a comparison of cultural connotations of animal words in english and chinese

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1、AComparisonofCulturalConnotationsofAnimalWordsinEnglishandChineseAbstractLanguageisthecarrierofculture.Theanimalwords,widelyusedinbothEnglishandChinese,reflectthesimilaritiesanddifferencesofthetwolanguages.Basedonanalysisoftheanimalwordswithculturalconnotation,itexplai

2、nsandcomparesthegeneralandspecificcharactersofthesewordsusedinEnglishandChinese.Underthedifferentbackground,theanimalwordshaveabundantculturalconnotation.ThesameanimalwordsinEnglishandChinesehavethesameconnotation,thedifferentculturalconnotationornocorrespondingmeaning

3、;thedifferentanimalwordshavethesameculturalconnotation.Thepaperdealswiththedifferenceinthetraditionalculture,theaestheticorientation,thewayofthinkingetc,helpingpeopletounderstandthereasonwhythesimilaritiesanddifferencesexistinanimalwordsisusefultoachievetheacross-cultu

4、ralcommunicationandincreasetheunderstandingofdifferentcultures.Keywords:animalwordsculturalconnotationsimilaritiesanddifferencesassociation15-摘要语言是文化的载体，动物词在英汉语当中有很广泛的应用。英汉两种文化的异同同样也反映在所使用的文化动物词中，并分析动物词语的丰富的文化内涵，并对动物词在英汉语中的异同进行了阐述和对比。在不同的文化背景下，动物词有不同的联想意义。英汉语中相同的动物词意义相

5、同，内涵相同，相反或不对应等等；不同的动物词，内涵相似。本文就从传统文化，审美观念，思维方式等几个原因分别进行探讨，搞清这些异同有助人们顺利进行跨文化交际，增进对文化的了解.关键词：动物词文化内涵异同联想15-ContentsAbstracti摘要iiContentsiiiIntroduction11ThesameanimalwordshavesameculturalconnotationsinEnglishandChinese21.1Thesameanimalhassimilarbasicattributes21.2Thehuma

6、nevolutioncausesEnglishandChineseanimalwordscharacteristicstohavecommoncharacteristics32ThesameanimalwordshavedifferentculturalconnotationsinEnglishandChinese42.1Thetraditionalculturemakessameanimalwordshavetypicallynationalculturalcharacteristics42.2Theaestheticorient

7、ationisdifferent62.3Themodeofthinkingisdifferent83ThesameanimalwordshavenocorrespondingculturalconnotationsinEnglishandChinese93.1Thegeographicalenvironmentisdifferent103.2ThesameanimalhasthedifferentinfluenceandpositionintheEnglishandChineseminds104Thedifferentanimalw

8、ordshavethesimilarculturalconnotationinEnglishandChinese11Conclusion.12Bibliography13Acknowledgement……………………………………………