The Salutation Of The Communicative Functions And Cultural Connotation

Salutation plays a very important role in human relationships. At first, salutation could express information in the first time;second, the social culture, attitude and pragmatic factors which are contained in salutation system,can reveal the relationship between language and culture more thoroughly. So, only after multidimensional and comprehensive analysis and investigation, plus the complete understanding of the essence, salutation could be used correctly and properlyThe first part of this text is the introduction. In this part, the definition of salutation would be stated deeply and the difference and connection between salutation and address term would be pointed out. Then, the writer defined that the research object of this paper—the call of foreigner, belongs to the category of salutation. The last part of introduction is the related study.The second part is the synchronic study of salutation. Chinese tribes system period and the period of reform and opening are taken. Analysis of the period of reform and opening up is mainly by case analysis way. The writer try to keep some of the real life example and survey research and investigation, and analyze the causes and put forward countermeasures.The third part is the diachronic study of salutation. By the statistics of the salutation for foreigner in some literature works or historical works, the writer comb to the development of salutation for foreigner, and by doing this,comb to the psychological change of Chinese people.In the forth part, based on the synchronic and diachronic study of salutation for foreigners, the psychology of Hans nationality could be summarized as inferiority and self-esteem as well as Chinese unique double hierarchy.The last part of the text expounded the importance of salutation in the communication including:clear the object, express the speaker’s emotional attitude and designate the speakers values. The conclusion is given in the ending:because of the culture sign and culture guidance function of salutation, more attention should be paid on salutation in its usage in order to use it correctly and properly and reduce cross-culture misunderstandings.