2011年9月17日 星期六

Chinese language and culture

The Chinese language, which is a communication system used by the Chinese people on a daily basis to meet several goals in life, inevitably leads many features that reflect some of the social beliefs widespread in their culture. Culture can be defined more or less as socially learned patterns of behavior and interpretative practices, what language plays an important role. In fact, the ways in which many words in Chinese idioms, popular proverbs, metaphors and neologisms are widely used among Chinese correspond to cultural beliefs and experiences that have shaped China as a country in the last three millennia.

In addition, the Chinese people, which has been in contact with many foreign cultures and languages throughout history, has also embraced and integrated into their own culture, many ideas and foreign concepts. The structures of neologisms, including many Chinese words of European origin and the system of writing Chinese morpheme-syllable are examined together to show the importance of the meaning of coining neologisms in Chinese. For example, the use of modern Chinese culture representing the culture was adopted from Japanese as it was first widely used in Japan as a lexicon neologized that represents the culture of the European word in the 19th century. In the 19th century the Japanese taken these two Chinese graphemes to create a new Word to translate the European culture word in Japanese. Later, this Japanese word neologized was reintroduced in Chinese or returned to China, to translate the word Europe itself.

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