language and culture大学英语语言学课件.ppt

Language and Culture Definitions of culture In Chinese, it is 文化 If a farmer says “ 我没文化,不识字”, here it means illiterate. If a person is looking at an abstract painting and says “我文化水平不够高,欣赏不了这幅画”, what he means is taste. What is culture? Culture, in a broad sense, 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. What is culture? In a narrow sense, culture may refer to local or specific practice, beliefs or customs, which can be mostly found in folk culture,