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1、OnLexicalDifferencesinChineseandEnglishCausedbyCultureOnLexicalDifferencesinChineseandEnglishCausedbyCultureAbstract:Thepaperfirstintroducestoreaderswhatculturereallyis,andthenfocusesonthelexicaldifferencesinChineseandEnglish—lexicalvacancyandlexicalassociation.Thr
2、oughadetailedanalysis,itisconcludedthatlexicaldifferencesbetweenChineseandEnglishresultfromculturaldiversities,withwhichparticularlanguagesareassociated.Obviously,cultureplaysasignificantroleindeterminingtheuniquenessofalexicalsystem.Therefore,thelexicaldifferences
3、causedbycultureshouldbetakenintoaccountinanycross-culturalexchange.Keywords:culturelexicalvacancylexicalassociationTomasterthevocabularyofalanguage,onehastolearnthecultureitreflects,thatis,inthecourseoflexicallearning;heneedstobeexposedwidelytothecultureconcernedan
4、dbywhichtodevelopanawarenessandunderstandingofhisowncultureandthetargetculture.I.DefinitionsofCultureEveryhumansocietyhasaculture.Peoplewhogrowupinthesamenationcanbesaidtoshareanationalculture.Then,whatisculture?Probablythemostclassicdefinitionofculturewasprovidedb
5、ythe19th-centuryEnglishanthropologistEdwardBurnettTaylorinthefirstparagraphofhisPrimitiveCulture(1871):“Culture…isthatcomplexwholewhichincludesknowledge,belief,art,morals,law,custom,andanyothercapabilitiesandhabitsacquiredbymanasamemberofsociety.”Thisconceptofcultu
6、reservedanthropologistswellforsome50years.Withtheincreasingmaturityofanthropologicalscience,furtherreflectionsuponthenatureoftheirsubjectmatterandconceptsledtoamultiplicationanddiversificationofdefinitionsofculture.InCulture:ACriticalReviewofConceptsandDefinitions(
7、1952),U.S.anthropologistsA.L.KroeberandClydeKluckhohncited164definitionsofculture,rangingfrom“learnedbehavior”to“ideasinthemind”,“alogicalconstruct”,“astatisticalfiction”,“apsychicdefensemechanism”andsoon.Thedefinition—ortheconception—ofculturethatispreferredbyKroe
8、berandKluckhohnandalsobyagreatmanyotheranthropologistsisthatcultureisanabstractionor,morespecifically,“anabstractionfrombehavior”.Althoughonecanf
