汉英礼貌称谓的对比研究

The Comparative Study the Couresy Addressing Language between English and Chinese

如何选择恰当的称谓是人们社会交际能力的一个重要组成部分。由于文化传统和文化心理有异,英汉称谓在言语交流中差异较大。本文从跨文化交际的角度,就英汉称谓的类型及并同进行了对比,分析了造成这种差异的文化成因,指出能否正确使用称谓语是汉英跨文化交际成败的重要因素。

Knowing how to choose proper addressing forms is one of the major constituents of a speaker's communicative competence.Both English and Chinese addresses in social communication differ greatly in speech acts owing to different cultural content,tradition and mentality.From the perspective of the cross cultural communi- cation,this paper makes a comparison between the different types of social address in beth languages and their simi- larities and differences.And as a consequence it makes an analysis of their cultural significance and what loads to such differences,and conclude that proper use of addressing is of vital importance to any intercultural communica- tion.