跨文化交际中的语言失误(英语专业毕业论文_跨文化交际方向)

2024年3月15日发(作者：诗情画意)

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英语专业跨文化交际课程论文

A Study of Social Pragmatic Failures in Cross-cultural

Communication

Abstract: Pragmatic failure is one of the main sources that give ri to cross-cultural communication

breakdowns. Due to the different interpretations of politeness between Chine and English cultures,

pragmatic failures often exist in cross-cultural communications, resulting in communication breakdowns.

This paper focus on a study of politeness in its manifestations in Chine and English cultures. It

provides basic theories of politeness, cross-cultural communication and cross-cultural pragmatic failure,

and points out the differences in interpretation of politeness between Chine and English cultures, with the

purpo of exploring the resources of tho differences, so as to avoid pragmatic failures of politeness and

effect successful cross-cultural communications. In brief, the findings of this paper support the view that

pragmatic failures do exist in greeting, accepting gifts, table manner and many other aspects of daily

communication becau of people’s different interpretations of politeness between Chine and English

cultures. Therefore, it is of great necessity to understand cultural differences, so as to avoid

misunderstandings and miscommunications.

Key Word: politeness; cross-cultural pragmatic failure; cultural differences

摘要：语用失误是造成跨文化交际障碍的主要原因之一。由于中西方对于礼貌这一概念的理解不同，

在日常的跨文化交际中，语用失误时有发生，进而影响了交际效果。本文阐述了礼貌、跨文化交际、

跨文化交际语用失误等基本概念，列举中英不同文化背景下，人们对礼貌这一概念的不同解读，并

进一步探索了这些差异的根源，以期能使人们在跨文化交际中尽量避免礼貌语用失误，顺利实现有

效的跨文化交际。总的来说，本文的研究证实了在中西方的日常交际中，由于对礼貌解读的不同，

双方在会晤、接受礼物、餐桌礼仪等诸多方面存在语用失误现象，因此，人们有必要了解认识文化

间的差异，有效地避免跨文化交际中的误解或障碍。

关键词：礼貌；跨文化交际语用失误；文化差异

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英语专业跨文化交际课程论文

1. Introduction

Recently, there is a wave of globalization due to factors including mass access to internet,

globalization of industry, and expansion of educational exchanges and so on. New

technologies, growth of the world’s population, and shift in the global economic area have all

contributed to the increa in cross-cultural communication. Therefore, cross-cultural

communication has become indispensable today.

Language ud by human beings is the most basic tool for communication, which plays a

crucial role in the process of human historical development. We u words to persuade, to

exchange ideas, to express views, to ek information, and to express feelings. We made

cultural choices when we are using human language to communicate with other people.

Culture shapes our ideas and plays a crucial role on influencing our way of using language. At

the same time, language can also be considered as a window to the culture. They are cloly

connected with each other and can never be parated. Therefore, we should not only learn

linguistic skills well but also know much knowledge about foreign cultures if we want to

conquer a foreign language and become an effective communicator.

But the fact is that many people didn’t pay much attention to the cultural backgrounds

and ud words to communicate with others in an inappropriate way and inappropriate

occasion. In this way, the social pragmatic failures often occur during the cross-cultural

communication.

Becau of the fierce conflicts between the popularity of cross-cultural communication

and the frequently happening communication barriers, the factors affecting communication

are drawing much more attention from the rearchers. In the past two decades, there has been

an increasing interest in the study of pragmatic failures in cross-cultural communication.

Cross-cultural social pragmatic failures have been an important area of pragmatics and

cross-cultural communication studies. The social pragmatic failures are mainly caud by

cultural differences and lack of awareness about this issue. Hence, we have to figure out some

solutions to deal with it, such as strengthen cultural awareness, avoid negative stereotype and

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