元信息混淆现象的文化阐释

Cultural Interpretation of the Mixed Meta-message Phenomenon

英汉民族跨文化交际中多种因素的存在和干扰 ,导致交际者意图传递的元信息常常被交际对象混淆及错误解读。这种现象的产生 ,主要源于两个民族对群体意识和个体意识间关系的认识上的不平衡以及两种语言在形式与语言功能上的不对应。对元信息的认知和解读离不开积淀深厚的文化。所以本文就从文化的角度对元信息混淆现象及产生这一现象的两对矛盾加以阐释。

Due to the existence and interference of various factors in English and Chinese languages, the meta-message, a communicator intends to convey is often mixed by his audience in cross-cultural communication. This phenomenon results mainly from the two pairs of problems sense of community and sense of independence, language form and its function. The author holds that the proper interpretation of this phenomenon and the two pairs of problems can only be made from the viewpoint of culture.