The Speech Acts in Cross-cultural Communication

In cross-cultural communication, miscommunication or misunderstanding is a common phenomenon because peoplefrom different backgrounds have different rules of speech acts and cultural conventions. In order to overcome the difficulties of mis-communication and improve effective cross-cultural communication, more research is needed to study the speech acts from cultureto culture. In this paper, the author mainly studies three patterns of speech acts studied by previous researchers, including apology,greeting, and compliment, discusses what previous researchers studied on the three speech acts in cross-cultural communication,and then analyzes them with real examples in cross-cultural communication.