With the language researches going advanced, the shortcomings of cognitive linguistics (CL) have gradually emerged. Based on this, Chinese scholar Wang Yin combined theories of language philosophy, cognitive linguistics, etc. to construct Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics (ECL). He revised and localized the foreign Conceptual Blending Theory (CBT) to the theory of Embodied-Cognitive Blending (ECB). The ECB has a batter interpretation. It explains language-related problems from the perspective of the processing and blending of “body experience” and “cognition”, which is quite helpful to the research in the fields of Chinese and foreign literature interpretation, cognitive construction analysis, cognitive construal process, syntactic and pragmatic phenomenon research, discourse analysis, foreign language teaching, etc. In this paper, the author intends to analyze pragmatic failure in cross-cultural communication from the perspective of the ECB, then draws implications to foreign language teaching based on the ECB to help foreign language learners reduce pragmatic failures in cross-cultural communication.

Huang Zijian, Kong Linglin. The Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Failure and the Implications of Foreign Language Teaching Based on Embodied-Cognitive Blending. Frontiers in Educational Research (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 24: 87-92. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2023.062415.

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