語言與溝通

Abstract

Abstract This article aims to compare the three stories: Lucy Honig’s English as a Second Language, Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants, and Danny Santiago’s The Somebody. In these stories, the type of communication and the effectiveness of language used to communicate are distinctive. This report respectively discusses the theme of language and communication in the three short stories and focuses on the different levels of effectiveness in their communication. This article includes five paragraphs. The first paragraph briefly introduces the aim of this article, and the second to fourth paragraph are different examples of communications, demonstrating the distinctive level of effectiveness. Finally, the report ends by concluding that communications can be established effectively no matter the language is being spoken well or not.

摘要 本文旨在比較三個故事:（English as a Second Language, 1990）、（Hills Like White Elephants, 1927）、（The Somebody, 1970）中，關於語言與溝通的部分。透過如此比較，我們可以從文章中看出兩種不同形式的溝通方式，並且從中探討在使用不同語言溝通的情況下是否會影響溝通之效率。本文共分成五個段落，第一段簡述語言與溝通的定義；第二段到第四段則依序舉例三個故事中角色們之間所使用的語言以及對話內容，並剖析如此情況下角色們所使用的為何種溝通方法以及語言相同相異是否影響溝通效率；最後一段則是總結，透過比較這三篇故事我們能比較出兩種不同的溝通方式，也證實出語言的流暢度並不是影響溝通效率的主要原因。