图式知识与跨文化交际中的语篇连贯

人们对语篇的连贯理解有赖于大脑中的图式知识。生活在不同文化语境中的人们具有不同的图式知识。因此,在跨文化交际中,英语学习者在理解语篇或者生产英语语篇时会产生许多困难。英语学习者在学习过程中应该不断丰富图式知识,发现中英语言文化差异,以达到交际目的。

Schematic Knowledge and Textual Coherence in Cross-cultural Communication

People's coherent comprehension of discourse depends on the schematic knowledge in their mind.People living in different cultural contexts have different schematic knowledge.Therefore,English learners may have difficulty in reading or producing English discourse.They should continuously enrich their schematic knowledge and find out the differences in language and culture between Chinese and English,hence achieving the communicative goals.