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1、语言社会与文化Language,CultureandSocietyModernEnglishLinguisticsStudiesL7WeinanTeachersUniversity欢迎2005届同学参加英语语言学的研讨！欢迎2005届同学参加英语语言学的研讨！LanguageandCultureSWHCultureinELTExercisesInterculturalCommunicationLanguageandSociety1.LanguageandCultureLanguageisanessentialandimportantpartofagivencultureandthatthe
2、impactofcultureuponagivenlanguageissomethingintrinsicandindispensable.Studyingtherelationshipoflanguageandcultureinasocialsituationcouldprovidelearnersadifferentperspectivetothestudyoflanguageintermsofsomenewtendenciesanddevelopmentsinthefieldofsociolinguistics.1.LanguageandCulture1.1WhatisCulture
3、?Culture,lexically,iscultivationofthesoil,production,development,orimprovementofaparticularplant,animal,commodity.Itistheideas,customs,skills,arts,etcofagivenpeopleinagivenperiod;civilization.Linguistically,itmeansthetotalwayoflifeofapeople,includingthepatternsofbelief,customs,objects,institutions
4、,techniques,andlanguagethatcharacterizesthelifeofthehumancommunity.Inanarrowsense,itrefertolocalorspecificpractice,beliefsorcustoms,forexample,folkculture,foodculture.1.LanguageandCulture1.1WhatisCulture?Twotypesofculture:materialandspiritual.Thematerialculturesuggeststheconcrete,substantialandobs
5、ervable,whilemostofspiritualculturearetheproductsofmind(ideologies,beliefs,valuesandconceptsoftimeandspace)isabstract,ambiguous,andhidden.EugeneNida,awell-knownlinguistandatranslationtheorist,believestherearefivetypesofsubculture:ecologicalculture,linguisticculture,religiousculture,materialculture
6、andsocialculture.1.LanguageandCulture1.2RelationBetweenLanguageandCultureIthasbecomeaxiomatictostatethatthereexistsacloserelationshipbetweenLanguageandculture.Languageisrelatedtocognition,andcognitionisrelatedtotheculturalsetting.1.LanguageandCulture1.2RelationBetweenLanguageandCultureMoreevidence
7、canbegatheredtosubstantiatethisclaimifwehaveabriefsurveyofwhathashappenedinthefieldoflinguisticsoverthepastcentury.1.LanguageandCulture1.2RelationBetweenLanguageandCultureSincethebeginningofthe18thcentury,theling
