-
吉
林
农
业
科
技
学
院
学
士
学
位
论
论
文
题
目：浅析中西方文化差异英语学习的
影响
年
级
专
业：
10
级英语本科
2
班
学
生
姓
名：田学龄
学
号：
1009603206
指
导
教
师：
范可微
评
阅
教
师：
完
成
日
期：
20
14
年
5
月
2
0
日
吉林农业科技学院
文
Jilin Agricultural Science
and
Technology University
Thesis for
Bachelor
’
s Degree
Title:
Analyzing the
influence of Chinese and western culture
differences in
learning English language
Major
：
English
Name
：
TIanXueling
Number: 1
Tutor
：
Fan Kewei
Date
：
05/ 20/2014
Analyzing the
Influence of Chinese and Western Culture
Differences in Learning English Language
摘
要
本文探讨了中西方文化差异对英语
学习的影响，认为跨文化交际是影响学生
学习英语的最主要障碍，包括种族不同、政治文
化不同、宗教信仰不同以及社会
生活不同。
并提出了提高学习能
力的有效策略，
如
:
充分了解西方文化
背景、
忌讳
等。
关键词：
中西方；文化；差异；英语；学生
I
Analyzing the Influence of Chinese and
Western Culture Differences in Learning English
Language
Abstract
This paper probes into the
difference between Chinese and Western countries
which influence our English learning,
analyzing such elements as ethnic customs,
political and cultural difference,
religious belief, and social life .Besides, this
paper
proposes the effective strategies
of how to improve English , such as knowing the
background of western countries and
taboo.
Key
words:
Chinese and Western; culture;
difference; learning
II
Analyzing the
Influence of Chinese and Western Culture
Differences in Learning English Language
Content
摘
要
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I
Abstract
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................ II
Content
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Chapter 1 Introduction ................
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..................................... 1
Chapter 2 The relationship between
language and culture..............................
................... 2
2.1
Language is a very important part of culture. ....
..................................................
2
2.2 Language reflects the
culture of a nation. .............................
............................... 3
2.3 Language and cultural happened at
the same time.
.
............
................................. 3
2.4. Language is a tool of thinking,
and the composition of the culture
without
thinking.
.
.....................................
..................................................
......................................
3
2.5
Different
language
have
different
useful
because
of
the
different
culture
background.
................
..................................................
..................................................
.... 3
Chapter 3 The
influence of English learning between the
difference
of Chinese and
western
countries
.
.................
..................................................
..................................................
.. 4
3.1. The influence of
ethnic customs difference to the English learning
................... 4
3.2
Political differences on the impact of learning
English .......................................
5
3.3 The influence of
religious beliefs different to the English
learning
.
....................
5
3.4 The differences of
social life impact on English learning
.
...................................
7
3.4.1 Different values ...
..................................................
.................................... 8
3.4.2 Different in Wine
.
..........................................
............................................
9
3.4.3 Different in Wedding
.......................................
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9
3.5 The influence of the
geographical regional differences in English
learning .
.
...
10
3.6 The historical
allusion differences to English learning
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11
Conclusion
.
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Bibliography
.
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............. 13
Acknowledgement
.
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III
Analyzing the
Influence of Chinese and Western Culture
Differences in Learning English Language
IV
Analyzing the Influence of Chinese and
Western Culture Differences in Learning English
Language
Chapter 1 Introduction
In
this
rapidly
developing
society,
diversified
economies
need
meeting,
negotiations.
Each nation
has its own unique cultural backgrounds, lead to
the difference values, thinking
mode,
and social rules. The cross-cultural communication
burgeons fast, and becomes the
key
point of our study, and turns to the most
important point in English learning. English
education is too important to help
Chinese go out of the world. Most people is
confused for
the English learning. A
lot of words and solid grammar can not make people
communicate
flexible; on the contrary
people can understand the meaning but can not to
say. There are
appeared “chinglish” in
Chinese, and appeared a series of joke, even the
misunderstanding.
And
then
why
we
have
no
way
to
communication,
the
answer
is
the
difference
between
hinese
and
the
western
countries,
it
contains
the
different
language
words,
different
backgrounds, and different language
communications.
In
communication,
according
to
the
research
of
scholars
at
home .And
abroad,the
influence of cultural is more important
than language. Rosst(1974) claimed information
that
is
of
only
35%,and
Cross-cultural
communication
message
is
as
high
as
65%.Me
Brabia
(1968)
thought,
about
93%of
the
information
effect
factors
derived
Chinese
and
western
cultural
differences.
