北京理工大学珠海学院 2020 届本科生毕业论文A Comparative Study on Cultural Connotation of Sino-American Animal Words北京理工大学珠海学院 2020 届本科生毕业论文 A Comparative Study on Cultural Connotation of Sino-American Animal WordsAbstractIn the process of human development, there is a close relationship between animals and human beings, and the existence of animals has a profound impact on human survival. This kind of close relationship leads to negative or positive attitude towards different types of animals. People began to give animals specific metaphors in language by their characteristics and habits. Due to cultural differences, Chinese and Americans have a different understanding of the cultural connotations of some animal words.This paper takes animal words as the research subject and adopts inductive method and comparative research method. It aims to find out the differences and similarities of cultural connotation of animal words between China and America, and further explores the factors that affect the cultural connotation of animal vocabulary.The research shows that due to people’s similar cognition of the world, some animal words may have similar expressions even in different cultures. At the same time, due to different living environment of human beings, the cultural connotations of some animal words are different and there even exists cultural connotation vacancy. This phenomenon is due to animal habits, religions, legends and myths, history, social psychology, values and other factors, which affect people’s understanding of the cultural connotation of animal words.Keywords: Sino-American culture, animal words, cultural connotationsI北京理工大学珠海学院 2020 届本科生毕业论文中美动物词汇文化内涵的对比研究摘 要在人类...
