东西方文化与英汉语用差异研究

语言反映文化,文化影响语言的使用和发展,我们应从文化的角度去理解语言。东西方文化在人际心理的距离、个人安全感的基础和个人权力重心的倾向等三个方面有很大的差异,反映到英汉两种语言的使用上也存在着很大的差异,研究这些差异,对于在跨文化交际中正确理解英汉两种语言的确切含义,使跨文化交际能够顺利进行具有重要的意义.

On the East-west Culture and Pragmatic Difference between Chinese and English

Language is a mirror of culture, and culture influence the language use and development; we should understand the language from the culture view. the east-west culture have great differences in the distance of the human psychology, the basis of individual security, the trend of the individual power focus, which reflects in the usage of the Chinese and English. By studying the pragmatic differences, we can understand the meanings of the Chinese and English better, which can make the inter-cultural communication, go smoothly.