文档介绍：英语语言学概论课程课件
课件名称:语言、文化和社会
制作者:外国语学院鞠玉梅
Chapter 7 Language, Culture, and Society
Purpose of teaching: to study the relation between culture, society and language
Focal points of teaching: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, Language Variation
Introduction
Fundamental concepts about the relation between language and culture and language and society:
Language is an essential and important part of a given culture.
The impact of culture upon a given language is something intrinsic and indispensable.
The heritage concerning the study of language and culture:
Malinowski’s study马林诺夫斯基的研究:
the word wood on the Trobriand Islands off eastern New Guinea
munity 言语社区
Firth’s study 弗斯的研究:
Context of Situation情景语境
Halliday’s study韩礼德的研究:
The study of language from a socially semiotic or interactional perspective
What did linguists from the North American side do?
The relationship between language and culture
The American Indian culture
The reconstruction of American Native languages
Boas, Sapir, Whorf
Field work, first-hand evidence
The ethnography munication 交际民俗学
1. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (萨丕尔—沃尔夫假说):
Our language helps mould our way of thinking anddifferent languages may probably express our unique ways of understanding the world.
Two points in his theory:
1) Language may determine our thinking patterns;
2) similarity between languages is relative, the greater their structural differentiation is, the more diverse their conceptualization of the world will be.
Linguistic determinism(语言决定论):语言决定思维
Linguistic relativity (语言相对论):思维相对于语言,思维模式随着语言的不同而不同。
The German ethnologist, Willaim von Humboldt 洪堡特
Eugene Nida 奈达: a linguist and translation theorist
As translators, if we want to do a good job in CROSS-MUNICATION, we should always be aware of some types of sub-culture.
Sapir: 真实世界在很大程度上是建筑在社会集团的语言习惯之上,并且是无意识的,不同社会生活的世界是不同的世界,甚至相对比较简单的感知事实也在很大程度上受到不同社会模式的支配。
Whorf:实际上,思维神秘莫测,而迄今为止我们对此所具有的最大理解是通过研究语言获得的。研究表明,人的思维是受到模式无情的法则控制的,这些模式就是人自己语言种种复杂的系统化,并且是人未感知到的。
人的世界观是由语言控制的。一