analysis of animal words in the english idioms carrier and its association meaningful comparison（分析英语习语中动物词汇的载体及其协会有意义的比较）.docVIP

Analysis of animal words in the English idioms carrier and its association meaningful comparison [Abstract] English and Chinese are rich in animal words as the carrier containing the idiom, but as the origin of the two languages ??in different cultures, customs and religious beliefs, which appear in the idiom of animal words in their respective language system may have different associative meaning. This comparison of the two languages ??from some representative animal associative meaning of words to start to explore the East-West embodied in different cultural implication, intended to reduce the cross-cultural communication and language barriers. [Keywords] idiom meaning animal word association Recognized by the world, originated in ancient Greek mythology to the ancient Chinese culture and Western culture and Eastern culture to the mainstream of the world’s richest, most complete and most widespread impact of two cultural systems. After thousands of years of accumulation, the two kinds of cultural systems develop their own culture. American society linguist Carol R. Ember has said that language through vocabulary to reflect the corresponding culture, all cultures will be left traces in the vocabulary. vocabulary due to become the carrier of culture much attention in the research community, is one of animal words in the English language has many words of idioms with animals. people are often based on the habits of animals with these terms and specific personality characteristics link, which will in turn these words stirred the hearts of the people associate a particular meaning. famous British linguist G. Leech in his lt;lt;semanticsgt;gt; (1981) a book that is the meaning of association a generic term that includes the implicit meaning, social meaning, emotional meaning, with meaning and words with meaning. associative meaning is established by relying on symbolic and semantic analog world. in a culture of people in society through their general emotio