Chinese and English Kinship Terms英语毕业论文

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1、ChineseandEnglishKinshipTermsThesisstatement：ThispaperisintendedtomakeacomparisonbetweenChineseandEnglishkinshipsystemstoseetheirdifferencesandsimilarities,andatentativeexplanationisgiventothedifferencesofthesetwosystemsfromtheaspectofcultureastoillustratethecommunicativefunct

2、ionstheyplayintheirownsociety．Outline：1.Introduction2.ComparisonbetweenChineseandEnglishkinshipterms2.1Similarities2.2Differences3.CulturalconnotationofChineseandEnglishkinshipterms3.1CulturalconnotationofChinesekinshipterms3.1.1ThebackgroundofChineseeconomyandsociety3.1.2Thef

3、amilyrelationshipbasedonmarrigeandblood3.2CulturalconnotationofEnglishkinshipterms3.2.1ThedevelopmentofWesternculture3.2.2ThecharacterofBritishpeople3.2.3ThestructureofWesternfamily4.ConclusionWorkscitedChineseandEnglishKinshipTerms1.Introduction:Whenitcomestothelanguage.Peopl

4、ecan’thelpthinkingoftheculture.Similarly,whenitcomestotheculture.Peoplewillconnectitwithlanguage.Therearemanydifferentversionsaboutthedefinitionoflanguageallthetime.NowtheChineselanguageacademiccircleswidelybelievethatlanguageisasystemofarbitraryvocalsymbolsusedforhumancommuni

5、cation.Conceptofcultureisverywidescope.Theentirehumancivilizationincludesfood,architecture,art,religion,customs,ideasandlanguageetcthatbelongtothecategoryofculture.Inthispaper,I'dliketomakeacomparisonbetweenChineseandEnglishkinshipsystemstoseetheirdifferencesandsimilarities,an

6、dthenI'lltrytogiveatentativeexplanationtothedifferencesofthesetwosystemsfromtheaspectofculture．Fromthecomparison,maybewecanknowthecommunicativefunctionstheyplayintheirownsociety.2.ComparisonbetweenChineseandEnglishkinshiptermsAsweknow,sincethedifferentcultureandphilosophicalba

7、sis.ChinaandWesterncountrieshavedifferentinterpretationsontheinterpersonalrelationshipsystems.InChina,therearemanydifferentkindsofrelativesoftheterms.HowevertherelationshipamongtheEnglish-speakingcountrieswillhaveamuchsimplerkinshipterms.Thefollowingdiagramsshowthecomparisonbe

8、tweensomeEnglishandChinesekinshipterms．Grandfather（grandpa）祖父