General Research on Intercultural Facework Competence of Non-English Major Postgraduates

摘要

This paper examines different intercultural facework competence in various intercultural conflicts between English major and non-English major postgraduates based on S.TingToomey’s face-negotiation theory. Data were collected by questionnaire called DCT and analyzed with Mean Comparison and ANOVA. The results show that（1） the facework competence of non-English major postgraduate students is lower than English major students in genera;（2） gender difference has been found to be a significant factor.