Communication cross cultures is becoming more and more frequent and extensive.In our case,cross-cultural communication refers to that between English and Chinese-both in culture and language.Due to different tradition...Communication cross cultures is becoming more and more frequent and extensive.In our case,cross-cultural communication refers to that between English and Chinese-both in culture and language.Due to different traditions,cultures,social mentality,there exist vast differences between English and Chinese.This paper,based on a large number of convincing examples and from the angle of cultural analysis,explores the differences and similarities of the metaphorical meaning of animal words between the English and Chinese languages in order to account for the cultural connotation and its interaction with translation.展开更多
Ideational metaphor is a typical type of grammatical metaphor. The analysis of grammatical metaphor in English nursery rhymes from the perspective of ideational metaphor, which tries to explore possible evidence of th...Ideational metaphor is a typical type of grammatical metaphor. The analysis of grammatical metaphor in English nursery rhymes from the perspective of ideational metaphor, which tries to explore possible evidence of the existence of ideational metaphor in the language of young children-nursery rhymes. Children learn probably many equally complex systems as that of human language.展开更多
文摘Communication cross cultures is becoming more and more frequent and extensive.In our case,cross-cultural communication refers to that between English and Chinese-both in culture and language.Due to different traditions,cultures,social mentality,there exist vast differences between English and Chinese.This paper,based on a large number of convincing examples and from the angle of cultural analysis,explores the differences and similarities of the metaphorical meaning of animal words between the English and Chinese languages in order to account for the cultural connotation and its interaction with translation.
文摘Ideational metaphor is a typical type of grammatical metaphor. The analysis of grammatical metaphor in English nursery rhymes from the perspective of ideational metaphor, which tries to explore possible evidence of the existence of ideational metaphor in the language of young children-nursery rhymes. Children learn probably many equally complex systems as that of human language.
