1、 吉 林 农 业 科 技 学 院学 士 学 位 论 文论 文 题 目：浅析中西方文化差异对英语学习的影响 年 级 专 业：10 级英语本科 2 班 学 生 姓 名： 学 号：1009603206 指 导 教 师： 评 阅 教 师： 完 成 日 期：2014 年 5 月 20 日 吉林农业科技学院Jilin Agricultural Science and Technology UniversityThesis for Bachelors DegreeTitle: Analyzing the influence of Chinese and western culture differences
2、 in learning English language Major：English Name： Number: 1009603206206 Tutor： Date： 05/ 20/2014 Analyzing the Influence of Chinese and Western Culture Differences in Learning English Language 0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
3、讳等。关键词：中西方；文化；差异；英语；学生 Analyzing the Influence of Chinese and Western Culture Differences in Learning English Language 1AbstractThis paper probes into the difference between Chinese and Western countries which influence our English learning, analyzing such elements as ethnic customs, political and c
4、ultural 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; learningContent摘 要 .IAnalyzing the Influence of
5、Chinese and Western Culture Differences in Learning English Language 2Abstract.IIContent.IIIChapter 1 Introduction .1Chapter 2 The relationship between language and culture .22.1 Language is a very important part of culture.22.2 Language reflects the culture of a nation.32.3 Language and cultural ha
6、ppened at the same time. .32.4. Language is a tool of thinking, and the composition of the culture without thinking. .32.5 Different language have different useful because of the different culture background.3Chapter 3 The influence of English learning between the difference of Chinese and western c
7、ountries .43.1. The influence of ethnic customs difference to the English learning.43.2 Political differences on the impact of learning English .53.3 The influence of religious beliefs different to the English learning .53.4 The differences of social life impact on English learning .73.4.1 Different
8、 values.83.4.2 Different in Wine .93.4.3 Different in Wedding .93.5 The influence of the geographical regional differences in English learning . .103.6 The historical allusion differences to English learning.11Conclusion .12Bibliography .13Acknowledgement .15Analyzing the Influence of Chinese and We
9、stern Culture Differences in Learning English Language 3Chapter 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
10、 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 peo
11、ple 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 weste
12、rn 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
13、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 differe
14、nt 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.Chapter 2 The relationship between language and cultureLanguage and culture has a close relationship. From the perspective of the institutional Anal
15、yzing the Influence of Chinese and Western Culture Differences in Learning English Language 4features 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 l
16、anguage, 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 va
17、lues. Early in the 20 s of this century, American linguist E.Sapir in his “Language“ (Language) (1921) pointed out: “Language is something behind, and the Language cant leave culture.“ Linguist Palmer said in An Introduction to Modern Linguistics “language is the history of the history and culture o
18、f coordinate, 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 biolog
19、ical 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 spiritu
20、al wealth in the process of its evolution is a part of culture, both as a unique human society. Gdels once said: “a societys language is one aspect of the culture of the society. The relationship between language and culture is part and whole.“ The obtainment of knowledge is mainly based on books, s
21、o 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 f
22、or 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 applicat
23、ion of the whole process of developing culture.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 parents brothers and siste
24、rs the appellation the performance forms of the language, there are Analyzing the Influence of Chinese and Western Culture Differences in Learning English Language 5big differences in English and Chinese. In English, only uncle, aunt two words, in Chinese, there are “bo, shu, gu, jiu, yi” not to mix
25、. This phenomenon reflects the Chinese 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 happ
26、ened 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
27、 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
28、, language affects and restricts the way, the scope and depth of thinking. However, when thinking development to a certain degree, language form cant meet their needs or hinder its development, people will consciously or unconsciously transformation thinking tool, to make language change, in this se
29、nse, 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
30、 at library. But the western people only say “hello”In the United States, to invite others is equivalent to borrow someone else time, so “invited“ around the “time“. In China, to invite others to activity is considered to be the sacrifice of their own time or give others face Analyzing the Influence
31、 of Chinese and Western Culture Differences in Learning English Language 6Chapter 3 The influence of English learning between the difference of Chinese and western countriesDifferent nations of language are different culture. We must attach importance to culture, can eliminate the different between
32、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 learningCustoms is people to communi
33、cate 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 alway
34、s 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 “he is going to invite me to have a meal?“ In fact, the Chinese ask ate when you meet is th
35、e 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 a
36、ccept 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 dont understand the old
37、 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 Chinas special personality.It is no doubt that it is a tradition to use chopsticks for Chinese. But people in America prefer to forks and knives.
38、 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 t
39、rend that the food in both countries has been Analyzing the Influence of Chinese and Western Culture Differences in Learning English Language 7mixture. For example, the coffee and bread have introduced to China. The famous KFC is very popular at children.People on the earthare homologous,but differe
40、nt people in different place ， performance on the way of thinking. Differences between Chinese and Western way of thinking reflectedin many aspects.Such as the difference between abstract and concrete, reflected in their attitudes towards life can be understood as Westernersare more practical, and t
41、he Chinese are muchmore biased towards some spiritual experience. Westerners pay attention to logical thinking, but Chinese pay more attention to dialectical thinking and so on. As Chinese and western wayof thinking are different.For example,we can see the names of western style are not likeours,the
42、y put their given names at the first place,while we put them afear our family names,that is to say,we regard our family more important than ourselves,and its the way of eastern thinking.Westerners have another way of thinking,they think that each person is important in our world and society,and a person should play a important role among our human beings.3.2 Political differences on the impact of learning English Westerners have insisted that the “body“, the Chinese emphasis on “heart“, but they all have a similar place. For example, In Greek
