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A Comparative Study of Some Prominent Cultural and Lexical Similarities and Dissimilarities between Chinese and English

Author: HeHong
Tutor: HuangWeiZuo
School: Zhengzhou University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Chinese and English Words Language and Culture Word Culture Historical and cultural background Semiotics Lexical gaps Transmission of cultural Associative meaning Thinking Social Thought
CLC: H319.3
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2000
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Abstract


A very close relationship between language and culture , and language as a part of the culture , documented , dissemination and intergenerational transmission of cultural information . Through the language of a nation , can get a glimpse of the cultural patterns of the splendours of the nation . The vocabulary is the basic configuration elements of the language , the language large system on which the pillar ; It is also the the language most active factor , often reflect the most sensitive to changes in the social life and social thought . Therefore, the most prominent cultural differences reflected in the vocabulary layer . The culture of the national character , the nationality also give vocabulary marked by deep ethnic stigma . The lexical gap often appear on the lexical level , the same concept in words , it appears to the same word has a different Lenovo meaning phenomenon. The cultural connotation of the word is a word repeated use and attached to the vocabulary conceptual sense , the history and culture of the precipitation . It is fixed in the human brain , restrict and influence the thinking of the people in the case of people did not realize it exists . Cultural differences to understand English and Chinese words to avoid misunderstanding or language used some language mistakes, English language teaching , foreign language teaching, translation , cross-cultural verbal communication has been beneficial . The paper is divided into five sections: Introduction , the first , second and third chapters and conclusion . Preface brief introduction to the origin of the word culture , Research , and my work done . The first chapter, the concept of culture , the characteristics of the relationship between language and culture , translation and cultural relations , additional words as the basic unit of the language and cultural factors . The second chapter discusses the national character of the Chinese and English words , it is caused by the difference of the geographical environment, customs , historical and cultural background , religion and values ??, etc. . This chapter focuses on these differences reflect in words . Chapter III discussed from the point of view of semiotics English-Chinese differences mode . According to the principle of semiotics , any symbol has three areas of significance . Words as a system of signs , but also the significance of the three areas . This chapter discusses the Chinese and English Words indicators sense three differences mode and seven pragmatic significance difference mode .

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