中西方恭维语差异

1、中西方恭维语差异:Definition of complimentsIn the language and culture that Chinese and western people, compliment is one of the most common language for daily use, it plays a greeting, encourage, acknowledgements, open the topic and alleviate the contradiction etc.So compliments are shared by English and Ch

2、inese culture formulaic speech act, known as the verbal gift, social lubricantHowever, influenced by their social psychology, cultural orientation, values and other factors, the topic, compliment structure model, response strategy aspects of a national culture deeply, to reflect the cultural charact

3、eristics of different nations.NO.2:the differences between Chinese and Western compliments(a), differences in compliments function: According to the investigation and statistics of Hao Bert, Holmes and Wolfson, the main function of compliments in western culture: 1) appreciated; 2) is due to peoples

4、 social status and role relationship is not fixed, especially women, use compliments to coordinate the relationship between the two sides of communication of consistency, which put it as a compliment a harmonious social relations, promote feelings or friendship each other means. According to Jia Yux

5、in (1997) survey, the main Chinese compliments in function: 1) to make each other feel good;2) appreciation; 3) by others(b), the difference of the topic compliment: Compliment is a positive politeness strategy, positive evaluation of some superiority over others is carried out, the vast majority of

6、 compliment topic involving several appearance, behavior, ability, achievements and property and so on, especially to compliment others appearance and achievements for the worst.1:Compliment others in appearanceIn Western cultures, men praise female body appearance, dress, etc., can be said to be ve

7、ry common thing, but, in Chinese traditional culture is the basic taboo.In Chinese, when male compliment womens appearance, may be regarded as a rude and suffered a dig, is lady-killer, rogue; praise friends wife could also be considered to have an ulterior motive, because Chinese believes in friend

8、s wife will not be bullied, men and women are different.The reason: Americans love change, difference, and emphasized the China of traditional culture is the convergence.2:Compliment others in abilityIn western culture, involving others compliment is very serious judgment, and only those who have th

9、e ability, higher social status are qualified to do so, so, this kind of compliment usually appear to compliment the subordinates in the superior, to maintain the superior subordinate relationship. In Chinese opposite. This kind of phenomenon and our traditional culture others oriented collectivism

10、and relation orientation is inseparable.c), the difference formIn western culture, communication is the core of self - centered communicative format, which leads to the Western compliments in the first person appear more frequently than eastern compliments.In China culture, on the contrary is other

11、centred communication mode, this is the third person in the western discourse frequency lower than the direct cause of the Oriental discourse.In addition, there are a lot of invisible compliments in China culture, the speakers praise is not obvious in language itself, is flattery only according to t

12、he specific context and background knowledge to understand its praise. In contrast, western culture highly stylized compliments to facilitate exchanges double reverse unmistakably coordinate their consistency(d), differences in compliment response modeResponse strategy for compliments, the differenc

13、es between Chinese and Western culture is very obvious:In western culture, compliment response is often accept, meet, to Thank you with the assent to compliment the views, and to express my gratitude, one is sure of your ability, on the other hand is to others appreciation ability approval. Such as: A: You look smart in this sweater. B: Thank you!In Chinese culture by admirers, used to deny or self