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语言社会与文化

语言社会与文化

现代英语语言学理论渭南师范学院崔建斌ModernEnglishLinguisticsStudiesL7语言社会与文化Language,CultureandSocietyWeinanTeachersUniversity

现代英语语言学理论渭南师范学院崔建斌参加英语语言学的研讨！

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现代英语语言学理论LanguageandCulture渭南师范学院崔建斌SWHInterculturalCommunicationCultureinELTLanguageandSocietyExercises

现代英语语言学理论1.LanguageandCulture渭南师范学院崔建斌Languageisanessentialandimportantpartofagivencultureandthattheimpactofcultureuponagivenlanguageissomethingintrinsicandindispensable.Studyingtherelationshipoflanguageandcultureinasocialsituationcouldprovidelearnersadifferentperspectivetothestudyoflanguageintermsofsomenewtendenciesanddevelopmentsinthefieldofsociolinguistics.

现代英语语言学理论1.LanguageandCulture1.1WhatisCulture?

渭南师范学院崔建斌Culture,lexically,iscultivationofthesoil,production,development,orimprovementofaparticularplant,animal,commodity.Itistheideas,customs,skills,arts,etcofagivenpeopleinagivenperiod;civilization.Linguistically,itmeansthetotalwayoflifeofapeople,includingthepatternsofbelief,customs,objects,institutions,techniques,andlanguagethatcharacterizesthelifeofthehumancommunity.Inanarrowsense,itrefertolocalorspecificpractice,beliefsorcustoms,forexample,folkculture,foodculture.

现代英语语言学理论渭南师范学院崔建斌1.LanguageandCulture1.1WhatisCulture?

Twotypesofculture:

materialandspiritual.Thematerialculturesuggeststheconcrete,substantialandobservable,whilemostofspiritualculturearetheproductsofmind（ideologies,beliefs,valuesandconceptsoftimeandspace）isabstract,ambiguous,andhidden.EugeneNida,awell-knownlinguistandatranslationtheorist,believestherearefivetypesofsubculture:

ecologicalculture,linguisticculture,religiousculture,materialcultureandsocialculture.

现代英语语言学理论渭南师范学院崔建斌1.LanguageandCulture1.2RelationBetweenLanguageandCultureIthasbecomeaxiomatictostatethatthereexistsacloserelationshipbetweenLanguageandculture.Languageisrelatedtocognition,andcognitionisrelatedtotheculturalsetting.

现代英语语言学理论1.LanguageandCulture渭南师范学院崔建斌1.2RelationBetweenLanguageandCultureMoreevidencecanbegatheredtosubstantiatethisclaimifwehaveabriefsurveyofwhathashappenedinthefieldoflinguisticsoverthepastcentury.

现代英语语言学理论1.LanguageandCulture渭南师范学院崔建斌1.2RelationBetweenLanguageandCultureSincethebeginningofthe18thcentury,thelinguisticinquiryofLanguagehasbeeneithercomparativeandhistoricalorstructuralandformalizedinnature,somechange,however,wasobservedatthestartofthe20thcentury:

ANANTHROPOLOGICALORIENTATIONinthestudyofLanguagewasdevelopedbothinEnglandandinNorthAmerica.WhatcharacterizedthisnewtraditionwasitsstudyofLanguageinasocioculturalcontext.

现代英语语言学理论1.LanguageandCulture渭南师范学院崔建斌1.2RelationBetweenLanguageandCultureAlotofimportantandcreativeworkhasbeendoneintheresearchoftherelationshipbetweenLanguageandculture.ThepioneersinEngland:

BronislawMalinowskiandJohnP.Firth.TherepresentativesinNorthAmerica:

FranzBoas,EdwardSapir,andBenjaminLeeWhorf

现代英语语言学理论渭南师范学院崔建斌2.Sapir-WhorfHypothesis（SWH）Hypothesis:

EdwardSapireandBenjaminWhorf,proclaimedthatthestructureofthelanguagepeoplehabituallyuseinfluencesthewaystheythinkandbelieve.Languagewillmouldourviewoftheworld.ThestrongversionofthetheoryemphasesthedecisiveroleofLanguageastheshaperofourthinkingpatterns.TheweakversionofthishypothesissuggeststhatthereisacorrelationbetweenLanguage,culture,andthought,butthecross-culturaldifferencesthusproducedinourwaysofthinkingarerelative,ratherthancategorical.

现代英语语言学理论渭南师范学院崔建斌2.Sapir-WhorfHypothesis（SWH）Insights:

1.Thereisnowadaysarecognitionthatlanguage,ascode,reflectsculturalpreoccupationsandconstrainsthewaypeoplethink.2.Contextisimportantincomprehendingthemeaningencodedinthelanguage.

现代英语语言学理论渭南师范学院崔建斌3.InterculturalCommunication（IC）InterculturalCommunication（IC）iscommunicationbetweenpeoplewhosecultureperceptionsandsymbolssystemsaredistinctenoughtoalterthecommunicationevent.Itisfrequentlyusedtorefertocommunicationbetweenpeoplefromdifferentcultures,whichimpliesacomparisonbetweencultures.

现代英语语言学理论渭南师范学院崔建斌3.InterculturalCommunication（IC）Itcentersonsignificantdifferencesregardingsocialrelationsandconceptofuniversefromdifferentperspectivessuchaslanguage,food,dress,attitudetowardtime,,workhabits,socialbehaviorthatcancausefrustrationincommunicationandcontacts.Someillustrationsoftheculturaldifferencesinlanguageusewhichwemayoftencomeacrossindailylife.

现代英语语言学理论渭南师范学院崔建斌3.InterculturalCommunication（IC）AddressingtermsGreetingsThanksan