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1、IReview1.WhatistheHofstedemodelofculturalpattern?2.Whatishigh-contextcommunicationandwhatislow-contextcommunication?Howaboutthemajordifferencesbetweenahigh-contextcultureandalow-contextone?UnitFourLanguageandCultureI.WarmUpPleasereadthehumorousdialoguesonpage118,thentr
2、ytotranslatethemintoChinese.CantheyberenderedinChineseashumorousastheoriginal?II.LanguageandCulture1.Readthearticleof“HowIsLanguageRelatedtoCulture”.Whatdoyouthinkistherelationshipbetweenlanguageandculture?1)therelationshipbetweenlanguageandculture:Cultureandlanguagear
3、eintertwined相互交錯(cuò)andshapeeachother.Itisimpossibletoseparatethetwo.Languageisnotamatterofneutralcodesandgrammaticalrules.Eachtimeweselectwords,formsentences,andsendamessage,eitheroralorwritten,wealsomakeculturalchoices.Thus,wehavetobeawareoftheculturalimplicationsoftheph
4、raseifwewanttoavoidattributingaverydifferentmeaningtoitorinterpret解釋itliterally.第12頁(yè)共12頁(yè)1)Functionsoflanguage:e.g.questions:askingforinformation–informationquestionsalubricant潤(rùn)滑劑tomovetheconversationforward–socialquestionsExamples:Howareyou?吃了嗎?2)Themeaningofthewordsco
5、mesoutofthecontext,theculturalusage用法.①Languagereflectstheenvironmentinwhichwelive.Example:self-introductionofGermansandAmericans②Languagereflectsculturalvalues.3)Problems:①Therearenosuchequivalentsbetweenlanguages,andwetranslateconceptsfromaforeignlanguageandculturewi
6、thwordsthatfitourpriorities優(yōu)先順序.Thereforetocommunicateconceptseffectively,culturalknowledgeisasimportantaslinguisticknowledge.Examples:manana/tomorrowkinshipterms親屬稱謂(E&C)p125-126②Sometimesdifferentculturesuseidentical完全相同wordsthathaveratherdifferentmeanings.Examples:a
7、dministration,director,forcemajeure4)Languagechangesovertime.Wordsandphrasesthatareused第12頁(yè)共12頁(yè)commonlyatonetimemaybediscontinuedortheirmeaningmaychangeovertime.1)Alanguage,ifspokenindifferentpartsoftheglobe,ultimatelywilldevelopdifferently.Examples;pidginEnglishes2.Re
8、adthearticleof“Language-and-Culture,TwoSidesoftheSameCoin”.Howdoeslanguagereflecttheculture?1)Languageandculturearecl