《英汉语言文化学》一书是对语言、文化进行跨学科的综合研究。它着重探讨语言与文化之间的关系，讨论语言交际与文化，文化因素与外语教学，语用与文化差异等。它倡导学生运用定量、定性的分析手段和方法，从具体语料出发，对诸如跨文化阅读、跨文化交际等进行客观的、科学的比较研究，探讨语言与文化的内在联系，以及文化与语言之间的相互影响，使学生们能够应对全球经济一体化和中国加入WTO后他们所面临的各种文化冲击，提高他们跨文化交际的水平和应变能力。

Unit 1 a brief survey

1. A Brief Survey

 1.1 Introduction

 1.2 Language studies

 1.3 Cultural studies and language learning

 1.4 An outline of the book

Unit 2 language and culture

2. Language and Culture

 2.1 Language origin and language families

 2.2 Culture

 2.3 Relationship between language and culture

 2.4 Summary

Unit 3 word and its meanings

3. Word and Its Meanings

 3.1 Word meanings

 3.2 Semantic differences

 3.3 Summary

Unit 4 word and word

4. Word and Word Structure

 4.1 Word components

 4.2 Lexical deviations

 4.3 Summary

Unit 5 syntactic structure

5. Syntactic Structure

 5.1 Phrase structure rules and transformational rules

 5.2 Syntactic differences

 5.3 Syntactical deviations

 5.4 Summary

Unit 6 discourse

6. Discourse

 6.1 Contexts

 6.2 Acts

 6.3 Felicity conditions

 6.4 Discourse structure

 6.5 Differences in written discourses

 6.6 Textual deviations

 6.7 Summary

Unit 7 Oral discourse

7. Oral Discourse

 7. 1 Conversation

 7.2 Differences in oral discourses

 7.3 Summary

Unit 8 Language acquisition

8. Language Acquisition

 8.1 Different views

 8.2 Features of the brain

 8.3 Aphasia

 8.4 Children's language development

 8.5 Language processing

 8.6 Summary

Unit 9 Teaching and learning of language and culture

9. Teaching and Learning of Language

 and Culture

 9.1 A brief survey

 9.2 Grammar-translation methods

 9.3 Direct method

 9.4 Audio-lingual method

 9.5 Communicative approach

 9.6 A Psycholinguistic teaching approach

 9.7 Language-based approach

 9.8 Culture teaching and learning

 9.9 Summary

Unit 10 Nonlinguistic communication

10. Nonlinguistic Communication

 10.1 Nonlinguistic communication

 10.2 Affinity between nonlinguistic communicative phenomena and language

 10.3 Features of kinesics

 10.4 Summary

Unit 11 correctness and appropriateness

11. Correctness and Appropriateness

 11.1 Prescriptive and descriptive

 11.2 Appropriateness

 11.3 Contexts and references

 11.4 Cultural contexts

 11.5 Summary

Unit 12 communication and inter-cultural communication

12. Communication and Intercultural Communication

 12.1 Communications

 12.2 Communication through concrete signs

 12.3 Communication through abstract signs

 12.4 Communication by means of imagistic signs

 12.5 Communication by means of illusive signs

 12.6 Comprehensive use of the communicative modes

 12.7 Culture, language and inter cultural communication

 12.8 Summary

Unit 13 Cultural differences

13. Cultural Differences

 13.1 Different features of cultures

 13.2 Different features

 13.3 Differences in other aspects\\

 13.4 Summary

Unit 14 Schemata,image and culture

14. Schemata,Image and Culture

 14. 1 Definitions of schema

 14.2 Categories of schemata and their main properties

 14.3 Reading and schemata

 14.4 Schemata and mental images

 14.5 Schemata and readability

 14.6 Schemata, education and culture

 14.7 Summary

Unit 15 metaphor,language and culture

15. Metaphor,Language and Culture

 15.1 Metaphor and concepts

 15.2 Definition of metaphors

 15.3 Metaphor and simile

 15.4 Metaphor and metonymy

 15.5 Cross-cultural differences between metaphors and metaphor interpretation

 15.6 Metaphor processing

 15.7 Interpreting Metaphors by Sylvia Plath

 15.8 Summary

Unit 16 researching language and culture:A qualitative analysis for culture awareness

16. Researching Language and Culture： A qualitative analysis for culture awareness

 16.1 Introduction

 16.2 Questionnaire design and its purpose

 16.3 Data analysis

 16.4 Literary allusions

 16.5 The subjects' familiarity with literary figures

 16.6 Symbolic meanings of words connoted by their original cultures

 16.7 The indications of the menu

 16.8 Summary

Charts

Sample Questionnaire