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1、AStudyofKinshipTermsBetweenChineseandEnglishinCrossCultureKinreferstoone'sfamilyandrelatives.Kinshipisanimportantaspectofthecomplexsystemofculture,anditisarelationshipbetweenanyentitiesthatshareagenealogicalorigin,throughbiological,cultural,orhistoricaldescent.Itisthemo
2、stbasicprincipleoforganizingindividualsintosocialgroups,roles,categoriesandgenealogy.Someformoforganizationbasedonparentageandmarriageispresentineveryhumansociety.Kinshiptermsystemreferstoallkinshiptermsandtheirrelationships---inabroadsense,itisthelanguage-culturesystem
3、ofallkinshiptermsinhumansocieties;inanarrowsense,itrefersinparticulartothelanguage-culturesystemofsomespecifickinshiptermsinthosesocieties,suchasChinesekinshipsystemandEnglishkinshipsystem.TherearemanydifferencesbetweenChineseandEnglishinkinshipterms,TheChineselanguageh
4、asmanyprecisetermsfordescribingfamilyandotherrelationships.Chinesespeakersdistinguishbetweenrelativesonthemothersideofthefamilyfromthoseonthefathersideandusedifferenttermstorefertorelativesoneachsideofthefamily.Chinesespeakersusespecifictermstoaddresstheirfamilymembersa
5、ndeachnamecontainsthemeaningofthepreciserelationshipbetweenthespeakerandthepersonbeingaddressed.TheEnglishareonthecontrary,theydonotusuallypaysomuchattentiononthis.Hereisanexample,inChinese,tangxiong/di/jie/meiwiththelabel"tang"arethechildrenoffather'sbrothers,whilether
6、estwiththelabel"biao"arechildrenoffather'ssisters'andmother'sbrothers'andsisters."tang”inChineseliterallymeans"themainpartofahousewherethefamilygettogether",whilebiaomeans”surface,outsideordistant".Thedifferencesbetween"tang"and"biao"aredifferentinChinesekinshipterms,be
7、causeinChinatherearedistinctionsbetweentherelativesattachedtothemaleandthefemalerelatives.Thus,Son'ssonordaughteraresunzi/nv,whiledaughter'ssonordaughterwaisunxi/nv;father'sparentsarezufu/muwhilemother'sparentsarewaizufu/mu.wai,whichhasthesamemeaningasbiao,isoneofthemar
8、kstodistinguishthekinrelationsattachedtothemaleandthefemale.Incontrast,thereisonlyoneterm"cousin"torefertothek
