民俗制约交往规则的理论与实践研究

A Theoretical and Practical Study of Folkways Restrictions on Rules of Communication

民俗,作为某一文化比较稳定的行为规范,对人群生活、思维和行为方式的影响虽然不是明确的,但却是潜移默化的,而且也是持久而顽强的。民俗对交往规则具有制约性,民俗的文化差异普遍存在,研究和比较不同文化的民俗对增加跨文化交往的有效性具有十分现实的意义。

Folkways, as a time-honored blueprint of behavior in our culture, indefinitely has an unconscious yet strong and lasting influence on the ways of living, thinking and acting in human society. The article attempts to explain the folkways restrictions on rules of communication from both theoretical and practical aspects. It focus its discussion on the differences in some speech acts among Chinese, American and Japanese folkways that are most likely to cause misunderstanding or even cultural conflicts. Consequently, it's of great importance to study and compare various folkways so as to improve the process of cross-cultural communication.