浅析中西方文化差异英语学习的影响本科学位论文.doc

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：2014年5月20日 　

吉林农业科技学院

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: 1009603206206
Tutor： Fan Kewei 　　　　　　　　　　　
Date： 05/ 20/2014

An Brief Analysis on Strategies of Eliminating Listening Comprehension Obstacles for English Learners

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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

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

Content
摘 要 I
Abstract II
Content III
Chapter 1 Introduction 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 9
3.5 The influence of the geographical regional differences in English learning . 10
3.6 The historical allusion differences to English learning 11
Conclusion 12
Bibliography 13
Acknowledgement 15

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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 Crosscultural 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.

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 E.Sapir in his "Language" (Language) (1921) pointed out: "Language is something behind, and the Language can't leave culture." Linguist Palmer said in An Introduction to Modern Linguistics “language is the history of the history and culture of 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 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. Gödel’s once said: "a society's 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, 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.
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 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 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”
　　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

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 "he is 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 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 ， performance on the way of thinking. Differences between Chinese and Western way of thinking reflected in many aspects.Such as the difference between abstract and concrete, reflected in their attitudes towards life can be understood as Westernersare more practical, and the Chinese are much more 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 way of thinking are different.For 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 family names,that is to say,we regard our family more important than ourselves,and it's  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 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 everything in the world is god arrangement, And Christianity in the history of western dominance, the monarch's power is simply listening to the church. In China, there are not many people have religious beliefs, most also is Buddhism. People always have read is “bodhisattva” or “Laotianye”, it will make a great difference between god and Laotianye, represented by the different too. Chinese people regard ourselves as descendants as descendants of the Dragon.Chinese have a supreme respect for the dragon, we think dragon is a symbol of our nation. In the dynasty time, Chinese emperors generally self-styled “dragon”. However, in the west, the dragon was regarded as devil, and it was killed by the legendary god. For this reason when the student describes a person’s lively, they say "He/She is full of vim and vigor." not”He / She is as lively as a dragon and tiger". Everyone has their favorite color, so does a contrary and a nation. Chinese like the red color, because Chinese think red is a symbol of luck and enthusiasm. But westers prefer to the blue color, they think blue can make themselves calm. Thus, different color has different meanings the r