| Today’s world is a diversified world.As a lingua franca,English is not only a tool for communication between different countries,but also a bridge for communication between various cultures.In cross-cultural communication,we can form an objective and rational understanding of different cultures through the comparison of different cultures.Instead of only focusing on foreign culture,it is essential to build up the confidence of our local culture.In order to help our local culture go abroad,we need to explore the dissemination of Chinese culture from a cross-cultural perspective.By searching the frequency,ways and forms of presentation and collocation of cultural keywords in the senior high school English textbooks and NOW corpus,this study can reveal the current situation of the dissemination of Chinese culture from cross-cultural perspectives,provide suggestions for improving the compilation and organization of local cultural content in China’s high school English textbooks,and also provide suggestions for high school English teachers to carry out local culture teaching in China.Applying the methods of literature research,text analysis,corpus analysis,comparative research and interview,this study takes newest edition of senior high school English textbook（short for English textbooks）and 26 cultural keywords in the“Hello,China” as the research object.The framework of the study includes three dimensions: frequency,ways and forms of presentation and collocation,so as to provide suggestions on the compilation,organization and teaching of local culture in senior high school English textbooks in China.The study result shows that in terms of frequency of cultural keywords,more than60% of words have low frequency in English textbooks and NOW corpus,and are distributed in different categories in national conditions,daily life and achievement;“tea” and “calligraphy” are the only two words with high frequency in English textbooks and NOW corpus.In the ways and forms of presentation,cultural keywords in English textbooks and NOW corpus tend to prefer the independent appearance of local culture,and also take into account the way of cooccurrence;cultural keywords in achievement category often appear in the way of cooccurrence in English textbooks and corpus.In terms of collocation,cultural keywords in national conditions category attach more importance to cultural significance in English textbooks;the cultural meaning of some keywords in daily life category in NOW corpus is gradually weakened,but they are endowed with richer practical significance;the collocation of cultural keywords in achievement and concept category attaches the most importance to cultural significance in both English textbooks and NOW corpus;among the four categories of cultural keywords,there are cultural keywords with high frequency in NOW corpus but not concerned in English textbooks.Based on the research outcomes above,this study puts forward some feasible and relevant suggestions from two aspects: English textbook compilation and culture teaching in English class. |
