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1、TheRoleofCulturalBackgroundinEnglishLearningAbstractWhatdoestheculturereferto？EugeneA.Nidamaintainsthatcultureincludeseverythingandbelongstobothmaterialcultureandmentalculture.Hedefinesthemeaningoflanguagecultureasfivepartsasfollows：1.Ecologyculture;2.Materialculture；3.Socialcul
2、ture;4.Religiousculture;5.Linguisticculture.Wecanseethatthefivepartsnaturallyincludebothmaterialandmentality.Moreover,theNewworldencyclopediapublishedinAmericain1974givesthedefinitionofculture:Itisthetotalityofthespiritual，intellectual，andartisticattitudessharedbyagroup，includin
3、gitstradition,habits,socialcustoms,morals,lawsandsocialrelations.Exactly,ifweonlyunderstandthesocialcultureinonelanguage,whoeverhastheabilitytogetalongwellwiththetranslation?Besides,TanZaixistates:“theunderstandingintranslationtothesourcemeaningisfarfromthepureunderstandingofthe
4、language.”(谢建国,2005:159)NowonderthereisasayinginEnglish:Learningalanguageisakindoflearningthecultureandhabitofthecountrieswherethelanguageisspoken.Soaccordingtothesefamousstatements,weknowthatthetranslationcannotlosetouchwiththecultureatall.Keywords:culturalconflicts,cross-commu
5、nication,translation,Ⅰ.IntroductionCultureingeneralincludingdifferentbeliefs,concepts,customs,andsocialbehaviorsispermeatedintomanyareasofsocialindividuals.Languageisthecarrierofculture,theyareinseparable.Languageisnotjustasetofsymbolsystem.People'sverbalexpressionisbasicallyinf
6、luencedbylanguagebasedonsocietyorcommunity,lifestyle,behavior,andvalues,modesofthinking,religionandsoon.Learningalanguageisnotonlyfamiliarwithlinguisticstructure,butalsoistounderstandthefunctionsoftheculturalbackground.Inordertowidenone’sculturaleyesightandenrichknowledgeofcultu
7、re,itisnecessarytoconnectlanguagewithculture.However,lackoftheseskillsmaycausecommunicationbarriersindifferentlanguagegroups.ThepurposeofthispaperistodiscusstheimportanceofunderstandingtheculturalbackgroundoftheEnglish-speakingcountriesinculturaltradition,culturalmentality,local
8、conditionsandcustoms,historyandgeography,andpro
