新编简明英语语言学教程第9章.language and culture.pptVIP

Chapter 9 Language and Culture;What is culture? ;In a broad sense, culture means the total way of life of a people, including the patterns of belief, customs, objects, institutions, techniques, and language that characterizes the life of the human community. In a narrow sense, culture may refer to local or specific practice, beliefs or customs, which can be mostly found in folk culture, enterprise culture or food culture, etc. There are generally two types of culture: material and spiritual.; What is Culture?; Please translate the following sentences into Chinese: 1. Where there is fear, there is modesty. 2. Modest dogs miss much meat. 3. The lady went up the aisle with one man and came back with another.;Where there is fear there is modesty.(原为拉丁语格言：谦虚源于胆怯。)vs.老王买瓜，自卖自夸(反讽) Modest dogs miss much meat.(英语：谦虚的狗没肉吃。)vs.满招损，谦受益 The lady went up the aisle with one man and came back with another.”一句，意为“这位女士同一个男人走了礼坛，却同另一个男人走回来。”它蕴含着西方文化中的婚礼习俗，即新娘由父亲带着走上婚礼的神坛，然后交给新郎。如若不懂西方这种婚礼习俗，就无法理解，还真以为这位新娘片刻换了郎君呢! ;1. Language expresses and embodies cultural reality, reflecting the products of community culture, such as social conventions, norms and social appropriateness. 2. The culture both emancipates and constrains people socially, historically and metaphorically through their interactions with other members of the same group. (discourse community accents) 3. Language plays a major role in socializing the people and in perpetuating culture, especially in print form.;4. Culture also affects its people’s imagination or common dreams which are mediated through the language and reflected in their life. 5. Culture is a wider system that completely includes language as a subsystem.;; What do you think the relation between language and thought is? Language is the outward form of thought. Thought exists independently of language since people can exchange their thought through ways other than language. ; A very influential and extremely controversial theory concerning langua