A Contrastive Study of English and Chinese Taboos in the Context of Intercultural Communication开题报告

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1. 研究目的与意义

Nowadays, with the advancement of globalization, interactions between different countries have been increasingly intensified, which produce new problems and challenges in intercultural communication. Linguistic taboos exist universally in almost all languages. As language is the carrier of culture and different countries have different cultures, taboo words are used differently thereupon. Pragmatic failure occurs when people misuse taboos in intercultural communication. Therefore, it is necessary to identify its similarities and differences of taboos in different cultures so that effective strategies can be formulated to deal with the challenges. Through the study of the linguistic taboos in Chinese and English, this thesis attempts to highlight the similarities and differneces of social behaviors in these two cultures. In doing so, it aims to achieve a deeper understanding of the complex aspects of social and intercultural communication, provide people with effective strategies to address the problem of linguistic taboos and promote people''s communicative competence to ahcieve successful communication.

2. 研究内容和预期目标

This thesis will make a contrastive study of English and Chinese taboos in the context of intercultural communication to analyze the different social behaviors in these two cultures.

Itaims to answer such questions as what is the relationship between culture, language and taboos ? what are the similarities and differences between Chinese and English Taboos? And what strategies can we useto avoid the misuse of taboos in intercultural communication and to promote people''s communicative competence?

Outline

Chapter 1 Introduction

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3. 国内外研究现状

The word ' Taboo'can date back to 1777. An English man, named James Cook, found a strange phenomenon on Tonga Island of the southern Pacific Ocean: some words are notallowed to be used, which belong to the scope of 'tabu' ,meaning#8220;divine#8221; and #8220;untouchable#8221; by the local people. Cook introduced 'tabu' into English and it became 'taboo'. As a special and important part of culture and language, taboo has already attracted people's attention for a long time, thus researches about it has been carried out by lots of scholars in various fields all around the world. The contributions to taboo in early time were relevant to anthropology, sociology and psychology. Among the most important researches on the topic were Totem and Taboo (1913) by Sigmund Freud, who provides the most ingenious explanation for the apparently irrational nature of taboo, postulating that they are generated by emotional ambivalence and in effect represent forbidden actions for which there nevertheless exists a strong unconscious inclination. And Franz Baermann Steiner 's Taboo, Truth and Religion (1967) does the most comprehensive work by providing the full history of the origin of the word taboo, its cognates and meanings in Polynesia, its significance and functions in Polynesian religion, and its relationship to anthropological and psychological theories.

In China, this topic is more strictly forbidden due to the deep influence of feudalist ideology. Studies in this area are maybe later and fewer than those in the West. Chen Yuan#8217;s Sociolinguistics (1982), a pioneer monograph of this kind, is the earliest literature that provides a comprehensive analysis of linguistic taboo. Qu Yanbin''s Chinese Folk Linguistics (1992) discusses taboo in Chinese from the point of the view of folklore. Due to its starting late and relatively small number of domestic study from the perspective of intercultural communicaiton, the study and research on linguistic taboos still needs to be further strengthened and expanded.

4. 计划与进度安排

1. In the first stage (Nov.1st-Nov.30th): Do research and collect related data, then determine the thesis.

2. In the second stage (Dec.1st-Dec.30th): Complete the opening report.

3.In the third stage(Apr.1st-Apr.10th): Complete the first draft of the writing.

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5. 参考文献

[1]Hu Wenzhong. Culture and Communication [M]. Beijing Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. 1988.

[2] Liu Nana. A Comparative study of English and Chinese Taboos in the Context of Intercultural Communication [M]. 2009.

[3]Sigmund Freud. The Origins of Religions; Totem and Taboo[M]. 1985.

[4] Rawson Hugh. 1981. A dictionary of Euphemism and Other Doubletalk. NewYork: Grown.

[5]Trudgil Peter. 1974. Sociolinguistics: An Introduction. Harmonds Worth:Penguin.

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