1、 Analysis of Socio-pragmatic Failures in Cross-cultural Communication 1 Sino-US Cross-cultural Communication Pragmatic Failure Analysis Abstract In recent years, the trend of Economic globalization, China-US cooperation in economic, political, and cultural exchanges in various fields grow closer. Th
2、e Sino-US cross-cultural communication process, communication since the two sides ignored the cultural connotation of the language itself can cause various aspects of pragmatic failures. This paper attempts the analysis of Sino-US Cross-cultural communication in Pragmatic Failure on the basis of the
3、 phenomenon to explore the cause of Sino-US Cross-cultural Pragmatic Failure in Intercultural Communication and put forward the reasons for cross-cultural Pragmatic Failure to avoid some of the recommendations. Keywords: cross-cultural communication Cultural Differences Pragmatic Failure First, an o
4、verview of In recent years, the trend of Economic globalization, China-US cooperation in economic, political, and cultural exchanges in various fields such as getting closer and closer, this cross-cultural communication and social progress of both countries played a great role in promoting. The two
5、countries, however, there are different historical path of development, different environments and different cultural background, people in language, cultural orientation, values, social norms, ways of thinking will lead to differences in areas such as cross-cultural communication in the many differ
6、ences in the use of English, communication can easily occur when you do not understand each other, misunderstanding and Analysis of Socio-pragmatic Failures in Cross-cultural Communication 2 misinterpretation of the phenomenon, namely cross-cultural communication in the phenomenon of pragmatic failu
7、res, thereby cross-cultural communication on the United States have tremendous negative impact. Second, cross-cultural Pragmatic Failure (A) Cross-cultural Pragmatic Failure definition Cross-cultural Pragmatic Failure is a pragmatic rules caused by migration. Specifically, the speaker does not unwit
8、tingly violate the rules of the communication norms, social conventions, or sub-time and space, do not look at an object, regardless of the identity of both communication, status, and other occasions, contrary to the purpose of language-specific cultural values, so that the interruption of communica
9、tion or failure of the communicative obstacles, resulting in communication can not achieve the desired results, or fail to perfect communication effect, the error of this nature is called Pragmatic Failure (Ya, Dailing, 2002). Cross-cultural Communication Pragmatic Failure does give people of differ
10、ent cultural backgrounds in cross-cultural communication in mutual understanding and harmony in social life has brought great difficulties to make people worry depressed, or have misunderstood, which greatly hindered cross-cultural communication activities. (B) Cross-cultural Pragmatic Failure Class
11、ification According to the British linguist Jenny Thomass point of view, cross-cultural Pragmatic Failure can be divided into social pragmatic language errors and Pragmatic Failures in two categories. Thomas believes that the emergence of pragmatic language errors are usually due to the form of fore
12、ign language learners against the principle of the right to use the wrong form of language to express the correct speech act； or because the speaker or the listener the wrong translation of linguistic information, in particular, is wrong solution Analysis of Socio-pragmatic Failures in Cross-cultura
13、l Communication 3 the power of discourse pragmatics, speech acts that do not know if you want to express the intent or rhetorical force. Pragmatic language mistakes are sometimes also refers to the native learners of a word or phrase structure, the meaning applied to the language used on the result
14、of pragmatic failures. Socio-pragmatic failure, it is because of the socio-cultural pragmatics are due to lack of capacity is a pragmatic person fails to complete the required communicative illocutionary scenario making. Specifically, social pragmatic failure is due to different cultural backgrounds
15、, committed to pragmatic errors. What if the stresses involved in what words should not be speaking, interpersonal distance, peoples rights and obligations, and the value of peoples values. Such as the following example, a Chinese student opposite to his American and American friends take a magazine
16、 to see, He said Would you be kind enough to lend it to me?. Chinese students in this way too polite library will make his American friends feel uncomfortable, because it means the request is only applicable to those who are not familiar with, or more than their high-status people. However, the Chin
17、ese students want to insert themselves in a lower position to express the respect of friends. The typical Chinese thinking and values of American society collisions, resulting in social pragmatic failure. Third, China-US cross-cultural communication of the reasons for Pragmatic Failure Sino-US Pragm
18、atic Failure in Intercultural Communication is mainly the great Sino-US cultural diversity. This is mainly manifested in the following aspects. (A) The difference between the values of First of all, Chinese Culture advocates collectivism, while the U.S. Culture that values individualism. In China, the mutual trust between people, unity and
