略论跨文化交流的实质

On The Essence of Intercultural Communication

我们生活在符号的世界中,符号化的思维和符号化的行为是人类生活最富有代表性的特征。文化的创造在某种程度上就是符号的创造和运用符号进行的创造。符号形成了文化文本、信息和话语。从这个意义上讲,跨文化交流就是在努力认知不同文化规则的前提下编制和解读不同文化符号所组成的文本。

We live in a world of signs, our thinking and behavior are coated in kinds of signs. We employ signs to communicate a wealth of information, to construct a multitude of relationships and to play a variety of roles. It has been generally believed that the creation of culture is to some extent a creation of symbols and with symbols. Signs shape the text of culture, information and discourse. In this sense, intercultural communication can be defined as the encoding and decoding of the ultimate information based on the knowledge of the targeted cuhural grammar.