As we know, there are so
many differences between culture of the East and
West that I
can not list all of their
different aspects. I will focus on the differences
of diet custom and
teaching system. For
your better understanding, I will set examples of
China and America.
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Western Culture Differences in Learning English
Language
Chapter 2 The relationship between
language and culture
Language and
culture has a close relationship. From the
perspective of the institutional
features of language, language is a
symbol system; it is include the phonemes,
morphemes,
words
and
phrases.
Sentence
and
article
constitute
of
the
hierarchy
system.
From
the
perspective
of
the
features
of
language,
language
is
a
tool
of
thinking,
or
a
tool
for
communication. In a broad sense,
culture is created by human in the process of
social and
historical
development
of the sum
total
of material wealth and
spiritual
wealth. From the
narrow sense, cultural is knowledge
system from human cultural values. Early in the 20
s of
this century, American linguist
in his
in An Introduction to
Modern Linguistics “language is the history of the
history and culture
of
coord
inate,
they
can
help
and
inspiration
to
each
other.”
The
relationship
between
language and culture is roughly divided
into four points:
2.1 Language is a
very important part of culture.
Mainly
because
of
the
language
have
the
characteristics
of
the
culture.
Firstly,
language
is
not
like
biological
genetic,
but
what
they
learn
in
the
future,
like
culture.
Secondly,
culture
is
the
common
wealth,
ethical
languages
too.
Thirdly,
from
the
perspective of the connotation of
culture, language includes the human material
wealth and
spiritual wealth. Language
is the human created a kind of spiritual wealth in
the process of
its
evolution
is
a part of culture, both
as a unique human society.
G?del’s once said:
society's
language
is
one
aspect
of
the
culture
of
the
society.
The
relationship
between
language and culture is part and
whole.
books,
so
the
wide-ranging
reading
plays
a
very
important
role
in
improving
listening
comprehension.
It
not
only
can
enlarge
your
field
of
vision,
increase
your
knowledge,
enliven your way
of thinking, strengthen language sense, but also
have a great advantage of
expanding
vocabulary.
It is very important for
all listeners.
Few reading will lead to
poor
knowledge,
which
makes
rigid
way
of
thinking
and
low
ability
of
judging,
summing
up,
inferring and
forecasting. Language as a part of culture, its
particularity displays in: it is the
important tool of learning culture,
people in the study and application of the whole
process
of developing culture.
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Chinese and Western Culture Differences in
Learning English Language
2.2 Language reflects the culture of a
nation.
Through the language of a
nation people can understand that the national
customs, life
style
and
thinking
characteristics
of
cultural
characteristics.
For
example,
in
two
lines
to
parent’s
brothers and
sisters the appellation the performance forms of
the language, there
are
big
differences
in
English
and
Chinese.
In
English,
only
uncle,
aunt
two
words,
in
Chinese, there are “bo, shu, gu, jiu,
yi” not to mix. This phenomenon reflects the
Chi
nese
clan concept and the
characteristics of the patriarchal culture.
Language as a part of culture,
its
particularity
displays
in:
it
is
the
important
tool
of
learning
culture;
people
own
the
whole
culture in the study and application.
2.3 Language and cultural happened at
the same time.
Language is
the premise of cultural formation and development,
cultural development
also promoted the
development of the language is rich, the language
own up, people have
culture. Language
is the important symbols from people and animal.
Human created culture
in
language,
and
in
turn,
culture
affects
the
human,
cause
humans
to
greater
progress.
Human
language
is
the
language
of
human
society,
it
has
many
close
relationship
，
with
human society and human culture
2.4. Language is a tool of
thinking, and the composition of the
culture
without thinking.
As the tool of thinking, language
affects and restricts the way, the scope and depth
of
thinking.
However,
when
thinking
development
to
a
certain
degree,
language
form
can't
meet
their
needs
or
hinder
its
development,
people
will
consciously
or
unconsciously
transformation
thinking tool, to make language change, in this
sense, thinking is influences
and
restricts the language.
2.5
Different language have different useful because
of the different
culture background.
