英汉问候语的文化语用阐释

问候语是人类交际中普遍使用的语言现象.这种看似简单、且已模式化了的言语交际形式富有深刻的社会文化内涵,具有历史文化特性.同时这种交际形式的特殊性在于,其字面意义远不及其表达的情感意义和社会规约意义重要.文章在回顾国内外对问候语的社会文化阐释的基础上,从共性角度,探讨了英汉问候语的当代变迁和问候语的语用功能,并在最后重点探讨问候语的礼貌等级及其制约因素的关系,认为人们使用不同礼貌等级的问候语是受到社会因素、环境因素以及交谈者的心理因素的制约.

Cultural-pragmatic Interpretations of Greetings in English and Chinese

Greeting is a common language phenomenon in human communication.Greetings,which are seemingly simple and modelled verbal forms,are filled with rich socio-cultural implications,and are society-specific and history-specific;the particularity of this kind of verbal forms lies in that the conventional and emotional meanings are more important than the literal meanings.This paper,based on the review of the socio-cultural interpretations of greetings home and abroad,explores the general characters of English and ...