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1、.AComparativeStudyonChineseandEnglishKinshipTermsLanguageisnotonlyoneofthefactorsofsocialculture,butalsothecarrierofculture.Culturecannotpassonfromgenerationtogenerationwithoutthestorageandtransmissionoflanguage.Theuseoflanguageislimitedbycultureanddifferentlanguagea
2、lsoreflectsdifferentcultures.Nowadays,withtherapiddevelopmentofscienceandcommunicationtechnology,moreandmorepeopleliveandworkindifferentsocialcultures.Andpeoplewithdifferentculturalbackgroundsalsohaveacloseassociationtoday.Intheprocessofworld’sbecomingtoaglobalvillag
3、e,variouskindsofculturesinfluenceandinfiltrateintoeachother.CulturalabsorbingandfusionleadtoagreatinfluenceontheInterculturalCommunication.SuccessfullyconductedinEnglish,cross-culturalcommunicationrequiresmorethanjustlanguageskills,butalsoneedstoknowthecultureofEngli
4、sh-speakingcountries.Otherwise,itcausestotheculturaldifferencesintheactualcommunicationprocess,inappropriateorunbecominglanguagescenemistakes,misunderstanding.Recently,addresstermsbecomesoneofthehottesttopicsincross-culturalcommunication.Ontheonehand,asamirror,itrefl
5、ectssocialcultures;ontheotherhand,culturealsodecidesandaffectstheusageofaddresstermsinpracticalsituations.Kinshiptermsasapartofaddresstermstakeanimportantpartinourdailylife.Kinshipreferstothesystemofhumanrelationshipbornofmarriage,tiesofbloodandlaws.[2](DaiQingxia戴庆厦
6、:2004,139)Oneinterestingwayinwhichpeopleuselanguageindailylifecontainsvariouskindsofkinships.Thereisaconsiderableliteratureonkinshipterminology,describinghowpeopleindifferentpartsoftheworldcalluncles,aunts,brothers,sisters,cousinsandsoon.Becausekinshipsystemsaresoimp
7、ortantinsocialorganization,kinshipsystemsareauniversalfeatureoflanguages.Somesystemsaremuch‘richer’thanothers.Butonecanrelatekinshipsystemswithconsiderableconfidencetotheactualwordsthatpeopleusetodescribeaparticularkinrelationship.Anditisnecessaryforustomakeacontrast
8、between...ChinesekinshiptermsandEnglishkinshiptermsanddosomestudyonit.I.ContrastofKinshipTerms1.1ContrastofKinshipTermsOntheonehand