On three different characters between English kinship terms and Chinese kinship term 英语毕业论文

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1、OnthreedifferentcharactersbetweenEnglishkinshiptermsandChinesekinshiptermIntroductionLanguageisthecarrierandcontainerofculture,whichisinfluencedandshapedbyculture,andsimultaneouslyreflectsculture.[1]P7Beinganintegralpartoflanguagelexicon,thekinshiptermsisdeeplyembeddedincultureandalsodirectlyreflec

2、tculture.Kinshiptermsrefertoterminologieswhichtakeoneasthecentertodefiniterelatives’relationshipwithoneself.[2]P79Theirmainresourcesareblood,marriageandlaw.Generally,kinshiptermsareclassifiedintofourseries:paternalside,maternalside,sideofhusbandandsideofwife.Owingtodifferentlanguagesandsocialbackgr

3、ounds,differentnationshaveproduceddifferentkinshipsystems.Itlogicallyfollowsthatvariedkinshiptermscomeintobeing.ThispapermainlyfocusesonthreedifferentcharactersbetweenEnglishkinshiptermsandChinesekinshipterms.Bycontrastivestudy,thethreedifferencesrespectivelyincomplexity,stresspointandthedistinctio

4、nofrelationshiparepresented.Bythecomparison,theculturaldifferencesbetweenthemareobviouslyobserved.ⅠThecomparisonbetweenEnglishandChinesekinshipterms1.1ComplexityEnglishkinshiptermsbelongtoEskimokinterminologywithatypicalfeatureofsuccinctnessandgenerality.Onthecontrary,ChinesekinshiptermsbelongtoSud

5、anesekinterminology,whichentailscomplexityandspecificity.[3]P145Asthefollowingchartshown:EnglishChineseEnglishChinesefather父亲mother母亲husband丈夫wife妻子son儿子daughter女儿grandfather祖父，外祖父grandmother祖母，外祖母brother哥哥，弟弟sister姐姐，妹妹grandson孙子，外孙granddaughter孙女，外孙女uncle伯，叔，舅，姨夫，姑父aunt伯母，婶母，姑母，舅母，姨母nephew侄子，外甥ni

6、ece侄女，外甥女father-in-law公公，岳父mother-in-law婆婆，岳母8son-in-law女婿daughter-in-law儿媳brother-in-law大伯，小叔，姐夫，妹夫，内兄，内弟sister-in-law大姑，小姑，大姨，小姨，嫂子，弟媳cousin堂哥，堂弟，表兄，表弟cousin堂姐，堂妹，表姐，表妹Inthechartabove,kinshiptermsofthreegenerationsareincluded.ThenumberofEnglishkinshiptermsis23incontrastto58Chinesekinshipterms.[4]

7、P228Therefore,thedifferencebetweenthemisclearlyshown.Englishkinshiptermsarepoorandgeneral.Thedenotationofacertainkinshiptermisnotdesignated.Forexample,theterm“sister”canmeanbotholdersisterandyoungersister.S