GROUP: 12 1.Tr nh Th H ng T iị ị ồ ươ
2.Tr n Th Nh Ýầ ị ư
3. Phan Th Kim Ngânị
4. Phan H ng Nhungồ
Translation & Culture
Outline:
I. Introduction
1. Definition
2. Cultural categories
II. Body
1. Ecology
2. Material culture
3. Social culture
4. Organizations, customs, activities, procedures, concepts
5. Gestures and habits
III. Conclusion
1. Exercises
2. Suggestions
I. Introduction
1. Definition: There’re 2 ways to define "culture”
1.1 In general: Culture as the deposit of knowledge, experience,
beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, social hierarchies, religion,
notion of time, roles, spatial relationships, concept of the
universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a
group of people in the course of generations through individual
and group striving
1.2 In Translation: Culture is defined as the way of life and its
manifestations that are peculiar to a community that uses a
particular language as its means of expression.
Cultural words are words belong to cultural fields which are
specific to a nation.
2. Cultural categories: including in 5
types:
2.1. Ecology
2.2. Material culture
2.3. Social culture
2.4. Organizations, customs, activities,
procedures, concepts
2.5. Gestures and habits
II. Body
1.Ecology
Geographical features can be normally distinguished from
other cultural terms in that they are usually value- free,
politically and commercially.
Examples:
+ Gió Lào : Hot and dry westerly wind
-wind: generic word
- hot and dry westerly: form
A hot and dry wind often blows from Laos to Central Vietnam