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1、OntheDifferencesandSimilaritiesofAnimalWordsinChine【Abstract】InbothChineseandEnglish,therearemanyidiomsethingtodoals.Someanimalsofbothlanguageshavethesimilarmeanings,culturalconnotationsandtherangeofusagebecauseanimalsintheeattributesandfeatures.Hosandreligions,differencesareboundt
2、oappearintheidiomsalsainlydiscussesthesimilaritiesanddifferencesofanimals.Italsofocusesontheanalysisofthecausesofthedifferencesfromthefolloent. nguageandculture,intrinsicallydependentoneachother,haveevolvedtogetherthroughthehistory”(Baker,2000:7).Ontheonehand,languageisthebaseofen
3、tireculture,anditisonlyinlanguagethatculturecanbegenerationtogeneration.Ontheotherhand,languageisinfluencedandshapedbyculture.Inthebroadestsense,languageisthesymbolicrepresentationofapeopleandthedevelopmentoflanguageoftenembodiesthechangeofculture.(张俊霞,2007:8) Inrecentyears,manyli
4、nguistshavepaidmuchattentiontocross-culturemunication.Theydevotedmuchtopragmatics,parisonoflanguagesandculturesbetanypapersontheparisonofanimalaticparisonofculturalconnotationsofanimaladeresearchesontherelationshipbetalilarculturalconnotationsinChineseandEnglish.Manyotherscholarsfo
5、cusedontheanimalelinguistsstartedtofindoutthecausesforthosedifferences,suchasYuminZhouandYueLi. ThisdissertationattemptstoparethesimilaritiesanddifferencesofanimalalouslinguistLidoilaritiesanddissimilaritiesintheculturalconnotationsofanimalunication.”(Basst,1998)Thesymbolismofanim
6、alsreflectsspecialanimalculturesofdifferentnations.People'ssplayimportantrolesinthechangesofconnotativemeaningofanimalaletimescoincidesmaticalmeaningandlexicalmeaning.Lexicalmeaninghasteaningandcognitivemeaning.Theformeristhecenterofthemeaningoftheeaninghasparativestability,soitisa
7、lsocalledreferentialmeaning.Cognitivemeaninghasthemeaningofemotionalcolor;otionsandattitudestothecontentsthattheeaningisalsocalledconnotativemeaning.Culturalconnotationcontainscognitivemeaningsandculturalmeanings.Culturalconnotationofaationthataeaningortheimpliedmeaninggivenbytheso
8、cialbackground,andthespeci