本章重点是文化的含义和特点、语言和文化的关系、语言教学与文化等。本章难点是语言与文化的关系—萨丕尔－沃尔夫假说。通过本单元的学习，重点掌握句子的萨丕尔－沃尔夫假说以及语言教学和文化的关系并完成课后相关练习。

Chapter 10 Language and culture

What is culture?

Culture is multidimensional, complex and all-pervasive.

Characteristics of culture

Learnability

Codifiability

Transmittability

Changeability

Ethnocentrism

How is language related to culture?

Language and culture are closely related to and dependent on each other throughout history of civilization.

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: Determinism and relativism

Are linguistic meanings universal?--Word meaning may vary in certain aspects from culture to culture.

The ethnography of communication: Hymes takes all the factors that are involved in communication into account. He uses the acronym SPEAKING to represent all the relevant factors.

Cultural aspect of language teaching and learning

A foreign language learner not only to learn the linguistic knowledge of the target language, but also to pay much attention to developing his cultural awareness, cultural sensitivity and cultural competence in his study of the target language.

学习了这些内容后，相信大家对语言和文化有了更深入的了解，这将有利于大家今后的英语的学习。

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