信息霸权与语言突围——奥运火炬传递事件对外语文化教学的启示

The Information Hegemony and Linguistic Breakthrough

通过奥运火炬传递事件引发的中西舆论大战,揭示了西方世界利用强势的信息霸权,有意无意地扭曲事实,丑化和敌视中国;并启示我们,学好外语、掌握外语,分析研究中西方文化的差异,有助于我们争取主动,打破西方的信息霸权。从英语文化教学的作用和方法两方面进行简要探讨。

Culture teaching is an indispensable part of foreign language teaching. As the frequency between the Chinese and Western intercultural activity day by day, cases of the cultural conflict had been happened repeatedly because of differences on concept of value, ethics morality and national customs among various countries. This paper, based on the author＇s theoretical study and the latest issue of the2008 Beijing Olympic torchrelay, focuses of both its roles and methods, having taken advantage of some researches in this field of home and overseas scholars＇.