英语本科论文范文：主体部分.doc

Introduction Culture exists in the internal and external modes. It learns and disseminates itself by the help of signs and constructs the special attainments of the human beings (A.L. Robert and K. Clark, 1952). In the east, culture is named Wenhua. From the ancient Chinese books, Wen means the works, the characteristics, the laws and rites. Hua means enlightening people by education. From the aspect of politics, Wenhua is used to enlighten people governed by the emperors. In the west, culture is from the Latin word “culatura”, referring to agriculture and growing. Since the fifteenth century, it has become to mean fostering and developing the ability of human beings. Culture includes the following: 1. The mental factor, also called the spirit culture, refers to philosophy, science, art, religion, moral and concept of value---- the core of the spirit culture, which is of the most significance. 2. Language and sign. They are the methods that culture accumulates and builds up. Human beings can only communicate through language and signs. Only communication and interaction can create culture. (王福祥society by the help of symbols, signs and semiotics when human beings develop to a certain stage (苏金智，1991, 23). Numerology is a special field in linguistics. In the scientific Numerology world, the function of number is to compute as the real number, however, in another world-----the mind of human beings, its function is to express and to represent. Many numbers became imaginary numbers or fate numbers. They have abundant denotative meanings as well as connotative meanings (王秉钦，1998, 66). Owning to the influence of the Eastern and Western tradition, religious belief, language worship, there are different apotheoses of the numbers between the East and the West. Besides, there are many things in common and similar laws, especially in the Worship of Number. The easterners have their Fate Numbers, so do the westerns. The developing process of mysterious number always has three st