英语专业论文(中西方文化禁忌).docVIP

 Due to the development of China and western countries in the international trade,the communication between Chinese and westren people are becoming more and more frequent.Communication could help people to increase their friendliness.But if we don’t know taboos in western countries and say some improper words or do some improper things to our foreign friends,that is impolite.According to this,it’s important to do a research of the taboo in Chinese and western culture. As we all know, taboos exist everywhere in inter-culture communication, so it has been a fairly important field of learning.Different climes bring different kinds of human phyles,and these people would have their particular character differ from each phyles.They built up different cultures with their particular taboos base on their characters.Sometimes,different phyles have intersections on taboos,but sometimes not.So when people communicate with foreigners, it can lead misunderstanding easily, if we don’t know the taboos, we may incur a big trouble, and become a failure when you communicate with foreigners. Nowadays English is widely used in the world,even in the developed countries.We need to make friends with western people and do business with them course the necessity of kowning taboos of western culture. As the proverb says: “When in Roman, do as the Romans do”. I. Some Fundamental Knowledge about Taboo 1.1 Definition of Taboo What is a taboo? In Longman Dictionary of English Language and Culture, the definition of taboo is a strong social or religious custom forbidding a particular act or word, or tech too holy or evil to be touched, named, or used.And in the Xinhua Dictionary of Chinese Language and Culture,the definition of taboo is that people offended by special words and action. 1.2 The origin of taboo in Chinese and Western culture 1.2.1 The origin of taboo in the West The English word “taboo” derives from the Tongan “tabu”, which came to be noticed towards the end of the eighteent