语言是一种文化。而作为文化,与除了语言之外的文化之间也是有着密切的关系的。这里所说的文化的概念并非是人们通常所指的文学艺术等那种经过提炼升华过的文化,而是指那种广义的父传子、子传孙的具有民族性的传承行为及其思维模式。这种对文化的认识,已经成为当今语言学或人类社会学领域的共识。这种意义上的文化差异在我们的日常生活中不胜枚举。就中日饮食文化而言,日语中有关鱼类名称的汉 Language is a culture. And as a culture, there is also a close relationship with cultures other than languages. The concept of culture here is not the kind of refined and sublimated culture such as the literary arts that people usually refer to but the broadly inherited father and son’s inheritance and thinking mode. This understanding of culture has become the consensus of today’s linguistics or human sociology. The cultural differences in this sense are numerous in our daily life. In terms of Chinese and Japanese food culture, the name of the fish in Japanese Han