Study On Pragmeme Of Nonverbal Behaviors In Cross-cultural Communicative Context

With the rapid development of science and technology, the world is increasingly becoming a global village. Cultural interflow and convergence are powerful trends in human communication. Cross-cultural communication is one of the most important roles in human activities and the basis of all human contact. The opportunities of communicating with an increasing number of people from different countries and different cultures are more and more frequent for the Chinese. Nonverbal misinterpretation, however, is a serious barrier to intercultural communication; furthermore, it is to some extent regarded as an unacceptable and unforgivable behavior. Since Nonverbal behavior is an indispensable tool that accompanies verbal communication to transmit information and reveal feelings and attitudes, it is important to pay much attention to the nonverbal behavior in cross-cultural communication. Moreover, Jocob L. Mey emphasized that nonverbal act as one of the pragmeme plays an important part in a situated pragmatic act. This thesis analyzes pragmatic support to the nonverbal act in communication, and demonstrates"nonverbal acts—one important pragmeme"in the inference of speaker's meaning in cross-cultural communication. Related aspects of pragmatic analysis can underline the application and interpretation of nonverbal communication, and this can be cross-culturally applied in the inference of speaker's meaning in cross-cultural communication. And in this thesis, the author makes explicit the common thread which unifies studies belonging to heterogeneous traditions—statistic analysis, cognitive liguistics, memetics and anthropogical analysis by combining those considerations together and finally turning to explicit theoretical constructions of the important study of nonverbal pragmeme in cross-cultural communicative context. This research on the nonverbal communication from the perspective of pragmatics combined with different aspects of scientific analysis is a new try. Therefore, we can profoundly realize the function and significance of nonverbal cue in the speaker's inference in cross-cultural communication, and make effort to explore the area of nonverbal communicative competence in cross-cultural communication.