Study of Chinese College Students' Cross-cultural Pragmatic Failure

DOI

10.2991/icemeet-16.2017.34How to use a DOI?

Keywords

cross-cultural pragmatic failure; communicative competence; cross-cultural communication.

Abstract

Pragmatic failure is a frequently-discussed concept in linguistic research and English as foreign language teaching (EFLT). Learning a language means obtaining the ability of appropriately choosing linguistic forms for a specific context, or of correctly using the language in social interaction. Based on the notion of communicative competence and its significance role as the ultimate goal of EFL, this study investigates the pragmatic failure of 150 non-English majors in Jilin Agricultural University, and then makes a contrast analysis with the result got by He Ziran 30 years ago.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sheng'ai Li
AU  - Xu Tan
AU  - Mingming Fu
PY  - 2017/01
DA  - 2017/01
TI  - Study of Chinese College Students' Cross-cultural Pragmatic Failure
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 2nd International Conference on Economics, Management Engineering and Education Technology (ICEMEET 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 170
EP  - 173
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icemeet-16.2017.34
DO  - 10.2991/icemeet-16.2017.34
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