Contrastiv studies of personal names in Chinese a.doc

Contrastive studies of personal names in Chinese and English 摘要 姓名在人类社会中有着重要的地位，它不到您是社会成员相互区别的符号，而且折射着一个名族的语言，历史，宗教等信息。大千世界，人人有姓，人人有名，姓和名是汉英民族共有的文化现象。但是一个民族的经济发展状况，思想文化传统及风俗习惯又使他在姓名上区别于另一个民族。本文都过对比汉英姓名的结构，姓氏的起源，命名原则及命名方式揭示出隐含在这两个姓名体系背后的文化内涵。这对汉英人名的翻译有重要的实践意义。 关键词：英汉姓名；对比研究；翻译； Abstract personal name is very important in our human society. It is not only the symbol that differentiate one social member from another one, but also implies the language,history and religion of a nation. In this world,everyone has a name, everyone has a surname. Surname and given name are common phenomena between Chinese and English nations. But the development of economy. Ideological culture tradition, manners and customs make one nation different from another one in personal names. This thesis tries to reveal hidden national cultural connotations behind the two big name systems from a thorough comparative study of origin,naming method comparison. And this will be of great importance for translation practice. Key words: English and Chinese names; comparative study; translation Introduction With the development of world cultural communication, a great advance has been made in china’s English-Chinese contrastive studies. Especially in terms of purposes,theoretical orientation and research method. In this thesis, contrastive studies in Chinese and English naming will be done, so as to sort out the difference and only contrastive study can bring about accurate understanding of difference of both Chinese and English personal names which will be helpful to avoid blindness in translation. Personal name is a common phenomenon in all nations. It is names that ensure the effective communication between human beings, so everyone has a name. What’s more,each country has different naming method which is affected by history, society, thought. The contrastive study of Chinese and English names will be useful for studying the similarities and differences between the Chinese and English culture. This