无处不在的“模因”

Ubiquitous “Memetics”

模因论是基于达尔文的进化论思想解释文化进化规律的一种新理论。理查德.道金斯1976年出版的《自私的基因》中,首次提出"模因"这一概念。作为文化基因,模因靠复制、传播得以生存。语言本身也可能成为模因,所以我们可以利用这一特性,结合成功模因应具备的特征,把模因论应用在外语教学中。

Memetics is a new theory based on Darwin's theory of evolution to explain culture evolution. In 1976 The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins first put forward the word 'meme'. As 'culture gene', meme lives on copying and spreading. Language is also a kind of meme, so we can exploit this feature combining characters of succeed meme to apply Memetics into foreign language teaching.