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fact, according to English habits, they prefer others to reply in a straightforward way rather than in a modest way. If in the latter way, the English are necessarily confused and suspect about their judgements. On privacyFor a majority of English people, if one asks such questions, as: “ how old are you?” “How much do you make?” “ Are you married?” to strangers, he may be looked as a rude and impolite person. English native speaker prefer to talk about weather or pliment the dress rather than age, ine, religions, and such like. However, in China, that is totally different. Suppose that a Chinese and an English native speaker meets for the first time, if the Chinese asks such questions, no matter what purposes he or she may have, it will possible anger the other.What’s more, if English native speaker hear: “you are fat,” or “you are so thin,” they must feel embarrassed and do not know how to reply. On this issue, Chinese people are supposed to pay attention to ask the questions they will ask, in case that the unexpected misunderstanding will be caused. On faceconceptAmong Eastern cultures, the important process of interpersonal munication is facesaving. It is a euphemism during the process of munication, which can not make themselves or others lose face. Exchanges between the Chinese people will be very subtle, in order to avoid the involvement of each other and themselves in an awkward position, if one trys to refuse the request or oppose opinions of others, he will find some excuse to conceal his disagreement, and be more subtle to say I39。s culture, language symbols of a nation provide a rich means of expression. Therefore, the vocabulary of a language system, such as words, idioms and sentences are inevitable with cultural connotations. They record a nation39。 and the nonmaterial part refers to intangible items like language, valuse, nom, customs, religions and laws. Both of them play an important role in shaping people’s behaviors. In this thesis, the writer will mainly focus on the nonmaterial ponents of culture, and illustrate in details from the aspects of language, value, custom and thinking mode etc. The cultural differences between Chinese and English Chinese culture and English cultureIn Chinese culture, in China’s feudal history of two thousand years, confucianism always occupy the entrenched and deeprooted dominance, which has a profound and farreaching impact on Chinese society. Chinese people since ancient times regard selfdeprecatory thoughts as a classic attitude of life. People often are proud of being humble and against the excessively selfrevealing. Therefore, Chinese culture reflects the characteristics of group。 correctly learn and use EnglishI. IntroductionWith the economic globalization, and the frequent munication of China with the rest of world, it is being increasingly evident that Chinese people are deficient in English. It is really a problem for Chinese people, because tons of vocabularies and solid knowledge of grammars never bring them flexibility along with effectiveness。這篇文章主要通過(guò)分析中英文化差異對(duì)中國(guó)人使用英語(yǔ)所造成的負(fù)面影響來(lái)探索怎樣消除負(fù)面影響,使中國(guó)人正確的學(xué)習(xí)和使用英語(yǔ)進(jìn)行交流。然而,事實(shí)上, 大多數(shù)中國(guó)人在英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)上都很費(fèi)力,因此他們的英語(yǔ)水平也相對(duì)較低。An analysis on the Effects of the Cultural Differences between Chinese and English on the English Use of ChineseA Thesis Presented to theFaculty of Binhai School of Foreign Affairs Tianjin Foreign Studies UniversityIn Partial Fulfillmentof the Requirements for the Degree Bachelor of ArtsBy Deng Xue May,2011ContentsAbstract (in Chinese) ………………..…………………………………………..IAbstract (in English) …………………………………………………………....III. Introduction …………………………………………………………………...1II. Literature review...………………………………………………….…….......1 A brief introduction to culture.....................................................................................1 The cultural differences between Chinese and English ……………………...............2 Chinese culture and English culture………………………………………………….2 The differences between the two cultures…………………………………………….3 In value concept ……………………........................................................3 In thinking mode …………………….....................................................4 In code of conduct ……………………..................................................4 The relationship between culture and language…......................................................5III. The negative effects of the cultural differences between Chinese and English on the English use of Chinese. ……………………………………...............6 On the correct linguistic use of EnglishChinglish………………………………….6 Definition of Chinglish……………………………………………………………….6 The manifestations of Chinglish……………………………………………………..7 On the correct municative use of English…………………………………...9 On appellation……………………………………………………………………..9 On praise………………………………………………………………………….9 On privacy……………………………………………………………………….10 On faceconcept………………………………………………………………...10IV. How to eliminate the negative effects to correctly use English……………11 To have the knowledge and understanding of English culture…………………….11 To increase English input by various media, absorption and experience of English culture………………………………………………………………………………12 To learn English social etiquette and customs…………………………………… .13 To figure out the gesture…………………………………………………………...13V. Conclusion…………………………………………………………………..13References……………………………………………………………………...15