Research on Face Perception Differences between Chinese and Western Culture through Analysis of the Movie Saving Face
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DOI: 10.23977/ieesasm.2019.548
Corresponding Author
Tian Miao
ABSTRACT
As a specialty of china, face culture has ingrained in the ideology of Chinese people for a long time. We should take the question how to save our and others’ face into consideration in intercultural communication. As a cultural phenomenon, face perception has a great influence on interpersonal relationship, which means we should select polite manner to communicate so as to maintain harmonious social relationship. In the course of communication, however, it is usually very hard for both sides to comprehend mutual face because of different thinking mode, communicative mode, cultural background, and geographical environment, which give rise to a stressful condition between speakers and hearers, and even bring about communicative difficulties among people from different cultures. It is an urgent task to settle this matter in cultural exchanges. By contrasting the differences between Chinese and western face perception, this paper tries to figure out the major reasons which result in the differences, so as to improve the mutual understanding between Chinese and western culture, further to help us to avoid pragmatic errors during the process of intercultural communication, and ultimately to promote people’s inter- cultural communication competence.
KEYWORDS
Movie Saving Face, Face Perception Differences, Chinese and Western Culture