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1、AStudyofKinshipTermsBetweenChineseandEnglishinCrossCultureKinreferstoone'sfamilyandrelatives.Kinshipisanimportantaspectofthecomplexsystemofculture,anditisarelationshipbetweenanyentitiesthatshareagenealogicalorigin,throughbiological,cultural,orhistoricaldescent.Itisthemostbasicpr
2、incipleoforganizingindividualsintosocialgroups,roles,categoriesandgenealogy.Someformoforganizationbasedonparentageandmarriageispresentineveryhumansociety.Kinshiptermsystemreferstoallkinshiptermsandtheirrelationships---inabroadsense,itisthelanguage-culturesystemofallkinshiptermsi
3、nhumansocieties;inanarrowsense,itrefersinparticulartothelanguage-culturesystemofsomespecifickinshiptermsinthosesocieties,suchasChinesekinshipsystemandEnglishkinshipsystem.TherearemanydifferencesbetweenChineseandEnglishinkinshipterms,TheChineselanguagehasmanyprecisetermsfordescri
4、bingfamilyandotherrelationships.Chinesespeakersdistinguishbetweenrelativesonthemothersideofthefamilyfromthoseonthefathersideandusedifferenttermstorefertorelativesoneachsideofthefamily.Chinesespeakersusespecifictermstoaddresstheirfamilymembersandeachnamecontainsthemeaningofthepre
5、ciserelationshipbetweenthespeakerandthepersonbeingaddressed.TheEnglishareonthecontrary,theydonotusuallypaysomuchattentiononthis.Hereisanexample,inChinese,tangxiong/di/jie/meiwiththelabel"tang"arethechildrenoffather'sbrothers,whiletherestwiththelabel"biao"arechildrenoffather'ssis
6、ters'andmother'sbrothers'andsisters."tang”inChineseliterallymeans"themainpartofahousewherethefamilygettogether",whilebiaomeans”surface,outsideordistant".Thedifferencesbetween"tang"and"biao"aredifferentinChinesekinshipterms,becauseinChinatherearedistinctionsbetweentherelativesatt
7、achedtothemaleandthefemalerelatives.Thus,Son'ssonordaughteraresunzi/nv,whiledaughter'ssonordaughterwaisunxi/nv;father'sparentsarezufu/muwhilemother'sparentsarewaizufu/mu.wai,whichhasthesamemeaningasbiao,isoneofthemarkstodistinguishthekinrelationsattachedtothemaleandthefemale.Inc
8、ontrast,thereisonlyoneterm"cousin"torefertothek
