摘要
 
随着全球化的快速发展，国与国之间的交流日益增多。不同的国家有着自己的文化背景，因此在跨文化交流中，极易由于文化习惯不同而产生不必要的误解和语言冲突。而文化冲突常常会在跨文化交流中引起尴尬场面，导致人际关系紧张。接待行为在跨文化交际中是十分重要和必须的礼仪行为。而接待语言恰当与否更可能会直接影响到交流的进行甚至会影响后续合作交流的发展。不同文化背景下的接待语言有各自的特点。该论文主要通过对中英接待语言的文化对比，来阐述文化与接待语言的关系以及文化对接待语言的影响。

关键词：接待语言；文化；对比；影响

Abstract

With the fast development of globalization, there are more and more intercultural communications among nations. Misunderstandings are easily caused by ignorance of cultural differences during the communications among nations from different cultural backgrounds. Cultural differences can even cause embarrassment and interpersonal tension. Reception is distinctly common and important in etiquette behavior during the intercultural communication, and so is the reception language. Proper reception language can leave a pleasant impression to the guests. It can be the good start of the communication or cooperation. On the other hand, the inappropriate reception language might lead the communication to the end. Reception language from different culture has its own features. There are many aspects need to be took care of. This thesis pays more attention to the intercultural comparison of reception language between Chinese and English.

Key words:  reception language; cultural differences; impact; comparison

1.    Introduction
With the development of globalization, there are more and more intercultural communications among nations and states. Current world is a melting pot, in which people with different backgrounds goes closer and closer, and different cultures are also melted and mixed together. Under the push of global communications of economy and politics, reception activity plays an important part in the cross-culture communications.
English is widely used in the intercultural activities as international language. However, in the actual communication, negligence and ignorance can easily lead to a collision of cultures and language because of different believes and habits in different cultural backgrounds. To avoid the unpleasant result in intercultural communication, the differences of language between different cultures should be paid attention to in communication, especially in reception language which is presented through words usage.