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1、AStudyofKinshipTermsBetweenChineseandEnglishinCrossCultureKinreferstoone'sfamilyandrelatives.Kinshipisanimportantaspectofthecomplexsystemofculture,anditisarelationshipbetweenanyentitiesthatshareagenealogicalorigin,throughbiological,cultural,orhistoricaldescent.
2、Itisthemostbasicprincipleoforganizingindividualsintosocialgroups,roles,categoriesandgenealogy.Someformoforganizationbasedonparentageandmarriageispresentineveryhumansociety.Kinshiptermsystemreferstoallkinshiptermsandtheirrelationships---inabroadsense,itisthelang
3、uage-culturesystemofallkinshiptermsinhumansocieties;inanarrowsense,itrefersinparticulartothelanguage-culturesystemofsomespecifickinshiptermsinthosesocieties,suchasChinesekinshipsystemandEnglishkinshipsystem.TherearemanydifferencesbetweenChineseandEnglishinkinsh
4、ipterms,TheChineselanguagehasmanyprecisetermsfordescribingfamilyandotherrelationships.Chinesespeakersdistinguishbetweenrelativesonthemothersideofthefamilyfromthoseonthefathersideandusedifferenttermstorefertorelativesoneachsideofthefamily.Chinesespeakersusespeci
5、fictermstoaddresstheirfamilymembersandeachnamecontainsthemeaningofthepreciserelationshipbetweenthespeakerandthepersonbeingaddressed.TheEnglishareonthecontrary,theydonotusuallypaysomuchattentiononthis.Hereisanexample,inChinese,tangxiong/di/jie/meiwiththelabel"ta
6、ng"arethechildrenoffather'sbrothers,whiletherestwiththelabel"biao"arechildrenoffather'ssisters'andmother'sbrothers'andsisters."tang”inChineseliterallymeans"themainpartofahousewherethefamilygettogether",whilebiaomeans”surface,outsideordistant".Thedifferencesbetw
7、een"tang"and"biao"aredifferentinChinesekinshipterms,becauseinChinatherearedistinctionsbetweentherelativesattachedtothemaleandthefemalerelatives.Thus,Son'ssonordaughteraresunzi/nv,whiledaughter'ssonordaughterwaisunxi/nv;father'sparentsarezufu/muwhilemother'spare
8、ntsarewaizufu/mu.wai,whichhasthesamemeaningasbiao,isoneofthemarkstodistinguishthekinrelationsattachedtothemaleandthefemale.Incontrast,thereisonlyoneterm"cousin"torefertothek
