从英汉动物习语的对比看文化差异

学科分类号0502

本科学生毕业论文（设计）题目（中文）：从英汉动物习语的对比看文化差异

（英文）: On the Cultural Differences Between

English and Chinese from Animal Idioms 姓名郭倩倩

学号 200504091237

院（系）湖南科技学院外国语言文学系

专业、年级英语专业2005级

指导教师罗小英

2009 年 5月08 日

On the Cultural Differences Between English

and Chinese from Animal Idioms

Submitted

by

Guo Qianqian

Supervised

by

Associate Professor Luo Xiaoying

submitted

to

The Foreign Languages Department

In partial fulfillment of the requirements

for the degree of

Bachelor of Arts

in the subject of

English Language and Literature

Hunan University of Science and Engineering

Yongzhou

May, 2009

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Contents

摘要.................................................................................ⅠAbstract....................................................................... . (Ⅱ)

Introduction (1)

1 A Brief Review of Animal Idioms (4)

1.1 Definition and Features of Animal Idioms (4)

1.2 Relationship Between Culture and Animal Idioms (6)

1.3 Embodiments of Animal Idioms (7)

2 Cultural Differences Between English and Chinese from Animal

Idioms…………………….................................

(13)

2.1 Dog and

Gou (13)

2.2 Dragon and

Long (14)

2.3 Bat and

Bianfu (16)

2.4 Peacock and

Kongque (17)

3 Reasons for the Differences Between English and Chinese

Animal

Idioms…………………………………………………...........

(19)

3.1 Different Social

Conventions (19)

3.2 Different Living

Environments (21)

Conclusion………………………………………………………….....

..23 Bibliography……………………………………………………….....

(25)

Acknowledgements

摘要

习语在任何语言中都是精华。它是在不同的历史，地理环境和文

化背景下形成的；承载着一定的民族文化特色和文化信息。英汉两种语言历史悠久，包含着大量的动物习语，由于历史，社会生活等方面因素的影响，英汉动物习语体现了中西文化的相同和差异。

国内外多数学者已对习语做了研究。我国邓炎昌教授对动物习语体现的英汉语言文化进行对比分析，其为对动物习语日后的研究打下基础。本论文从一些动物习语入手，通过比较其在中西文化中所具有的不同文化内涵，向读者展示中西文化的差异，以便人们更好地理解动物习语，在跨文化交际中恰当运用。

关键词：动物习语；文化差异；原因

Abstract

Idiom is the cream of any language. The formation of idiom

is achieved under different history, geographical environment and cultural background, which is a symbol of one national’s unique culture and culture information. English and Chinese languages both have a long history, and they contain many animal idioms. Because of the history, social life and some other influences, English and Chinese animal idioms reflect the similarities and differences between Chinese and Western cultures.

Many scholars and linguists at home and abroad have done researches about idioms. Professor Deng Yanchang (2003) made a contrastive study of English and Chinese language cultures from the animal idioms. The research of animal idioms laid a foundation for the researches on idioms later on. This thesis starts its discussion from animal idioms to show the differences between Chinese and Western culture by contrasting the different connotation in different areas. To get people to know the function that animal idioms are used in multi-cultural communication, can make people use it proficiently.

Key words: animal idiom, different culture, reason