Chinese and English Kinship Terms 跨文化交际论文

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1、ChineseandEnglishKinshipTermsThesisstatement：ThispaperisintendedtomakeacomparisonbetweenChineseandEnglishkinshipsystemstoseetheirdifferencesandsimilarities,andatentativeexplanationisgiventothedifferencesofthesetwosystemsfromtheaspectofcultureastoillustratethecommunicativefunctionstheyplayi

2、ntheirownsociety．Outline：1.Introduction2.ComparisonbetweenChineseandEnglishkinshipterms2.1Similarities2.2Differences3.CulturalconnotationofChineseandEnglishkinshipterms3.1CulturalconnotationofChinesekinshipterms3.1.1ThebackgroundofChineseeconomyandsociety3.1.2Thefamilyrelationshipbasedonma

3、rrigeandblood3.2CulturalconnotationofEnglishkinshipterms3.2.1ThedevelopmentofWesternculture3.2.2ThecharacterofBritishpeople3.2.3ThestructureofWesternfamily4.ConclusionWorkscitedChineseandEnglishKinshipTerms1.Introduction:Whenitcomestothelanguage.Peoplecan’thelpthinkingoftheculture.Similarl

4、y,whenitcomestotheculture.Peoplewillconnectitwithlanguage.Therearemanydifferentversionsaboutthedefinitionoflanguageallthetime.NowtheChineselanguageacademiccircleswidelybelievethatlanguageisasystemofarbitraryvocalsymbolsusedforhumancommunication.Conceptofcultureisverywidescope.Theentirehuma

5、ncivilizationincludesfood,architecture,art,religion,customs,ideasandlanguageetcthatbelongtothecategoryofculture.Inthispaper,I'dliketomakeacomparisonbetweenChineseandEnglishkinshipsystemstoseetheirdifferencesandsimilarities,andthenI'lltrytogiveatentativeexplanationtothedifferencesofthesetwo

6、systemsfromtheaspectofculture．Fromthecomparison,maybewecanknowthecommunicativefunctionstheyplayintheirownsociety.2.ComparisonbetweenChineseandEnglishkinshiptermsAsweknow,sincethedifferentcultureandphilosophicalbasis.ChinaandWesterncountrieshavedifferentinterpretationsontheinterpersonalrela

7、tionshipsystems.InChina,therearemanydifferentkindsofrelativesoftheterms.HowevertherelationshipamongtheEnglish-speakingcountrieswillhaveamuchsimplerkinshipterms.ThefollowingdiagramsshowthecomparisonbetweensomeEnglishandChinesekinshipterms．Grandfather（grandpa）祖父