跨文化交际研究所（Intercultural Communication Institute）由来自不同语种、不同学术背景、富有经验的教师组成。本研究所以中西文化传播交流为宗旨，通过搭建各种跨学科、跨文化的研究平台，对各种跨文化/跨语种的实际问题进行综合系统地研究，是院级教学科研机构。
本所主要研究方向为跨文化交际研究，涉及海洋文化、商务英语、经济、外事、旅游、教育、传播等学术领域。从跨文化角度对各种跨文化现象，跨文化交际能力的培养以及相关课程的开发进行研究。该研究所目前承担了多种项目，多个层次的研究项目，同时也承担学校英语、日语、等相关课程的教学和研究。研究所还将利用其优势，开展不同层次、面对不同领域的与跨文化交际有关的培训和社会服务，努力创造条件，向多学科交叉的方向发展。
所 长：常宗林教授
副所长：张韶岩教授
The Intercultural Communication Institute (ICI) is research unit, under the direct jurisdiction of the Foreign Languages College, Ocean University of China, with the mission of fostering the cross-cultural awareness and the appreciation of cultural differences in both international and domestic arenas.
With the belief that intercultural communication, a form of communication that aims to share information across different cultures and to describe the wide range of communication processes and problems that naturally appear within the social contexts from different religious, social, ethnic, and educational backgrounds, ICI seeks to understand how people from different countries and cultures act, communicate and perceive the world around them and how individuals encode messages, what medium they choose for transmitting them, and the way messages are interpreted.
With regard to intercultural communication proper, ICI studies situations where people from different cultural backgrounds interact. Aside from language, it focuses on social attributes, thought patterns, and the cultures of different groups of people. It also aims to understand the different cultures, languages and customs of people from other countries. It plays a very important role in the cross-cultural studies in social sciences such as business, cultural studies, marine cultural studies, linguistics, tourism study and communication studies. As the base for international businesses, it can provide cross-cultural service to assist with the development of intercultural communication skills. It can also offers professional development opportunities for people working in education, training, business, and management, in both international and domestic intercultural contexts.
