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1、ChineseandEnglishKinshipTermsThesisstatement：ThispaperisintendedtomakeacomparisonbetweenChineseandEnglishkinshipsystemstoseetheirdifferencesandsimilarities,andatentativeexplanationisgiventothedifferencesofthesetwosystemsfromtheaspectofcultureastoillustr
2、atethecommunicativefunctionstheyplayintheirownsociety．Outline：1.Introduction2.ComparisonbetweenChineseandEnglishkinshipterms2.1Similarities2.2Differences3.CulturalconnotationofChineseandEnglishkinshipterms3.1CulturalconnotationofChinesekinshipterms3.1.1
3、Theinfluenceofthefamily-centeredeconomy3.1.2Thevalueofclosefamilyrelationship3.1.3Thevalueregardingthesystemofrespect3.1.4Theover-emphasisonthedifferencesbetweenconsanguineandaffinalrelations3.2CulturalconnotationofEnglishkinshipterms4.ConclusionWorksci
4、tedChineseandEnglishKinshipTerms1.IntroductionThroughouthumanhistorypeoplehavesoughttoidentifythemselvesandothersinsocialcontexts．Thisidentificationcomes,inpart,throughtheactofnaming,whichcarriesgreatsocialsignificanceforus（Trenhohn;Jensen1992)．Aswelear
5、ntoidentifyandcategorizetheworldaroundus,wealsolearnourplacewithinit．Ournamesetsusapartfromeveryotherhumanbeing．Justasourindividualnamesconnoteouruniquenesswithinsociety,sodothekinshipternsapplytous．Kinshipterms,accordingtoE．R．Leach,,“categorywordsbymea
6、nsofwhichanindividualistaughttorecognizethesignificantgroupingsinthesocialstructureintowhichheisborn"（143）．Theyarethelexicallyidenticaltermsanduniqueterminologicalsystemslabeledwithadistinctivesocialandculturalnature.Eachculturehasdefineditsownsetofkins
7、hiptermsandtherolestheyserveinsociety．Thesekinshiptermsmaybeinfluencedbytheculture'spowerorientation,philosophicalorreligiousassumptions,environment,oranynumberoffactors．Throughkinshipterms,itispossibletounderstandaculture'spowerstructure,particularinte
8、rpersonalcommunicationpatterns,andnormativeelementsofthefamilysystem,structure,andfunctions.Indifferentsocietiesandcultures,theremustbedifferentsystemsofkinshipterns．Somesystemsare“richer"or“moreprecise"thanothers,reflectingtheso
