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Indexed by: Journal Article

Date of Publication: 2018-01-01

Journal: JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Included Journals: Scopus、PubMed、EI、SCIE

Volume: 143

Issue: 1

Page Number: 373-377

ISSN: 0001-4966

Abstract: A questionnaire survey was carried out for a comparative study between Chinese and English potential tourists to examine their soundscape expectation. The results show that while both groups prefer natural sounds most, compared to the English, the Chinese expect natural, livestock, melodic sounds more, and traffic and industrial sounds less. The sound categories related to the interactions between human activities and nature play a more dominant role for the English than the Chinese, in terms of preference of sound sources. On the expectation of a holistic soundscape, function is the most important aspect for the Chinese, while that for the English is sound characteristics; the expected psychological perception for the English is associated with emotional response rather than basic ecology consciousness, as for the Chinese. (C) 2018 Acoustical Society of America.