【毕业论文】跨文化交际中的语用失误.docVIP

【标题】?跨文化交际中的语用失误 【作者】胡艺山 【关键词】?语用失误　跨文化交际　英语教学 【指导老师】谷 茂 【专业】英语教育 【正文】1.1Definitions of pragmatic failureJenny Thomas?(1983) defines pragmatic failure as the inability to understand what is meant by what is said. According to Professor He Ziran?(1997), pragmatic failure is caused by the speaker who cannot speak appropriately in a specific situation, or cannot use English accustomed to the different cultural communication, which leads to the hearer’s misunderstanding of the speaker’s intention. G.Leech?(1983) said?“the transfer of the norms of one community to another may well lead to pragmatic failure”. In other words, pragmatic failure refers to communication breakdown resulting from being unable to realize a variety of pragmatic differences. We do not use the term?“error” to refer to pragmatic failure because it occurs when the learner expresses himself in an inappropriate manner. Different from grammatical errors, pragmatic failure may be regarded as a fact that a non-English native speaker is being deliberately impolite, unfriendly or even rude.1.2 The classification of pragmatic failureThomas classifies pragmatic failure into two types: pragmalinguistic failure and sociopragmatic failure.?Pragmalinguistic failure occurs when learners do not express themselves in a linguistically appropriate manner. One kind of such failure arises when two languages share the same expression but use it in different situations. For example, it is common in Chinese to give a response to thanks by saying?“mei guan xi”. If we translate?“mei guan xi” into English as?“Never mind”, the English addressee would not be able to interpret the utterance as an acknowledgement of thanks. Though the literal meaning of?“Never mind” is equal to the Chinese?“mei guan xi”, the communicative conventions behind the two expressions are different.?Sociopragmatic failure arises when learners produce socially inappropriate behavior. Different culture has different assessment towards?“