Cross-cultural Communication Patterns In U.s. Confucius Institute, Investigation And Analysis

Since November 17, 2004, when China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (CNOTCFL) or "Han Ban" signed an agreement with the United States to build the first Confucius Institute i.e. "Confucius Institute at the University of Maryland," the development of Confucius Institutes in the Americas, especially its rapid development in the United States, has made the US a country that possesses the largest lumber of Confucius Institutes in the world. Against this background, cross-cultural studies, including this article on the investigation and research about the cross-cultural communicative patterns of the Confucius Institutes at the United States, are bound to provide a useful reference for the operation of the Confucius Institutes in the world and the dissemination of other Chinese culture institutions overseas, and at the same time, the research will also provide a new perspective to the research questions on communicative barriers and cultural conflicts in the communicative process of international foreign-language teachers.Viewed as a whole, the author adopted the method of quantitative analysis to carry on a comparative study of characterization on the communicative patterns in the Confucius Institute at the United States. This study, through the analysis of culture architecture and the comparison of the core values of the cultures, recalls, analyzes and discusses different cultural diversity perspectives and cultural concepts, and then on the basis of further analysis and research on the differences in the two cross-cultural communicative patterns, the author puts forward five descriptive assumptions on the communicative patterns of the two sides' employees in a Confucius Institute at the United States. Then the author carries out a targeted investigation and analysis, and finally gives the conclusion of the survey.The results of the survey show that in the Confucius Institute at the United States, the communicative patterns of the two sides' employees are steadily narrowing their differences. With China's growing national strength and the continuous advancement of the spread of Chinese culture, cultures of China and the United States tend to keep integrating in the frequent exchanges of the two sides of employees, and the communicative modes of the two sides have become increasingly evident in the case of convergence.