挖掘文化差异,提升社会和谐——中美“拒绝”言语行为差异探析  

Exploring on Cultural Differences,Promote Social Harmony——Exploration on “Refusal” Speech Acts between China and America

作　　者：李莉斌[1] 

机构地区：[1]石家庄经济学院外国语学院

出　　处：《校园英语》2014年第4期114-120,共7页English On Campus

基　　金：2013年北京市教委社科计划面上项目;项目编号:SM201310031003

摘　　要：和谐是当今社会的主流,委婉拒绝对方也是人生中不可或缺的一部分,没有顺和对方而能把关系处理得很和顺则是交往的至高境界。拒绝是威胁对方面子的言语行为,在实际交往中,为了减少威胁的程度,人们会采取一定的策略,不同文化背景下的人们采用的拒绝策略会有所差异,了解文化差异是跨文化交际中避免语用失误的重要途径。本文在前人研究的基础上,对中国和美国拒绝策略的文化差异等作了研究分析后,得到一些新的发现。Harmony is the mainstream of current society and polite refusal is an indispensible constituent in one’s life, so it is the supreme state of the relationship to refuse your partner politely without annoying him. Refusal is a speech act of threatening face, so people usually take some strategies to reduce the degree of threat in actual communication. People from different cultures adapt different refusal strategies and knowing these differences will make you act freely without pragmatic mistakes. On the basis of former research, this article analyses the cultural differences between China and America and fi nds some new findings.

关 键 词：文化差异 拒绝言语行为 合作原则 面子理论 

分 类 号：H030[语言文字—语言学]