文档介绍：Chapter 9 Language and Culture
1 What is culture?
2 The relationship . language and culture
3 Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
4 Linguistic evidence of cultural differences (for self-study)
5 The significance of cultural teaching and
learning
6 Cultural overlap and diffusion
7 munication
(P125)
What is culture?
1. scope (broad / narrow)
2. content (material / spiritual)
Please translate the following sentences into Chinese:
1. Where there is fear, there is modesty.
2. Modest dogs miss much meal.
3. The lady went up the aisle with one man and came back with another.
The relationship
1. Language expresses and embodies cultural reality, reflecting the people’s attitudes, beliefs, world outlooks, etc..
2. The culture both emancipates and constrains people socially, historically and metaphorically through their interactions with other members of the same group. (munity & accents)
3. Language plays a major role in socializing the people and in perpetuating culture, especially in print form.
The relationship
4. Culture also affects its people’s imagination mon dreams which are mediated through the language and reflected in their life.
5. Culture is a wider system pletely includes language as a subsystem.
The relationship
1. language in culture 2. language and culture
Bright (1976) big culture / small culture
beliefs
customs
institutions
objects
techniques
culture
others