英汉寒暄语的差异分析
毕业论文关键词：寒暄语; 交际; 文化
Abstract In 1923, Malinowski put forward the phrase, which is firstly called phatic communion. He made a detailed survey about communication of New guineans. Through this survey, he found that the way people communicating created relaxing and natural atmosphere. And also this kind of communication avoids people’s embarrassment. This paper adopts the quantitative approach. The author makes a survey concerning about differences in phatic communion between English and Chinese and offers some suggestions about how to improve their communications. For example, one should show respect to the usage of phatic communion in others’ countries and shouldn’t ask private questions of others, etc. As mentioned above, the usage of phatic communion shares a close relationship of nation’s culture. Only by understanding how to handle and apply the phatic communion from the respect of culture properly can one improve the cross-cultural communications.
Key words: phatic communion; communication; culture
Analysis on the Phatic Communion Between Chinese and English
Contents
摘 要 i
Abstract ii
I. Introduction 1
II. The Background of the Phatic Communion 2
2.1 Definition and Origin of the Phatic Communion 2
2.2 Functions of the Phatic Communion 4
2.3 Purposes of the Phatic Communion 4
2.4 Basic Forms of the Phatic Communion 5
2.4.1 The Style of Greeting 5
2.4.2 The Style of the Inquisitorial 6
2.4.3 The Style of the Comment 6
2.4.4 The Style of the Retrospective 7
Ⅲ. Comparison Between Chinese and English Phatic Communion 8
3.1 The Phatic Communion in China 8
3.2 The Phatic Communion in Britain 8
3.3 Differences of Phatic Communion in a Politeness Theory 9
IV. Different Translation of Phatic Communion 10
4.1 The Influence Brought by Ways of Life 10
4.2 Influence Brought by Different Cognitive Style 11
4.3 The Influence Brought by Different Values 12
4.4 The Translation of Phatic Communion 13
V. Conclusion 15
Bibliography 17
Acknowledgements 18
I. Introduction
As the old saying goes, language is the primary medium to transmit a culture’s beliefs, values, norms and worldview. Phatic communion is an auxiliary language in social engagement. It can shorten the distance between communicators and maintain a good personal relationship with others. It is the real presentation of social life and culture. The linguist put forward the phatic communion in 1923. He found out that the communication among different persons not only provides some information but also acquires some information. On the other hand, some types of communications create a good atmosphere or maintain a social contact. As for this, it is just a kind of behavior. The meaning of the language comes from the atmosphere of social communication.