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ELT Journal 2000 54(4):328-334; doi:10.1093/elt/54.4.328
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The relationship between culture and language

Wenying Jiang

Visiting scholar in the Department of Linguistics, University of Luton, England. She has been teaching EFL for nearly 14 years at Taishan Medical College, China. She has an MA in English Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from Qufu Normal University, China. Her particular interests are in teaching culture in foreign language teaching, and cross-cultural communication. Her previous publications include developing cultural awareness and ways of motivating students. She welcomes any comments and research ideas related to this article. Email: wjiang50{at}hotmail.com

This paper discusses the inseparability of culture and language, presents three new metaphors relating to culture and language, and explores cultural content in specific language items through a survey of word associations. The survey was designed for native Chinese speakers (NCS) in Chinese, as well as for native English speakers (NES) in English (see Appendix). The words and expressions associated by NCS convey Chinese culture, and those associated by NES convey English culture. The intimate relationship between language and culture is strikingly illustrated by the survey, which confirms the view that language and culture cannot exist without each other.


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