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1、TheSimilaritiesandDissimilaritiesofTheCulturalConnotationsofAnimalWordsinBothChineseandEnglishAbstract:Anylanguagebearsalotofculturalconnotations,languageisthevehicleofculture,andvocabularyisthemostactivepartoflanguage.Animalmetaphors,withtheculturalconnotationsoftheirown,arewidel
2、yemployedinbothEnglishandChineselanguage.Thisarticlecomparesandanalysestheconnotationsofanimalmetaphorsindifferentaspects,revealingtherelevantsocialandculturalpsychologyanditsinfluencesoninterculturalcommunication.Keywords:animalmetaphors;culturalconnotation;interculturalcommunica
3、tionI. Introduction Animalsarefriendsofhumanbeingsfromancienttimes.LanguagesofallnationscontainalotofwordsdenotinganimalsandsodoChineseandEnglish.Inthesocialdevelopment,animalwordsgraduallygettheirestablishedconnotationsinalllanguages,thatis,peopleassociatetheirfeelingsandemotio
4、ns,evenhappeningsandnaturalphenomenawithvariousanimalswhicharethoughttorepresentdifferentcharacterslikepeople,orserveasomens.Manyanimalshavebecomeakindofsymbolinpeople’sthinking,andthissymbolisreflectedinthelanguage.Inrecentyears,manylinguists,asDeYanchang,HeZiran,HuWenzhong,havep
5、aidmuchattentiontocross-culturalcommunication.Theydevotemuchtopragmatics,comparisonoflanguagesandculturesbetweenEnglishandChinese.II.LiteraturereviewBecauseconnotationsofanimalwordsinonelanguagedonotnecessarilycoincidewiththoseinChineseandEnglishandscatteredinmanybooks.Inordertofi
6、ndhowanimalsstandfordifferentsymbols,over200questionnairesweredistributedinChineseandEnglishrespectivelytoChineseandEnglishspeakingpeople(DeZhang,1997).InawaytheopinionsthusgatheredcanrepresenttheEnglishspeakingpeopleandChinesethoughtheyareneitheraccuratenorveryauthentic,butasacom
7、parativeorcontrastivestudy.Thefirstpartofquestionnaireintendstothesymbolismofsomeanimalsstandingfor.Theresultrevealsthattheconnotationsofsomeanimalsinthetwoculturesvarygreatlywhilethoseofothersareverysimilarasthefollowingtablesshow.Animal Symbol(s) PercentageinChinese Percen
8、tageinEnglishFox Cunning,Slynes