合作原则和礼貌原则的跨文化视角

合作原则和礼貌原则是语用学中关于会话的两个重要的理论,它们是人类社会语言行为研究领域中的重大成果。但这些理论的提出并没有充分考虑到文化差异这个因素,而这与日益频繁的国际交流是极不相称的。本文正是从跨文化的角度分析中西社会文化背景下的人们在会话中的对于合作原则和礼貌原则在理解和体现方面的差异。

Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle, two important theories on conversation in Pragmatics, are great contributions to the study of human language in usage. While, the lack of consideration for cultural differences is one of their problem, and it becomes more obvious in the background of increasingly frequent international contacts of nowadays. From an intercultural perspective, this paper analyzes the differences that exist in Chinese versus western people’s understanding and implementation of these two conversational principles.