Language and intercultural communication
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Outline
What’s language? Language and culture
Language and thought culture and word meaning Language and society
Communication is the swimming motion, language is the swimming skill, and Culture is water. Without language, communication would remain to a very limited degree (in very shallow water); Without culture, there would be no communication at all.
Mastering all those rules of language，such as phonology（语音体系）, morphology（词态学）, syntax（句法学） and semantics（语义学）, is still not enough for effective communication, for language and culture cannot be separated. They are intertwined缠结, shaping each other.
Semantics: the study of meaning
Pragmatics: how contexts affect meaning
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Verbal Intercultural
Language and culturCeommunication
Verbal intercultural communication
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meaning from one person to another.
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relationship between language and culture
Language is flesh, and culture is blood. Without culture, language would be dead; without
language, culture would have no shape.
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Characteristics of Language
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Characteristics of Language
• Language is symbolic Recount experience/ represent abstract idea • Language is rule-governed • Language is subjective • Language is dynamic and has its own life
Verbal intercultural communication happens when people from different cultural backgrounds communicate with each other by using language.
Relationship between language and culture
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Structure of human language
Morphology: the study of words and word building
Phonology: the study of the sounds pattern
Syntax: the study of structure of sentences
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When we talk about languages, we are usually talking
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