跨文化交际的哲学理解与外语教学中的文化传授

Philosophical Speculations on Cross-cultural Communication and Teaching of Culture in Foreign Language Teaching

本文借助语言哲学的相关理论,讨论了跨文化交际的问题,指出文化差异有其必然性,但文化差异是可以通过交流和教育来弥合的,因为文化本质上讲是语言使用者所具有的关于世界、人生的知识信念系统。因此,本文认为文化教学可以独立地进行,以帮助学生通过问题与思辨、为不同的文化信念寻找合理性解释来丰富自己的文化知识信念系统。

Based on relevant theories of philosophy of language, this paper presents a discussion on the issue of cross-culture communication, showing that cultural discrepancy does have its necessity, but can be made commensurable through language exchange and education. This is so because culture consists essentially of the system of beliefs a speaker has of the world and life. Such being the case, this paper proposes an independent curriculum for the teaching of culture to help students enrich their system of cultural beliefs, by virtue of questioning and speculating in an effort to find the rationale for foreign cultural beliefs.