语言的社会文化属性

Language Being Societal and Cultural

语言是一种强有力的社会行为,同时又体现文化,是文化的编码手段之一。在交际活动中,语言除了传达全社会共同使用的词汇意义和语法意义之外,还会由于具体的语境传达某些特殊信息,这在特定的语言社团中有其共同规律,因而也是一种社会现象。了解语言的社会文化属性,从社会文化中习得或学得言语技巧和交际策略无论对二语学习或跨文化交际都有着重要的作用。

Language is a forceful societal behavior. It embodies culture and is one of the coding measures of culture. In communicative activities, besides conveying the lexical meaning and grammatical meaning that is put into common use in the whole society, language implies certain specific information in different concrete contexts. It is a societal phenomenon for it has common rules in specific language groups. It has much effect to acquire or learn language techniques and communicative strategies for SLL or cross-cultural communication.