英语专业毕业论文：跨文化交际背景下的中英文禁忌语对比研究.doc

跨文化交际背景下的中英文禁忌语对比研究 【关键词】比较；英国禁忌语；中国禁忌语；跨文化交际 I. IntroductionIn China,?“入境而问禁；入国而问俗；入门而问讳” 1 have been a norm of behavior for thousands of years．Similarly, in west，“when in Rome，do as the Romans do．”is also the norm of western．For the purpose of successful intercultural communication, both east and west people all emphasize on the studying the knowledge of taboos. And linguistic taboo exists universally in almost all of the languages and cultures．The violation of linguistic taboo is regarded impolite and offensive，but people from different cultures do not all agree on what are linguistic taboos and what should be tabooed．Even taboo in the same thing may have different implications，since people from different cultures have established different social customs and cultural orientations．In intercultural communication，they may interpret each other’s? speech and behavior in accordance with their own beliefs and values and adopt different politeness strategies to achieve their goals．At the same time，with the development of transportation, information technology? and the globalization of economy, communication between people from different cultures are increasingly frequent and extensive．In this process，people are increasingly conscious of the existence of cultural diversity, and they gradually notice that differences produce great barriers to social or intercultural communication.Human tolerance and desire for communication do help to reduce these differences and enhance mutual understanding but there are still some aspects such as some taboos that are beyond people’s acceptability because of its sensitiveness，misunderstanding?,unhappiness，conflict or even disastrous consequences may occur due to the violation of certain taboos．Considering what have been mentioned above, when intercultural communication occurs more frequently and more extensively, a systematic study of linguistic taboos in intercultural communication becomes an imperative．Mastering taboos know