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

Through Chinese conversational convention, the communicational processes and the Chinese syntax and dialects, we can get to know some features in Chinese language that produced by cultural preferences. These three aspects can show the customs and social roles of Chinese language. It's easy to see that cultures affect the language of a nation heavily. The time also can inspect the language manners and select the asset that people have been using for several generations.

re polite and listen carefully. They should not interrupt when their grandparents are speaking, and they should not contradict directly even though they disagree with their grandpa or grandma's opinion. The conversational situation, which takes place between boss and employee, is the same. The phenomenon will be more obvious, if the gap of the positions between speaker and listener is wider. Furthermore, many Chinese prefer explain things succinctly. People usually give necessary information in their expressivenesses. Especially for the men, they often describe the affairs more precisely. The style of conversation shows a part of Chinese culture.

Cultures produced many differences in Chinese grammar. The first difference is the sentence structures between Classical and Modern Chinese. In Classical Chinese, the sentence constitutions are much more succinct. For example, maybe we should use 3 or 4 words together to call one ob

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