本科毕业论文（设计）
题目 | A Contrastive Study on Chine and Western Privacy |
| 浅析中西隐私观差异 |
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二〇 一二 年 四 月 十五 日
Abstract
With the rapid development of globalization, the intercultural communication becomes more frequent in an amazing speed. As a universal phenomenon, privacy exists in every culture. Different culture has different concepts of privacy and different ways to deal with it, which results in cultural crash and conflict unavoidably. Therefore, this thesis is dedicated to demonstrate the differences on Chine and Western privacy and the caus.
Since 1960s, people have studied privacy from different angles and different aspects, and agreed that privacy is restricted by society, culture and so on. Bad on the previous study, this thesis us examples to make a contrastive study on Chine and Western privacy i.e. privacy reflected in personal information, territory, distance and space. Personal information includes privacy on economic status, age, marriage and x, and territory involves privacy reflected in home, office and object territory. In addition, the diffe
rence in Chine and Western privacy is manifested in distance and space. And then, the thesis analyzes the caus of the privacy differences with the knowledge of different privacy concepts, different context cultures and different cultural values from the perspective of culture. It aims at familiarizing English learners with cross-culture background, developing their cross-cultural awareness, and reducing unnecessary communication failures.
Key words: privacy; contrastive study; culture; caus
摘要
随着全球化的进程，跨文化交际日益频繁。隐私是一种社会普遍现象，存在于各个文化中。由于对有着不同文化的人的隐私观念和处理方式不了解，在跨文化交际中就难免产生文化碰撞和文化冲突。所以，比较中西隐私观差异以求将跨文化交际冲突减少到最小就成了本文研究的主要目的。
从上个世纪六十年代起，人们就从不同角度、不同方面对隐私观作了系统的研究，并一致
认为隐私观的存在离不开社会、文化等方面的限制。本文将在前人的研究基础上，结合实例，对中西隐私观在日常生活中的主要体现进行对比研究,研究发现这些差异主要体现在个人信息隐私、区域隐私、距离隐私与空间隐私四个方面。其中个人信息隐私主要包括经济状况、年龄、婚姻和性的隐私；区域隐私主要涉及家庭区域、办公区域以及私人物品区域的隐私。然后从文化的角度--隐私概念差异、价值取向和高低文化语境分析探讨这些隐私差异形成的原因。这有助于英语学习者了解和掌握跨文化交际隐私，减少不必要的交际失误。
关键词：隐私观；对比研究；文化；原因
Contents
Abstract I
摘要 II
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Literature Review 3
1.1 Concept of Culture 3
1.2 Concept of Privacy 4
1.3 Relationship between Privacy and Culture 5
1.4 Review of Studies on Privacy 6
Chapter 2 Contrastive Analysis on Chine and Western Privacy 8
2.1 Privacy about Personal Information 8
2.1.1 Economic Status 8
2.1.2 Age 9
2.1.3 Marriage 10
2.1.4 Sex 10
2.2 Privacy Reflected in Territory 11
2.2.1 Home Territory 12
2.2.2 Office Territory 13
2.2.3 Object Territory 13
2.3 Privacy Reflected in Distance 14
2.4 Privacy Reflected in Space 15
Chapter 3 Caus of the Differences 17
3.1 Different Concepts of Privacy 17
3.1.1 Western Concept of Privacy 17
3.1.2 Chine Concept of Privacy 18
3.2 Different Cultural Values 19
3.2.1 Western Individualism 20
3.2.2 Chine Collectivism 21
3.3 High-context Culture and Low-context Culture 21
Conclusion 24
Bibliography 25
Acknowledgements 27
Appendix A: Informative Chine Abstract 28
