CULTURAL DIFFERENTIATION AND LANGUAGE MISINTERPRETATION——A Case Study of Chinese English Learner’s Comprehension of Some English Expressions

摘要

I.INTRODUCTIONLanguage,as the specific legacy of a givenculture and society,is replete with a constellationof culture-bound linguistic items.The develop-ment of language is an extremely complicated pro-cess involving many sub-cultrual factors such asmaterial culture,social culture,religious cultureand linguistic culture.Poreign language learning,as a dynamic and conscious movement from thesource language to the target language,will theo-