【摘要】 系统探究语言、思维与中西文化比较这一主题,其理论基础是萨皮尔-沃尔夫假设。以英、汉两种语言的形式和表达习惯为切入点,详尽分析两种语言对各自使用者思维的制约与影响,进一步印证了萨皮尔-沃尔夫假设有关语言决定思维并影响思维的基本结论。在深入探讨语言、思维及文化密切关系的基础上,认为语言差异是文化差别的归因点,因此,深入的语言比较应是各类文化比较的始点。更多还原

【Abstract】 Grounded in Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis,this paper conduct a systematic research on the inner-relatedness between languages,thinking and the comparative studies of Chinese and western cultures.By analyzing the restraints and impacts of Chinese and English languages upon their users’ thinking mode through contrastive analyses of form and habitual expressions of the two languages,the writers prove the basic conclusion made in the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis further that language determines thinking and affects thinking.With regard to the underlined relationship between languages,thinking and cultures,the paper claims that differences in languages are the contributing factors of differences in cultures and therefore,studies of cultural differences should begin with a detailed study of language differences.更多还原