A Study of Multicultural Pragmatic Competence from the Perspective of English as a Lingua Franca

摘要

Today's globalization and multicultural environment have aroused people's reconsideration toward traditional pragmatic competence. This paper reviewed the birth of Intercultural Pragmatics, and then discussed the evolution of connotation of pragmatic ability and its enlightenment to foreign language teaching in China, aiming at making foreign language teaching of colleges and universities meet the need of intercultural communication in increasingly complex and multivariate globalization environment.