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1、中英思維與語(yǔ)言比較TheRelationbetweenThoughtandLanguageTheopinionsvaryontherelationshipbetweenlanguageandthoughtalthoughthestudiesonithavebeenlastedforover2000years.Tosumup,therearefiveparlances,i.e.theoryofequationoflanguageandthought,languagedeterminism,andthoughtdeterminism,independentlanguag
2、e-thoughttheory,andseparate-combinativetheory.Theoryofequationoflanguageandthought:Languageandthoughtaretwonamesofthesamething.Theyareproducedsimultaneously,inwhichthoughtissilentlanguage,andlanguageisthevoicedthought.Determinism:Languagecharacteristicsplayadeterminedroleintheprocessof
3、cognition.Languageisthebasisofthought,andvariouslanguagesleadtovariousthoughtandworldoutlook.Thoughtdeterminism:Thoughtexistsbeforelanguage;thecategoryofthoughtdeterminesthatoflanguage.Itisthoughtthatfirstcomesintohuman'smind,andthenpeoplecanspeakitoutbymeansofappropriatewordsorothersy
4、mbols.Independentlanguage-thoughttheory:Languageandthoughtarerelativelyindependent.Therearevariouskindsofknowledgeinhumanworld,andtheprocessofacquiringnaturallanguageisuniquewhichisrestrictedtospecialtheories,principlesandrules.Whereas,theotherknowledgeisacquiredthroughobservation,gene
5、ralizationandconditionedreflex,etc.Manyexamplescanprovetheexistenceofthoughtsystemswhichisindependentoflanguage.Separate-combinativetheory:Bothlanguageandthoughthaveitsseparatesource.Fromtheperspectiveofpolygeneticdevelopment,differentlanguageandthoughtholddifferentgeneticsource;meanwh
6、ile,theirdevelopmentisnotparallel,whosedevelopmentcurveoftenintersect.Intermsofdevelopmentofindividuals,thedevelopmentofthoughtandlanguageentersastageofconcourse(合流)andformanewkindofbehaviorpatternonlywhenthebabygrowstoagetwo.Inaword,languageandthoughthavedifferentsourceandtheycombinea
7、tlatertime.1.Sapir-WhorfHypothesisSapir-WhorfHypothesis,putforwardbytheAmericanlinguistsEdwardSapirandBenjaminLeeWhorf,isamould(鑄)theoryoflanguage.Thishypothesisiswidelyquotedanddiscussedininterculturalcommunicationfield.Sapir(1929)arguedinaclassicpassagethat:...Itisquiteanillusionto
