A Comparison of Cultural Connotations Between Chinese and English Animal Words 英语毕业论文修订稿

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1、AComparisonofCulturalConnotationsBetweenChineseandEnglishAnimalWordsAbstractLanguageisthecarrieroftheculture.Differentnationallanguagemakesthecultureintheworldpresentdifferentposesandexpressions.Culturaldifferencegivesdifferentconnotationsofthesameanimalwords.Atthesametime,animalwordsi

2、nChineseandEnglishreflecttheculturebackgroundinChinaandinwesterncountries.Themeaningsofanimalwords,accompanywiththedevelopmentofsocietyandtheevolutionofculture,becomediversified.Theimplicationsofanimalwordsrelyonpeople’sunderstandingonbackgroundknowledge.Vocabularyhasreflecteddifferent

3、socialcultureandsocialbackgrounds,andculturaldifferencehascausedthedifferenceofthevocabularyonculturalconnotation.Vocabularyisthemostpositiveandactivepartinlanguage.Whilestudyingthenationalculturaldifferences,weshouldfirstsetaboutfromthewords.Amongthem,theconnotationdifferenceisparticu

4、larlyobviousintheexpressionofanimalwords.Basedontheanimalwords,thisthesismainlytalksabouttheculturaldifferencesoftheanimalwordsinEnglishandChinese,comparesfromthesameanimalwordhasthesameanddifferentculturalconnotationsinEnglishandChinese,anddifferentanimalwordsinEnglishandChineseexpres

5、sthesameculturalconnotation.ThethesisdiscussesandcomparestheculturalconnotationsandthereasonscausedbytheanimalwordsinEnglishandChinese,thusgivesmoredetailsontheculturaldifferencereflectedbytheanimalwords,andtriestounderstandtheculturereflectedbythemaccordingtothetranslationofwords,idio

6、msandproverbsinChineseandEnglish,analyzesandcomparestheculturalmeaningoftheanimalwordsinEnglishandChinese.Bycomparison,peoplecanfeelmoreclearlyaboutthehistoricalandculturaldifferencesontheanimalwordsinEnglishandChinese,andrevealthenon-equivalenceofconnotationinthetwolanguages.KeyWords:

7、AnimalWords；EnglishandChinese；CulturalDifference；Non-equivalence中文摘要语言是文化的载体。文化差异赋予了同一动物词汇不同的内涵,同时，中英文中的动物词汇又映射了中西方国家的文化背景。随着社会的发展与文明的演变，动物词汇的含义多样化了。动物词汇的内涵依赖于人们对背景知识的认识。本文以动物词汇为例，主要论述英汉语言中动物词汇的文化差异，从同一动物词在英汉语言中具有的相同与相异的文化涵义，相同的文化内涵由不同的英汉动物词来表达,探讨和比较英汉语言中动物词汇所反映的文化内涵及其形成原因，并在各个层面细化动物