英语毕业论文The Cultural Differences of Animal Words in English and Chinese.docVIP

英汉动物词汇的文化差异 The Cultural Differences of Animal Words in English and Chinese Abstract: Animal words are an important part of almost all the human languages. As a group of culture-bound words, animal words reflect cultural diversities in the aspects such as social psychology, customary habits, beliefs as well as value orientations. English and Chinese, as language with a long history, are both abundant in animal words, and almost all of the animal words carry their own unique connotation from social culture, historical background and geographic conditions. With the deepening of intercultural communication between China and the Western World, it is realized that animal words are likely to form an area in which misunderstanding in diversities of their cultural connotation, and that the instruction of their connotative meaning cannot be neglected. Animal words are for certain a useful window by which the cultural discrepancy, similarities, connotation and diversities are most liable to be distinctly perceived. Further, according to the study of the cultural connotation of animal words, one can have an in-depth apprehension of the commonness and individuality of cultures and thus avoid misusing their implications and lessen the cultural shock. Key words: animal words；culture connotation；English；Chinese；differences 摘　要：动物词汇几乎是所有语言的一个重要词汇组成部分。作为具有文化内涵意义的词汇，不同语言中的动物词汇反映着不同民族社会心理，风俗习惯，价值取向等文化因素方面的差异。汉语和英语同为源远流长的语言，都优丰富的动物词汇，但是，由于不同社会，历史，地理等原因，英语和汉语的许多动物词汇都具有反映各自民族文化特质的内涵意义。随着中西文化交流的不断深入，人们已经认识到，因为具有差异明显的文化内涵意义，英汉两种语言中的动物词汇不仅会成为跨文化交际中的一个敏感问题，也成为跨文化交际中不容忽视的一个重要方面。动物词汇毫无疑问也可被视作文化的一扇窗户，透过这扇窗户，这些文化差异，文化共性，文化内涵以及文化多样性也会变得一目了然。而且通过对动物词汇文化内涵的研究，人们可以对文化间的个性与共性有更深入的了解，从而避免滥用和误用动物词汇的内涵意义，减少文化冲突发生。 关键词：动物词汇；文化内涵；英语；汉语；差异 Contents I. Introduction……………………………………………………….......1 II. Literature Review…………………….……..… ……………............1 III. Relationship between Culture and Language………………….....2 Ⅳ.The Cultural Difference of Animal Vocabulary in Two Languages3 A. Same words but different meani