文化在第二语言学习中的作用

Literacy and the second language learner＝文化与第二语言学习 / ed. by Joann Hammadou Sullivan. - Connecticut: Information Age Publishing, 2002
Language as a mirror of cultural

This investigation into cognition and conceptualisation of landscape is based on the lexical inventory of Thimbukushu. Carried out on the basis of semantic methods, the analysis of landscape terminology will make apparent how the Hambukushu conceive their habitat. At the same time, this research provides data to give further evidence regarding the history of the Hambukushu. Each society designs a culture-specific mental arrangement of the natural environment by ignoring or emphasising particular attributes of elements of landscape. Due to the necessity of communicating about everyday needs a society lexicalises those entities that are mostsignificant and most salient. This culture-specific mental arrangement of landscape is considered objective. From an intercultural point of view, however, it is not re