全球化语境下的文化冲突

在经济全球化时代，来自不同文化背景的人际交往日益频繁，这是一种跨文化交际。在交际中使用频率最高的媒介是英语．英语几乎到了霸占世界传媒的地步，所以有人称英语为语言帝国主义。语言承栽文化，语言的霸主地位导致了文化上的霸权意识。文化霸权一旦形成就容易引发文化冲突，像经济学家们寻求经济全球化的替代方案一样，语言学家，教育学家们也试图在倡导一种新的英文变体——国际英语，这种国际英语没有属于自己的领土，在文化上是中立的。

Culture Clash in the Context of Globalization

In the context of economic globalization, the medium used for cross - cultural communication is mainly English, which is so widely used all over the world that it almost has dominated international communication. Among other things, its dominant position made people call the English language linguistic imperialism, language is a vehicle carrying culture. The dominant role of the English language easily leads to cultural imperialism, which, some how , in turn, causes culture clash between different cultures. While economists propose alternatives to economic globalization, linguists try to study and devise a new variety of English _ international English, which has no territory. of its own and is culturally neutral.