For example, when people
meet at the special place, they also ask “are you
eat?” when
they meet at restaurant or
“which book have you read” when they meet at
library. But the
western people only
say “hello”
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Western Culture Differences in Learning English
Language
In the United
States, to invite others is equivalent to borrow
someone else time, so
around
the
In
China,
to
invite
others
to
activity
is
considered
to
be
the
sacrifice of their own
time or give others face
Chapter 3 The influence of English
learning between the difference
of Chinese and
western countries
Different
nations
of
language
are
different
culture.
We
must
attach
importance
to
culture,
can
eliminate
the
different
between
languages,
so
as
to
truly
achieve
the
goal
of
cultural
communication.
It
includes
ethnic
customs,
political
and
cultural
differences,
religious beliefs, social life and
geographic regional differences.
3.1.
The influence of ethnic customs difference to the
English learning
Customs is people to
communicate with you in our daily life.
Language is different
due to people different live
environment.
Chinese is
also like that. Chinese people emphasis on eating,
eating problem has long
been
particularly
concerned
about
people
,so
this
topic
has
become
one
of
the
favorite
discussion topic.
People always polite to say “are you eat?” when
they meeting. Most of the
Chinese
people all know eating or not eating are not
important, just greet, but if you ask the
British people “are you eat?” His first
reaction is
s going to invite me to
have a meal?
In fact, the Chinese ask
ate when you meet is the same meaning as British
people always
ask the weather good
today. But just according to their customs to
foreign communication
could make each
other off.
Chinese
people
hear
praise
from
others
always
say
“where,
where!”
or
“No,
no!”
It
makes
westerners
feel
puzzling.
In
the
west,
they
will
gladly
accept
your
praise
and
say
“thank
you”.
In
addition,
Chinese
people
think
married,
celebrate
birthday
and
the
old
man
died
all
is
joyous
occasion.
For
westerners,
married,
celebrate
the
birthday
is
happy
things for granted, English called
festivals “red
-
letter
day”, but they don't understand the
old
man
died,
in
our
national
customs,
physical
laws
of
nature,
the
old
man
a
lifetime
without
accident
is
a
joyous
occasion.
So
western
people
think
this
is
China's
special
personality.
It
is
no
doubt
that
it
is
a
tradition
to
use
chopsticks
for
Chinese.
But
people
in
America
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Chinese and Western Culture Differences in
Learning English Language
prefer
to
forks
and
knives.
This
different
result
is
based
on
different
food
they
like .Americans
choose
to
eat
beefsteak,
bread,
and
salad,
while
Chinese
people
choose
noodles, pancakes and
rice. What is more, the custom of drinking tea in
China and drinking
coffee in America
are stand out particularly. However, there is a
trend that the food in both
countries
has been mixture. For example, the coffee and
bread have introduced to
China.
The famous KFC is very popular at
children.
People on the earthare
homologous,but different people in different place
，
performan
ce on
the way of thinking. Differences between Chinese
and Western way of thinking reflec
ted
in many as the difference between abstract and
concrete, reflected in their
attitudes
towards life can be understood as Westernersare
more practical, and the Chinese ar
e
much more biased towards some spiritual
experience. Westerners pay attention to logical
t
hinking, but Chinese pay more
attention to dialectical thinking and so on. As
Chinese and w
estern way of thinking are
example,we can see the names of western style are
not likeours,they put their
given names at the first place,while we
put them afear our famil
y names,that is
to say,we regard our family more important than
ourselves,and it's
the way
of eastern ners have another way of
thinking,they think that each person is
i
mportant in our world and society,and
a person should play a important role among our
hum
an beings.
3.2 Political
differences on the impact of learning English
Westerners have insisted
that the
have
a
similar
place.
For
example,
In
Greek
philosophers,
Plato,
pay
attention
to
the
cultivation
of
individual
moral
character.
Plato believed
that
a
man
of noble
should
have
good moral character,
but also constantly learning, to master the
mathematical knowledge,
cultivate noble
hobby, and finally have a strong body. Plato
thought that man can bear the
responsibilities of managers in the
city state. People should improve themselves at
first, and
then to run the country;
it is the same as Chinese philosopher
of cultivate one's morality,
terms,
governing the country and the world.
3.3 The influence of religious beliefs
different to the English learning
Most
westerners
believe
in
Christianity,
think
god
created
everything
and
everyt
hing
in
the
world
is
god
arrangement,
And
Christianity
in
the
history
of
western
do
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