Comparative study on Chinese and British residences 英语专业毕业论文.docVIP

Acknowledgements At the completion of this thesis, I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Mr. Ji, for the instructive advice and useful suggestions he has given on my thesis. I am deeply grateful of his help in the process of my paper. Then my heartfelt thanks also go to my parents for their continuous support and encouragement. Last but not least, I am still grateful to other teachers who had conducted me in the study of the English language. Thanks also to my friends who have helped me a lot during my school life. Abstract The culture pattern is the abstract concept of the cultural products of a culture type, and the cultural products are the specific accounts of the culture pattern. Value pattern about interpersonal relationship is an important one of the culture pattern. Architecture, especially the residence, maintains the most close relationship with human beings, and its features may most directly reflect the local culture and character. Traditional Chinese residence is the quadrangle courtyard with the unique structure of soil wall and timber framework, which embodies the Chinese culture value of collectivism. The style of detached house reflects the British value pattern of individualism. Comparative study on Chinese and British residences is made in this paper in order to reveal the value pattern in the cultures. And as dominated by different values, the residences of different features may affect people’s life styles, characters and some ethnical words and sentences. And it is reached that there are distinctions between the nationalities of status of independence and awareness of privacy. Key Words Cultural Semantics residences China Britain culture values 摘 要　文化模式是文化成果的抽象,文化成果是文化模式的具体体现。建筑，尤其是住宅建筑，与人类生活息息相关。受集体主义价值模式的影响，中国形成四合院式、土木结构的住宅；而英国个人主义价值模式的影响形成了独立式的住宅。 本文通过比较中英建筑的区别，揭示其文化模式的差异。人们的生活习惯又受到这两种不同风格住宅的影响，并形成一些特有的民族语言及民族文化语义。从而得出了中英文化中不同的个人独立状态和私人空间意识。 关键词　 住宅, 中国, 英国, 文化价值，文化语义学 Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 T