新编简明英语语言学教程 第二版 戴炜栋9 Language and Culture.ppt

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, institutions, techniques, language and etc. 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. The relationship between language and culture The same word may stir up different associations in peopl