Language and culture 介绍语言与文化的(课堂PPT)

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Relationship between language and culture
• Language is part of culture. • Language is the carrier and container of culture. • Language is influenced and shaped by culture. • Every people have its distinct language and culture.
Language and culture
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Outline
• What is language , what is culture and the relationship between them.
• Dialect(方言) in different culture. • Idioms(俗语) in different culture. • Chinese + English = Chinglish(中国式英语) • The significance of cultural learning in learning language • Conclusion
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Dialect in different culture
People in North America of different areas speak different English.
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Idioms in different culture
• Idioms as a special form of language exit in both of them and carry a large amount of cultural information such as history , geography , and religion , custom , nationality psychology , thought pattern and etc , and therefore are closely related to culture .
• Sociologists think that language is social behavior and language has a social function , both as a means of communication and also a way of identifying social groups.
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What is culture?
• In a broad way , culture means the total way of life of a person ,including the patter of belief , customs , objects , institutions , techniques, and language that characterizes the life of human community.
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What is Language?
• Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas , emotions ,and desires by a system of voluntarily produced symbols .These symbols are auditory and are produced by the organs of speech.
Different cultures make their different ideas , values and beliefs reflected in different languages .
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in different culture
• Dialect is a mirror of culture . It reflects different culture in different area. Dialect is the form of language that is spoken in one area with grammar , words and pronunciation that may be different from other forms of the same language.
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Dialect in different culture
Different town has different dialect. If 2 persons coming from different place do not learn Putonghua , they will confused by separate dialect.
• Idioms basically comes from the folk, and to a great extent , reflects a nationality’s cultural characteristics , and the different nationality’s experience of life and the national languages.
• In a narrow way , culture may refer to local or specific practice , beliefs or customs , which can be mostly found in folk culture , enterprise culture of food culture and so on.
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For example
• Britain Island is surrounded by sea . That’s the reason that words or terms about sea and boat are rich , such as smooth sailing , all at sea ; ship ,ferry ,canoe ,barge ,yawl .
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