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Acknowledgements
Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. Privacy and Intercultural Communication
2.1 Culture
2.2 Communication
2.3 Intercultural Communication
2.4 Privacy
2.4.1 Privacy in intercultural communication
2.4.2 An overview of study on privacy
Ⅲ. Communication Failures and Privacy
3.1 Potential obstacles to intercultural communication
3.1.1 Perception
3.1.2 Verbal factors
3.1.3 Nonverbal factors
3.1.4 Level of knowing and accepting cultural differences
3.2 Communication failures caused by different privacy
3.3 Causes behind different privacy
3.3.1 Collectivism and individualism
3.3.2 High and low context cultures
3.3.3 Agriculture and Industry Cultures
3.3.4 Influences of globalization
Ⅳ. Verbal Contrastive Analysis on Chinese and American Privacy
4.1 Privacy reflected in language
4.1.1 Privacy and conventional sayings
4.1.2 Privacy and euphemisms
4.2 Privacy reflected in conversation topics
V. Nonverbal Contrastive Analysis on Chinese and American Privacy
5.1 Privacy and Territoriality
5.1.1 Reflected in home territory
5.1.2 Reflected in office territory
5.1.3 Reflected in object territory
5.1.4 Reflected in personal information territory
5.2 Privacy and Space
5.2.1 Privacy and fixed-feature space
5.2.2 Privacy and semi-fixed feature space
5.2.3 Privacy and informal space
5.3 Privacy and Distance
5.3.1 Privacy and Queuing
5.3.2 Privacy and crowding
5.3.3 Privacy and touching
Ⅵ. Implications and conclusion
6.1 Implications
6.2 Conclusion
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