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1、ChineseandEnglishKinshipTermsAbstractInthispaperacomparisonismadebetweenChineseandEnglishkinshipsystemstoseetheirdifferencesandsimilarities,andatentativeexplanationisalsogiventothedifferencesofthesetwosystemsfromtheaspectofculture．ChineseandEnglishKinshipTermsThesisstatement：Ch
2、inesekinshipsystemandEnglishkinshipsystemareheavilyinfluencedbytheirrespectivecultures.Outline：1.Introduction2.ComparisonbetweenChineseandEnglishkinshipterms2.1Similarities2.2Differences3.CulturalconnotationofChineseandEnglishkinshipterms3.1CulturalconnotationofChinesekinshipte
3、rms3.1.1Theinfluenceofthefamily-centeredeconomy3.1.2Thevalueofclosefamilyrelationship3.1.3Thevalueregardingthesystemofrespect3.1.4Theover-emphasisonthedifferencesbetweenconsanguineandaffinalrelations3.2CulturalconnotationofEnglishkinshipterms4.ConclusionWorkscitedChineseandEngl
4、ishKinshipTerms1.IntroductionThroughouthumanhistorypeoplehavesoughttoidentifythemselvesandothersinsocialcontexts．Thisidentificationcomes,inpart,throughtheactofnaming,whichcarriesgreatsocialsignificanceforus（Trenhohn;Jensen1992)．Aswelearntoidentifyandcategorizetheworldaroundus,w
5、ealsolearnourplacewithinit．Ournamesetsusapartfromeveryotherhumanbeing．Justasourindividualnamesconnoteouruniquenesswithinsociety,sodothekinshiptermsapplytous．Kinshipterms,accordingtoE．R．Leach,,“categorywordsbymeansofwhichanindividualistaughttorecognizethesignificantgroupingsinth
6、esocialstructureintowhichheisborn"（143）．Theyarethelexicallyidenticaltermsanduniqueterminologicalsystemslabeledwithadistinctivesocialandculturalnature.Eachculturehasdefineditsownsetofkinshiptermsandtherolestheyserveinsociety．Thesekinshiptermsmaybeinfluencedbytheculture'spowerori
7、entation,philosophicalorreligiousassumptions,environment,oranynumberoffactors．Throughkinshipterms,itispossibletounderstandaculture'spowerstructure,particularinterpersonalcommunicationpatterns,andnormativeelementsofthefamilysystem,structure,andfunctions.Indifferentsocietiesandcu
8、ltures,theremustbedifferentsystemsofkinshipterms．Somes
