Research on the Different Ways of Thinking between Chinese and Western People and Barriers in Cross-cultural Communication

摘要

Thinking is a mental process revealing how people get to know the outside world. Thinking modes have the characteristic of stability, structurization and stylization. Therefore, the ways of thinking is the thinking structure which has certain popularity and stability, and it is formed in the process of human cognition. Cross-cultural communication is the communication among people in different culture backgrounds. Different cultures cause kinds of differences between China and the West, and among them the different ways of thinking is the most basic one. This paper mainly studies the problems that arise due to different ways of thinking between China and the West and provides some ways to handle with these problems so as to reduce or avoid culture barriers in cross-cultural communication between China and the West.