In cross-cultural communication,we often encounter several problems resulted from cross-cultural pragmatic failure.The reason for this phenomenon is that,as communicators,people often ignore the existence of pragmatic...In cross-cultural communication,we often encounter several problems resulted from cross-cultural pragmatic failure.The reason for this phenomenon is that,as communicators,people often ignore the existence of pragmatic differences in social contact and human relations between Chinese and other foreign languages,and we are often confused about when,where,how,what and to whom we should speak.In this paper,I will try to discuss cross-cultural pragmatic failure,pragmatic differences between Chinese and the native speakers of English and what we should pay attention to in our ESL teaching.展开更多
Because of differences in habits and customs, logical thinking, as well as cultural values between Chinese and English,there are pragmatics differences in social greetings, thanks, banquets, invitations, and apologies...Because of differences in habits and customs, logical thinking, as well as cultural values between Chinese and English,there are pragmatics differences in social greetings, thanks, banquets, invitations, and apologies language communication occasions. Thus, it is important to explore the language habits with different culture backgrounds of language communications and language features and study the pragmatic failure led by people using a foreign language because of the differences of social and cultural factors.展开更多
文摘In cross-cultural communication,we often encounter several problems resulted from cross-cultural pragmatic failure.The reason for this phenomenon is that,as communicators,people often ignore the existence of pragmatic differences in social contact and human relations between Chinese and other foreign languages,and we are often confused about when,where,how,what and to whom we should speak.In this paper,I will try to discuss cross-cultural pragmatic failure,pragmatic differences between Chinese and the native speakers of English and what we should pay attention to in our ESL teaching.
文摘Because of differences in habits and customs, logical thinking, as well as cultural values between Chinese and English,there are pragmatics differences in social greetings, thanks, banquets, invitations, and apologies language communication occasions. Thus, it is important to explore the language habits with different culture backgrounds of language communications and language features and study the pragmatic failure led by people using a foreign language because of the differences of social and cultural factors.
