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1、中英思维与语言比较TheRelationbetweenThoughtandLanguageTheopinionsvaryontherelationshipbetweenlanguageandthoughtalthoughthestudiesonithavebeenlastedforover2000years.Tosumup,therearefiveparlances,i.e.theoryofequationoflanguageandthought,languagedeterminism,andthought
2、determinism,independentlanguage-thoughttheory,andseparate-combinativetheory.Theoryofequationoflanguageandthought:Languageandthoughtaretwonamesofthesamething.Theyareproducedsimultaneously,inwhichthoughtissilentlanguage,andlanguageisthevoicedthought.Determin
3、ism:Languagecharacteristicsplayadeterminedroleintheprocessofcognition.Languageisthebasisofthought,andvariouslanguagesleadtovariousthoughtandworldoutlook.Thoughtdeterminism:Thoughtexistsbeforelanguage;thecategoryofthoughtdeterminesthatoflanguage.Itisthought
4、thatfirstcomesintohuman'smind,andthenpeoplecanspeakitoutbymeansofappropriatewordsorothersymbols.Independentlanguage-thoughttheory:Languageandthoughtarerelativelyindependent.Therearevariouskindsofknowledgeinhumanworld,andtheprocessofacquiringnaturallanguage
5、isuniquewhichisrestrictedtospecialtheories,principlesandrules.Whereas,theotherknowledgeisacquiredthroughobservation,generalizationandconditionedreflex,etc.Manyexamplescanprovetheexistenceofthoughtsystemswhichisindependentoflanguage.Separate-combinativetheo
6、ry:Bothlanguageandthoughthaveitsseparatesource.Fromtheperspectiveofpolygeneticdevelopment,differentlanguageandthoughtholddifferentgeneticsource;meanwhile,theirdevelopmentisnotparallel,whosedevelopmentcurveoftenintersect.Intermsofdevelopmentofindividuals,th
7、edevelopmentofthoughtandlanguageentersastageofconcourse(合流)andformanewkindofbehaviorpatternonlywhenthebabygrowstoagetwo.Inaword,languageandthoughthavedifferentsourceandtheycombineatlatertime.1.Sapir-WhorfHypothesisSapir-WhorfHypothesis,putforwardbytheAmeri
8、canlinguistsEdwardSapirandBenjaminLeeWhorf,isamould(铸)theoryoflanguage.Thishypothesisiswidelyquotedanddiscussedininterculturalcommunicationfield.Sapir(1929)arguedinaclassicpassagethat:...Itisquiteanillusionto
