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What is the relation between the code and culture which creates it, and whic
What is the relation between the code and culture which creates it, and whic
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2024-02-23
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What is the relation between the code and culture which creates it, and which it transmits to the next generation? ~Linguists in the anthropological tradition had tried to establish links with meanings expressed lexically: Eskimo words for ’snow’, Arabic words for ’camel’ and so on. Yet vocabulary only ’reflects’ culture by courtesy of its internal organization as a whole; and the assertion that "because ’camels’ are important to the Arabs, therefore they have a lot of different words for ’them’ "is a statement as much about English as about Arabic. Presumably nothing is more important than rice to the Chinese; yet Chinese has a single word for rice and it means various other things besides. Chinese happens to be a type of language that favors general nouns.
As the essential medium for people to organize and convey their ideas, language is no longer what it seemed to be for the traditional linguists who used to think of language as simple for mal codes. It is also closely related to the context, social or anthropological, in which the communication takes place. Today most linguists come to realize that language is an important component of culture. It determines not only tile form in which ideas are transmitted, but also the method with which the content of the ideas are organized. In this perspective, language is also a communicative base on which members of a speech community form their ideas in a way that is readily comprehensible to other members of that community. It is also regarded as part of culture that is related to other fields of humanity(人类)studies.
But what is merely cornic(滑稽)when applied to lexics(词汇学)becomes seriously misleading when applied to grammar. As Whorf pointed 50 years ago, it is naive and dangerous to take isolated grammatical phenomena and try to relate them to features of a culture. When linguists recognized this, their response was to avoid the language/culture issue altogether, thus closing the door on an important area of research. That there is a relationship between a code and the culture that engenders(造成)it is beyond question; but it is an extremely complex and abstract one. [br] From the Arabic words for ’camel’ and the Eskimo words for ’snow’, we can infer that ______.
选项
A、language may reflect living conditions
B、different languages may have the same origin
C、people enjoy different things in different cultures
D、language can be used to show people’s versatility
答案
A
解析
推理判断题。根据第一段第二句,骆驼对阿拉伯人很重要,可以推断出阿拉伯人在生活中离不开骆驼;而爱斯基摩人生活的环境就是冰天雪地。由此可知语言可以反映生活条件。
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