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* * Cross-culture Communication (2) Kinship Terms 亲属称谓 Grandmother 外祖母,祖母 Brother 哥哥,弟弟 Language and culture Culture influences language. Language is a mirror of culture. Language is culture. Linguistic determinism--- Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis---Sapir Language is a guide to “social reality”. Though language is not ordinarily thought of as of essential interest to the students of social science, it powerfully conditions all our thinking about social problems and processes. Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alon