Chinese Characters

We can infer the culture features from Chinese conversational style. In the ancient China, people usually talk with each other in the indirect way. People weren’t express their meaning undecoratedly. For example, if person wanted to prevent his friends or children from doing something, he would tell them a fable in which hinted a moralism. Then let his friend or children to aware by themselves and decide whether to do or not. Myron W. Lusting, in his book “Intercultural Competence: Interpersonal Communication Across Cultures”, wrote that “Japanese, Chinese, and Indian cultures all emphasize the social role or the interpersonal community in which a particular person is embedded” (1996, P.234). It’s sure that in China the status can effects the conversation. If grandparents are talking to their grandchildren, grandchildren should be mo

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Furthermore, many Chinese prefer explain things succinctly. Under those conditions, people prefer writing letters to e-mail or make a phone call. In Classical Chinese, the sentence constitutions are much more succinct. Compare to the Modern Chinese, members of the sentence also different and sometimes even upside down. Even in this modern world, many Chinese are using it to express their feelings. These three aspects can show the customs and social roles of Chinese language. The phenomenon will be more obvious, if the gap of the positions between speaker and listener is wider. For instance, a large number of men like using this way to say love to women. These ancient ways are still being used in Chinese communication now. The first difference is the sentence structures between Classical and Modern Chinese. Secondly, a lot of Chinese writers dislike giving many clarifications of their points. Though the reading the books that wrote in the old fashion. First of all, most of Chinese are still keep using the old way that people write letters to each other for communication. Many friends write to each other in order to keep in touch. Thus, in order to extract the correct message…the reader has to rely heavily on inference based on his/her knowledge of the world and the information provided by the earlier clauses of the paragraph” (Writing Across Languages and Cultures, 1988).

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