《語言與文化》

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語言與文化 內容簡介

《語言與文化》為本叢書之一，出版於1998年，是一部從語言學、社會學、人類學等角度，介紹語言與文化關係的導論性著作。作者C・克拉姆契（Claire Kramsch）是美國加州伯克利大學德語以及外語習得專業的著名教授。本書的主體（概述部分）分為七章。

語言與文化 本書目錄

Contents
Preface
SECTION 1
Survey
1 The relationship of language and culture
1Nature,culture,language
2Communities of language users
3Imagined communities
4Insiders/outsiders
5Linguistic relativity
6The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
7Summary
2 Meaning as sign
8The linguistic sign
9The meaning of sings
10Cultural encodings
11Semantic cohesion
12The non-arbitrary nature of sings
13Symbols
14Summary

語言與文化 文章節選

Language can mean in two fundamental ways,both of which are intimately linked to culture:through what it says or what it refers to as an encoded sign (semantics),and through what it does as an action in context (pragmatics).We consider in this chapter how language means as an encoded sign .p15