现代英语语言学理论_CHAPTER_7教材教学课件.ppt

现代英语语言学概论 渭南师范学院 崔建斌 现代英语语言学概论 语言社会与文化 Language, Culture and Society Modern English Linguistics Studies L 7 Language and Culture SWH Culture in ELT Exercises Intercultural Communication Language and Society  1. Language and Culture Language is an essential and important part of a given culture and that the impact of culture upon a given language is something intrinsic and indispensable. Studying the relationship of language and culture in a social situation could provide learners a different perspective to the study of language in terms of some new tendencies and developments in the field of sociolinguistics.  1. Language and Culture 1.1 What is Culture ? Culture, lexically, is cultivation of the soil, production, development, or improvement of a particular plant , animal, commodity. It is the ideas, customs, skills, arts, etc of a given people in a given period; civilization. Linguistically, it 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, it refer to local or specific practice, beliefs or customs, for example, folk culture, food culture.  1. Language and Culture 1.1 What is Culture ? Two types of culture: material and spiritual. The material culture suggests the concrete, substantial and observable, while most of spiritual culture are the products of mind (ideologies, beliefs, values and concepts of time and space) is abstract, ambiguous, and hidden. Eugene Nida, a well-known linguist and a translation theorist, believes there are five types of subculture: ecological culture, linguistic culture, religious culture, material culture and social culture.  1. Language and Culture 1.2 Relation Between Language and Culture It has become axiomatic to state that there exists a close relationship between Language and cultu