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1、ChineseandEnglishKinshipTermsAbstractInthispaperacomparisonismadebetweenChineseandEnglishkinshipsystemstoseetheirdifferencesandsimilarities,andatentativeexplanationisalsogiventothedifferencesofthesetwosystemsfromtheaspectofculture．ChineseandEnglishKinshipTermsThesisstatement：Chinesekinshi
2、psystemandEnglishkinshipsystemareheavilyinfluencedbytheirrespectivecultures.Outline：1.Introduction2.ComparisonbetweenChineseandEnglishkinshipterms2.1Similarities2.2Differences3.CulturalconnotationofChineseandEnglishkinshipterms3.1CulturalconnotationofChinesekinshipterms3.1.1Theinfluenceof
3、thefamily-centeredeconomy3.1.2Thevalueofclosefamilyrelationship3.1.3Thevalueregardingthesystemofrespect3.1.4Theover-emphasisonthedifferencesbetweenconsanguineandaffinalrelations3.2CulturalconnotationofEnglishkinshipterms4.ConclusionWorkscitedChineseandEnglishKinshipTerms1.IntroductionThro
4、ughouthumanhistorypeoplehavesoughttoidentifythemselvesandothersinsocialcontexts．Thisidentificationcomes,inpart,throughtheactofnaming,whichcarriesgreatsocialsignificanceforus（Trenhohn;Jensen1992)．Aswelearntoidentifyandcategorizetheworldaroundus,wealsolearnourplacewithinit．Ournamesetsusapar
5、tfromeveryotherhumanbeing．Justasourindividualnamesconnoteouruniquenesswithinsociety,sodothekinshiptermsapplytous．Kinshipterms,accordingtoE．R．Leach,,“categorywordsbymeansofwhichanindividualistaughttorecognizethesignificantgroupingsinthesocialstructureintowhichheisborn"（143）．Theyarethelexic
6、allyidenticaltermsanduniqueterminologicalsystemslabeledwithadistinctivesocialandculturalnature.Eachculturehasdefineditsownsetofkinshiptermsandtherolestheyserveinsociety．Thesekinshiptermsmaybeinfluencedbytheculture'spowerorientation,philosophicalorreligiousassumptions,environment,oranynumb
7、eroffactors．Throughkinshipterms,itispossibletounderstandaculture'spowerstructure,particularinterpersonalcommunicationpatterns,andnormativeelementsofthefamilysystem,structure,andfunctions.Indifferentsocietiesandcultures,theremustbedifferentsystemsofkinship7terms．Some
