On Different Creatural Connotations Between Two Languages

DOI

10.2991/emcs-16.2016.91How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Chinese and western cultures; Animal words; Difference; Language; Connotation

Abstract

Every language is closely related to its culture. Due to historical events, cultural traditions, religious beliefs, natural environment factors, and other aspects, cultures both in English and Chinese language gives animal words specific and different cultural connotations, forming their own specific animal culture. Language is a cultural carrier and different social background and national cultures have a great effect on the cultural connotations of the animal words. Animal words reflects the moral institution, life attitude and other aspects of the national culture, and reflects the nation's social and psychological culture. Therefore, analysis of the differences between Chinese and Western animal words connotation is beneficial to understand the difference between nation’s social and psychological culture, and conducive to communicate cross-culturally.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chen Diao
AU  - Chuanying Yang
AU  - Ning Cai
AU  - Changhui Tian
AU  - Lin Xue
PY  - 2016/01
DA  - 2016/01
TI  - On Different Creatural Connotations Between Two Languages
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Education, Management, Computer and Society
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 380
EP  - 384
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/emcs-16.2016.91
DO  - 10.2991/emcs-16.2016.91
ID  - Diao2016/01
ER  -