From Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to Foreign Language Learning 社会语言学论文

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1、FromSapir-WhorfHypothesistoForeignLanguageLearningAbstractSapir-WhorfHypothesis,whichstudiestherelationshipbetweenlanguageandthought,ithasplayedaleadingroleintheacademicworldforalongtime.Somescholarsclaimthatpeople'sthoughtwasinfluenced,directlyanddefinitely,bylanguage.Butso

2、mesticktotheviewthatthishypothesisischaracterizedbythefollowingshortcomings:theexaggerationofthefunctionoflanguage,thelimitedexplanatoryability,theignoranceofdiachronicchangeandlanguageandthelackofabilitytoexplainlanguagevariance.ButaftertheanalysisofthelinguisticfeaturesofC

3、hineseandEnglish,aswellastheirrespectivemodesofthought,boththestrongandweakversionseemsinvalid.Maybeitismorecorrecttosaythatlanguageisthecarrierofthoughtandreflectsthought.Languageandthoughtinteractwitheachother.Thoughtherelationshipbetweenlanguageandthoughtishardtodefine,th

4、estudyitselfhasitsimplicationsforforeignlanguageteachingandlearning:inconceptunderstanding,insyntaxstudyordiscoursestudy,aswellasinvocabularystudy,willbemoreeffectiveifitisfromdifferentcognitiveperspectivesanddifferentmodesofthought.ContentsChapterIIntroductiontoSapir-WhorfH

5、ypothesis……………………………1ChapterIIContrastivelinguisticfeaturesofChineseandEnglish……………22.1ParataxisandHypotaxis……………………………………………….22.2ActiveandPassive…………………………………………………….32.3DynamicandStatic……………………………………………………32.4PersonandImperson………………………………………………….4ChapterIIIContrastivethin

6、king-patternsofChineseandEnglish…………...43.1EthicsandCognition………………………………………………….43.2SyntheticandAnalytic……………………………………………….53.3IntuitionandEvidence………………………………………………..53.4FigurativethinkingandLogicthinking……………………………….5ChapterIVRelationshipbetweenlanguageandthought…………………….

7、.6ChapterVTheimplicationofRelationshipbetweenlanguageandthoughtonforeignlanguagelearning…………………………………………..75.1Conceptuallevel………………………………………………………..75.2Wordlevel……………………………………………………………85.3Syntacticlevel………………………………………………………..85.4Textuallevel…………………………………………………………9ChapterVICo

8、nclusion…………………………………………………9References.....................................