《语言与文化》为本丛书之一，出版于1998年，是一部从语言学、社会学、人类学等角度，介绍语言与文化关系的导论性著作。作者C·克拉姆契（Claire Kramsch）是美国加州伯克利大学德语以及外语习得专业的著名教授。本书的主体（概述部分）分为七章。

Contents

Preface

SECTION 1

Survey

1 The relationship of language and culture

1Nature,culture,language

2Communities of language users

3Imagined communities

4Insiders/outsiders

5Linguistic relativity

6The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

7Summary

2 Meaning as sign

8The linguistic sign

9The meaning of sings

10Cultural encodings

11Semantic cohesion

12The non-arbitrary nature of sings

13Symbols

14Summary

Language can mean in two fundamental ways,both of which are intimately linked to culture:through what it says or what it refers to as an encoded sign (semantics),and through what it does as an action in context (pragmatics).We consider in this chapter how language means as an encoded sign .p15