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- Title: Cultural Differences in Compliments/ Differences Culturelles Dans Les Compliments (Report)
- Author : Canadian Social Science
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 195 KB
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1. INTRODUCTION When people with different culture communicate with each other, they will inevitably meet with some cultural differences. This paper mainly discusses one aspect of these cultural differences--praise and compliments. Firstly, it states the relationship between culture and language. There are various cultures in the world, if people use a foreign language without knowing the culture, they will misunderstand each other in communication. Therefore while learning foreign language, people should also learn the relative cultures. Secondly, some cultural differences between China and western countries will be analyzed. Such as greetings, form of address, politeness and social dos and don'ts shape, appreciation and praise and compliments. Then it discusses that praise and compliments in intercultural communication are different expressions: social functions, the sentence patterns of praise language, usage modes and concerned topics, the ways to respond, as well as the social causes of these cultural differences. Thirdly, it discusses that people should know foreign culture when communicating with foreigners.