the cultural connotations of animal words in english 英语论文

the cultural connotations of animal words in english 英语论文

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1、TheCulturalConnotationsofAnimalWordsinEnglishAbstract:Theculturalmeaningofanimalwordsreflectsthecultureofanation.Duetodifferentculturalbackgrounds,peopleofdifferentculturalgroupshavedifferentunderstandingtothesameanimalvocabularyandadddifferentculturalconnotationtoit.Theexplorat

2、ionofthesourcesoftheculturalconnotationsofanimalwordsinEnglishishelpfulfortheunderstandingoftheEnglishculture.Thispaperaimstomakeacomparativeanalysisoftheeasternandwesternculturaldifferencesbetweentheconnotativemeaningsofsomecommonanimals.KeyWords:Animalwords;Culturalconnotation

3、s;CulturaldifferencesI.IntroductionAnimalisthebestfriendofhumanbeingswhichplaysanimportantroleinalanguage.Withthedevelopmentofoursociety,humanandanimalsco-existandcontactfrequently.Therefore,thereisagreatquantityofanimalwordsandphrasesinhumanlanguages.Theyplayveryimportantrolein

4、thelifeofhumanbeings,sodoanimalwordinlanguage.Manyanimalshavebecomeakindofsymbolisminpeople’sthinkingwhichisreflectedinlanguages.AndthisthesisaimsatexploringthecultureconnotationsofanimalwordsbetweenEnglishandChinese.II.AnimalWordsandItsConnotationinEnglishandChinese2.1Thesamean

5、imalwordwiththedifferentsimilarconnotationTherearemanywordswhichcontaincertainmeaningsofanimalwords.Itisveryeasytounderstandtheirforms.InEnglishandChineselanguages,peoplehavethesameconnotationpig.Inpeople’smind,theythinkpigisugly,dirty,lazy,greedyandrough.Therearesimilarphraseab

6、outpiginthetwolanguagessuchas“asfatasapig”“肥的像头猪”and“aslazyaspig”“懒得像头猪”andsoon.ThePilgrimagetotheWestisoneofthefourfamousbooksinchina.Itisamyth.Inthisnovel,Zhubajieisanugly,lazy,greedyandlustperson.FoxhasthealmostsameconnotationinbothEnglishandChinese-sly.InChinese,whenwecallag

7、roupofrogues“他是只老狐狸”,wemean“Heisverysly”.ThesamecasehappenstothewordwolfinEnglishandChinese.It’sassociatedwithviolent,cunningandgreedy.InChinesewecanfind“如狼似虎”“ferocious”,“狼心狗肺”“ungrateful”etc.InEnglish,wemeet“wolfdown”“狼吞虎咽”,“haveawolfbyears”“进退两难”andsoon.Moreover,whenawolfrepr

8、esentsaperson,itmeansamanwhoisalwaysreadytomake

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