Pragmatic culture contrast between English-Chinese taboos

Taboo is a very common social and cultural phenomenon.Ithas great cultural function.Research and application concerning taboo is closely related to target objects,context,time,culture,nationality and psychological factors as well,because it is a very significant topic in cross-cultural communication.This paper tries to contrast the pragmatic strategies between Chinese and English taboos and has a preliminary discussion on taboos in cross-cultural communication.