跨文化交际课件Unit.4.II.ppt

Unit Four Language and Culture Part Two Teaching Contents I Sharing Knowledge II. Translation across Languages III. Case Study IV. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis How to Say Yes and No Translate the following: 1) Do you like the new school? --Yes, I do 2) –Please don’t say that --Yes, I will 3)—I know what he wants -- Yes? -- Money! 4)– Waiter! --Yes, sir 5)—Yes? --I’d like two tickets, please 6)– Everything will be all right soon, yes? 2 Different ways to say Yes How to refuse others? 1) Being silent or showing a lack of enthusiasm 2)Offering an alternative 3)Postponement(delaying answers) 4) Putting the responsibility on a third party or something over which you have no control 5)Avoidance 6) General acceptance of an offer but giving no details 7) Diverting and distracting 2 Japanese way to say No Discovering Problems:Translating across Languages 1. Lexical equivalence 2. Idiomatic equivalence 3. Grammatical-syntactical equivalence 4. Experiential equivalence 5. Conceptual equivalence Lexical Equivalence Color Terms 眼红 青天 怡红公子 blue-eyed boy green-eyed blue sky Green Boy 眼中红人 Idiomatic Equivalence raining cats and dogs Love me, love my dog. Give a dog a bad name and hang him. 狗嘴里吐不出象牙来 a filthily mouth can not utter decent language Grammatical-Syntactical Equivalence who, which, that, what (no relative pronouns in Korean) 2.Countable and Uncountable nouns Japanese: much shoes? many patience? Experiential Equivalence 1.The word “Ocean” to the tribe in a mountainous jungle region 2.Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Conceptual Equivalence Spanish: Te amo / Te quieto English: owl cricket Chinese: magpie bat Case 13 我失骄杨君失柳, 杨柳轻飏直上重霄九。 ----- 蝶恋花·答李淑一 Version 1 I lost my proud Poplar and you your Willow, Poplar and Willow soar into the Ninth Heaven