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The Cultural Barriers in the Study of English Words.doc
The Cultural Barriers in the Study of English Words
Abstract： Language is the carriers of culture. people’s words and deeds reflect certain cultural connotation consciously or unconsciously. Word studying is the backbone in a language to study. So，if you want to manage it you should know some knowledge about its culture. Analyzing the differences of the cultural elements， such as social， history，regional，and interal causes etc， is very useful in the study of English words.
Key words： regional culture equivalent word internal causes
中图分类号： H319 文献标识码： A 文章编号： 1009-8631（2012）10-0053-02
I. Introduction
Study the word. Because language is the carrier of culture， people’s words and deeds reflect certain cultural connotation consciously or unconsciously. Every social communication possesses its own certain the word studying is the backbone in a language to study. So it is important for a foreigner to ought pattern， value， custom， and way of life， every word as the basic of language have their cultural character in the background， and we cannot understand and use the word every well if we did not have some cultural knowledge.
II. Four important cultural elements which affect the meaning of a word
For a long time， in China， English teaching has just focused on the language forms （such as phonetics， vocabulary and grammar） and ignored the effect of background knowledge of culture. As the carrier of culture， the cultural background of language is rather extensive. Lacking of the necessary cultural background may hinder people from comprehending language. For instance， when the President Reagan took up his post， an American told a Chinese teacher： “the United States has gone from peanuts to popcorn.” The syntax of this sentence is very simple. However， the Chinese teacher did not understand the sentence at that time until her friend explained to her that former President Jimmy Carter owned a big peanut farm while the present President Reagan is an actor an
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