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1、.IntroductionLanguageisthecarrierandcontainerofculture,whichisinfluencedandshapedbyculture,andsimultaneouslyreflectsculture.[1]P7Beinganintegralpartoflanguagelexicon,thekinshiptermsisdeeplyembeddedincultureandalsodirectlyreflectculture.Kinshiptermsrefertoterminologieswhichtakeoneasthecente
2、rtodefiniterelatives’relationshipwithoneself.[2]P79Theirmainresourcesareblood,marriageandlaw.Generally,kinshiptermsareclassifiedintofourseries:paternalside,maternalside,sideofhusbandandsideofwife.Owingtodifferentlanguagesandsocialbackgrounds,differentnationshaveproduceddifferentkinshipsyst
3、ems.Itlogicallyfollowsthatvariedkinshiptermscomeintobeing.ThispapermainlyfocusesonthreedifferentcharactersbetweenEnglishkinshiptermsandChinesekinshipterms.Bycontrastivestudy,thethreedifferencesrespectivelyincomplexity,stresspointandthedistinctionofrelationshiparepresented.Bythecomparison,t
4、heculturaldifferencesbetweenthemareobviouslyobserved.ⅠThecomparisonbetweenEnglishandChinesekinshipterms1.1ComplexityEnglishkinshiptermsbelongtoEskimokinterminologywithatypicalfeatureofsuccinctnessandgenerality.Onthecontrary,ChinesekinshiptermsbelongtoSudanesekinterminology,whichentailscomp
5、lexityandspecificity.[3]P145Asthefollowingchartshown:EnglishChineseEnglishChinesefather父亲mother母亲husband丈夫wife妻子son儿子daughter女儿grandfather祖父,外祖父grandmother祖母,外祖母brother哥哥,弟弟sister姐姐,妹妹grandson孙子,外孙granddaughter孙女,外孙女uncle伯,叔,舅,姨夫,姑父aunt伯母,婶母,姑母,舅母,姨母nephew侄子,外甥niece侄女,外甥女father-in-law公公,岳父
6、mother-in-law婆婆,岳母son-in-law女婿daughter-in-law儿媳brother-in-law大伯,小叔,姐夫,妹夫,内兄,内弟sister-in-law大姑,小姑,大姨,小姨,嫂子,弟媳..cousin堂哥,堂弟,表兄,表弟cousin堂姐,堂妹,表姐,表妹Inthechartabove,kinshiptermsofthreegenerationsareincluded.ThenumberofEnglishkinshiptermsis23incontrastto58Chinesekinshipterms.[4]P228Therefore,the
7、differencebetweenthemisclearlyshown.Englishkinshiptermsarepoorandgeneral.Thedenotationofacertainkinshiptermisnotdesignated.Forexample,theterm“sister”canmeanbotholdersisterandyoungersister.Sodoes“brother”.Moreover,expectthekinshiptermsinnuclearfamily,thereisnod