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The Cultural Connotations of Animal Words in English (英语论文)

The Cultural Connotations of Animal Words in English Abstract: The cultural meaning of animal words reflects the culture of a nation. Due to different cultural backgrounds, people of different cultural groups have different understanding to the same animal vocabulary and add different cultural connotation to it. The exploration of the sources of the cultural connotations of animal words in English is helpful for the understanding of the English culture. This paper aims to make a comparative analysis of the eastern and western cultural differences between the connotative meanings of some common animals. Key Words: Animal words; Cultural connotations; Cultural differences I. Introduction Animal is the best friend of human beings which plays an important role in a language. With the development of our society, human and animals co-exist and contact frequently. Therefore, there is a great quantity of animal words and phrases in human languages. They play very important role in the life of human beings, so do animal word in language. Many animals have become a kind of symbolism in people’s thinking which is reflected in languages. And this thesis aims at exploring the culture connotations of animal words between English and Chinese. II. Animal Words and Its Connotation in English and Chinese 2.1 The same animal word with the different similar connotation There are many words which contain certain meanings of animal words. It is very easy to understand their forms. In English and Chinese languages, people have the same connotation pig. In people’s mind, they think pig is ugly, dirty, lazy, greedy and rough. There are similar phrase about pig in the two languages such as “as fat as a pig” “肥的像头猪” and “as lazy as pig” “懒得像头猪” and so on. The Pilgrimage to the West is one of the four famous books in china. It is a myth. In this novel, Zhubajie is an ugly, lazy, greedy and lust person. Fox has the almost same connotation in both English and Chinese－sly. In Chinese, when w