一、前言随着对外交往的日渐频繁,跨文化交际问题越来越引起人们的关注。从跨文化交际学科整体情况看,西方研究学者从十九世纪50年代末就开始着手研究,其中对语用失误的研究较早较多的是英国的J.Thomas。近年来,国内学者也开始重视对这一课题的研究,如邓炎昌、刘润清,何自然、胡文仲等,并有一些研究成果问世。其研究内容主要包含:语言与文化的关系:言语行为与文 I. Introduction With the increasing frequency of foreign exchanges, cross-cultural communication issues have drawn increasing attention. As far as the overall situation of intercultural communication is concerned, western researchers started to study from the late 1950s. Among them, the study of pragmatic failure earlier was J. Thomas in Britain. In recent years, domestic scholars have begun to attach importance to the study of this subject, such as Deng Yanchang, Liu Runqing, He Zuran, Hu Wenzhong, etc., and some research results are available. The main contents of his research include: the relationship between language and culture: speech acts and texts