Author(s)

Xuqing Shi

Corresponding Author

Xuqing Shi

ABSTRACT

Pragmatic failures occur when participants fail to effectively or correctly achieve the specific purpose, or when the hearer fail to realize the intention of the speaker’ s utterance in some certain context situation. Being an indispensable part of pragmatics, pragmatic failures shall be taken seriously to realize the properly use of language, which quite matters for L2 learners. This thesis tries to analyzes three types of typical pragmatic failures based on analysis of pragma-linguistic failure and socio-pragmatic failure and propose suggestions for L2 learners to deal with pragmatic failures, with eventually coming to the conclusion that competence to deal with pragmatic failures show its crucial role and necessity in cross-cultural communication, with an increasing large number of participants involves in bilingual and multilingual context situations.

KEYWORDS

Pragma-linguistic failure, Socio-pragmatic failure, Cross-cultural communication