文化预设与师生思维对接

Cultural Presupposition and the Thinking Joint between Students and Teacher in English Teaching

预设是自然语言使用时的一种普遍现象,而文化预设指一定社会中被人们所共识但以潜在假设形式存在的信条和理念,这种潜在形式为生活在同一社会的群体所接受与共享。文化预设的合适性和共知性要求预设要与文化语境紧密结合,以避免跨文化交际中人们以各自的社会共识或群体意识来解释和理解不同文化中的同一种交际行为而导致语用失误。教师对文化预设功能的认识和运用,能够促进师生思维对接,使学生更好地了解文化语用原则和不同的语用规范,培养文化敏悟性,提高跨文化交际能力。

Presupposition is a general phenomenon, while ＂cultural presupposition＂ refers to the common understanding of the tenet and notion that exists in the form of potential supposition, which is accepted and shared by the people who live in the same society. The felicity and mutual knowledge of cultural presupposition require that presupposition must be closely combined with cultural context in order to avoid the pragmatic failure that is caused in the intercultural communication, in which people explain and understand the same communicational behavior in different culture with their respective social knowledge and consciousness. In college English teaching, teachers＇ realization and applying on cultural presupposition can promote the joint between students and teachers＇ thinking, help students further understand cultural pragmatic rules and different pragmatic norms, cultivate their cultural sensitivity and increase their intercultural communication ability.