.
Research conducted at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands in Dutch and also in English found that when a silence in conversation stretched to four seconds, people started to feel unsettled.
In contrast, a separate study of business meetings found that Japanese people were happy with silences of 8.2 seconds—nearly twice as long as in Americans’ meetings.
These cultural differences are reflected in the saying in the US that "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" while in Japan it’s reckoned that " a silent man is the best one to listen to. "
So why do mother-tongue English speakers find long pauses hard to handle?
In the US, it may stem from the history of colonial America as a crossroads of many different peoples, says Carbaugh. " When you have a heterogeneous complex of difference, it’s hard to establish common understanding unless you talk and there’s understandably a kind of anxiety unless people are verbally engaged to establish a common life," he says. This applies also to some extent to London, he adds.
In contrast, he says, " When there’s more identity perhaps it’s easier for some kinds of silence to appear. For example, among your closest friends and family it’s easier to sit in silence than with people you’re less well acquainted with. "
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
12. How long can English speakers wait for a pause in conversation at a meeting?
13. What did the research conducted at the University of Groningen find?
14. Why do Americans find long silences hard to handle according to Carbaugh?
15. When will people feel free to sit in silence?
选项
A、Colonial America was a place of different peoples in history.
B、Americans are eager to build mutual understanding quickly.
C、Colonial Americans needed to clear the differences among them.
D、Americans lack the patience to wait for others to ponder.
答案
A
解析
转载请注明原文地址:http://tihaiku.com/zcyy/2906813.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]Thetimeis9o’clockandthisisMarianSnowwiththenews.
[originaltext]Thetimeis9o’clockandthisisMarianSnowwiththenews.
[originaltext]Thetimeis9o’clockandthisisMarianSnowwiththenews.
[originaltext]Amongglobalwarming’smostfrighteningthreatsisthepredic
[originaltext]Amongglobalwarming’smostfrighteningthreatsisthepredic
[originaltext]FlorenceHayesisajournalistfortheGreenVilleJournal,t
[originaltext]FlorenceHayesisajournalistfortheGreenVilleJournal,t
[originaltext]FlorenceHayesisajournalistfortheGreenVilleJournal,t
[originaltext]Somehowtheoldmaleandfemalestereotypesnolongerfit.Me
[originaltext]ThereareroughlythreeNewYorks.Thereis,first,theNewY
随机试题
LastyearFrenchdriverskilled【C1】______than5,000peopleontheroadsfor
Theproblemwiththenature-nurturedebateisthatthisisaninadequateway
MostAmericanstudentsare______tospend180daysayearatschool.A、intendedB、
党的十八大报告指出,建设中国特色社会主义,总依据是()。A.社会主义初级阶段
在中性点直接接地的电网中,发生单相接地时,健全相对地电压有时会超过线电压。
股权投资基金的收益分配主要在()之间进行。 Ⅰ.基金投资者 Ⅱ.基金管理人
适宜空腹服用的药物是A.安神药 B.解表药 C.驱虫药 D.滋补药
宽带是传送比特的能力。宽带每秒钟能够传送大量的比特。尽管很多人把宽带比喻成水管
由于过去经验的影响,人们在从事某种活动前往往有一种心理准备状态,这是( )。
某小学有12岁学生150人,根据WHO的2010年口腔健康目标,龋齿总数不应超过
最新回复
(
0
)