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Abstract：Covert culture is the important breakthrough point in doing cross-culture communication researches, coming through the culture barriers in communication, and achieving successful cross-culture communications. Movie, as the only comprehensive art form can faithfully reflect the reality itself, and can also serve as the breakthrough point in exploring and disclosing the covert culture. This essay will take the movie Gua Sha-The Treatment for example to explore and disclose American covert culture through several cultural clues such as American democratic attitude toward children, American rational thinking pattern and strong legal sense, and American family value, etc.
摘要：隐蔽文化作为是进行跨文化交际研究、跨越跨文化交际障碍、成功实现跨文化交际的重要切入点。电影作为反映现实本身的唯一综合艺术语言可成为揭秘隐蔽文化的突破口。本文将以电影《刮痧》为例，通过对美国人的教育观、法制观、家庭价值观等丰富的文化线索深入发掘，从而揭秘美国隐蔽文化。
关键词：隐蔽文化；电影；跨文化交际；美国文化
作者简介：何艳丽，女，郑州大学外语学院2011级硕士研究生，研究方向：英语语言文学英美文学方向。
[中图分类号]：I235.1[文献标识码]：A
[文章编号]：1002-2139(2012)-11-0240-01
Covert Culture
According to Edward T. Hall, there are two layers of culture, overt culture and covert culture. Covert culture is invisible and can rarely be acknowledged even by the specially trained observers, which lying in the deepest part of the culture. Yet we can eventually find out them through perceptible things, explored and disclosed layer by layer.
To Disclose Covert Culture through Movies
Movie is a comprehensive fine art, an audio-visual language or a comprehensive media of image and sound. With these characteristics, movie can be able to represent the reality much more faithfully. This essay will chose the movie Gua Sha—The Treatment as the breakthrough point to uncover the mysterious veil of some aspects of American covert culture.
Gua Sha-The Treatment and American Covert Culture
Gua Sha-The Treatment (Gua Sha for short) tells about a story happened in America: Chinese immigrants Datong Xu’s father came to America for a visit from the mainland china and gave a traditional Chinese medicine therapy called Gua Sha to his grandson Denis to give him a treatment because of Denis’ pain in the stomach. Unexpectedly, the treatment traces remained on Denis’s back becomes the proof of child abuse in America and brings about a series of troubles to Datong Xu and his family.
Culture clue one: American attitude toward children
Datong Xu was accused by the doctor and the nurse of child abuse and was deprived of his guardianship. That is because parents in America are only the legal guardians and people whoever fails to give their children good care will be deprived of the guardianship of their children. Then, the children’s welfare house will take the guardianship of the children according to the American written laws.
Culture Clue Two: Rational Thinking Pattern and Strong Legal Sense
American citizen’s awareness about the legal system and understanding of obligations have been stretching into everywhere in people’s life. That is why Datong Xu’s American friend Kunlan at first wanted to decline Datong’s request and suggested Datong to find a professional family law lawyer when Daong Xu asked his friend as well as his boss Kunlan to be his counsel in the hearing.
Culture Clue Three: American Family Value
In Gua Sha, Datong Xu’s American friend-Kunlan could not understand why Datong lied to the judge that it was he who did Gua Sha to Denis. To Americans , people are born equal and should take their own responsible, even between family members.
Conclusion
Movie can serve as perceptual, vivid, authentic and panoramic materials for the research. The process of exploring and disclosing the covert cultures through movie is at the same time the process to come across the cultural barriers and to cultivate cultural communication competence. Therefore, a series of programs will emerge associating with cross-culture communication. And all these need our best endeavor to explore and disclose.
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