《白象似的群山》是海明威的一个短小的故事。这篇短文的一个特点是它主要是由男主人公和女主人公的几段对话组成。他们讨论是否要去做流产手术的过程是他们交际失败的过程。本文基于拉可夫和坦能关于两性语言差异的理论,聚焦于交际目的、交际内容、交际风格的差异分析他们跨性别交际失误的原因。 “White elephant-like mountains” is a short story of Hemingway. A special feature of this essay is that it consists mainly of several conversations between the hero and the heroine. Their discussion of whether or not to go to abortion is a failure of their communication process. Based on the theory of gender differences between Lakoff and Tanneng, this paper focuses on the communicative purpose, communicative content and communicative style differences to analyze the causes of transnational communicative errors.