【正文】 本科生畢業(yè)論文（設(shè)計(jì)） 題 目 A Study of Cultureloaded Plant Words Between English and Chinese 姓 名 學(xué)號 院 系 專 業(yè) 英語 指導(dǎo)教師 職稱 教授 A Study of Cultureloaded Plant Words Between Chinese and English A Thesis Submitted to College of Foreign Languages Qufu Normal University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Bachelor of Arts By Ji Kaishang Under the Supervision of Sun Huaxiang ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am grateful to many people who have contributed to the pletion of this thesis. First of all, I want to appreciate my supervisor, Professor Sun Huaxiang, for his valuable instruction, constructive suggestions and his constant generosity in spending his precious time revising this thesis. Without his great effort, I definitely can not go so far. I am also very indebted to my classmates, for the advices on modern linguistics and English literature they give me when I ask for help. I would also like to take this opportunity to give my heartfelt thanks to my family members for their endless support and inspiring encouragement. iii ABSTRACT As a municative symbol, language is closely related to its culture. Brown once said that Language, as the tool of munication of a distinctive cultural group, is the most visible and effective expression of that cultural pattern, customs and way of life. However, in traditional English study, much attention is only paid to knowledge, such as vocabularies, phrases, grammatical rules, while the cultural background of the language is ignored. As a result, people sometimes can?t understand or municate well with each other when using some words that contain unique cultural images. With the appearance of economic globalization, the “global village” and the close contact between countries, intercultural munication has bee an integrated part of people?s life. We not only need to improve the language skills, but also to cultivate our ability of the crosscultural munication. Cultureloaded words and expressions are full of specific and unique cultural information, reflecting cultural discrepancies between different cultural groups at utmost. Under many circumstances, the same word can contain totally different associative meanings for people in different countries, such as pumpkins, they can make Americans think about Thanksgiving Day or Halloween. However, Chinese people don?t have such thoughts. And this case is especially mon with plant words, the connotative meanings of which are often ignored by English learners. The purpose of learning language is to improve the people?s ability to better municate with people around the world. Thus, to learn a language is to learn another culture. However, for different reasons in practice, little attention has been paid to the cultural meanings of the words. This paper is mainly aimed at preliminarily avoiding mistranslations and misunderstandings in crosscultural munication by conducting a general analysis and parison of cultureloaded iv words, especially plant words between Chinese and English. Key Words: English Study。 Cultureloaded words。 Plant words v 摘 要 作為一種交際符號，語言與文化密切相關(guān)。著名語言學(xué)家布朗先生曾經(jīng)說過，語言，作為傳承同一文化民族的交際工具，是對文化本身、文化表現(xiàn)形式、人們風(fēng)俗習(xí)慣以及生活方式最可見的和最有效的說明和呈現(xiàn)。然而，在傳統(tǒng)的英語學(xué)習(xí)中，學(xué)習(xí)者常常片面地重視語言知識，例如詞匯，短語和語法規(guī)則，而忽略了文化背景知識的學(xué)習(xí)，結(jié)果造成了跨文化交際中無法正確理解和有效交流的現(xiàn)象。隨著經(jīng)濟(jì)的全球化以及地球村的出現(xiàn)，國與國的交往日益頻繁，跨文化交際日益成為人們生活中不可分割的一部分。因此我們不僅需要扎實(shí)的語言 功底，更需要培養(yǎng)跨文化交際的意識和能力。 文化負(fù)載詞承載了大量的具體而獨(dú)特的文化信息，從而最大程度地反映出不同文化群體的文化差異。在許多情況下，同樣的一個單詞在文化背景不同的人頭腦中反映出的意象和聯(lián)想是完全不同的。如 pumpkin（南瓜），美國人會聯(lián)想到感恩節(jié)、萬圣節(jié)；而中國人卻完全沒有這樣的聯(lián)想。而這種現(xiàn)象在植物詞匯中特別明顯，但卻常常被英語學(xué)習(xí)者所忽略。 語言學(xué)習(xí)的目的是為了培養(yǎng)人們掌握使用另一種語言進(jìn)行有效跨文化交際的能力。因此，學(xué)習(xí)語言就是學(xué)習(xí)另一種文化。然而由于實(shí)際英語學(xué)習(xí)過程中的種種原因 ，人們很少注意詞匯的文化深層含義。因此本文致力于通過對中英文中特別是植物詞匯的簡要分析和對比，達(dá)到初步在跨文化交際中避免產(chǎn)生誤讀和誤解的目的。 關(guān)鍵詞： 英語學(xué)習(xí)；文化負(fù)載詞；植物詞匯 vi CONTENTS Acknowledgements.......................................................................................................ii Abstract(English).......................................................................................................iii Abstract(Chinese).........................................................................................................v 1 Introduction...............................................................................................................1 2 What is Cultureloaded Words................................................................................3 The Definition of Cultureloaded Words.....................................................................................3 Classifications of Cultureloaded Words.....................................................................................3 The Relationship of Cultureloaded Words and Intercultural Communication........4 3 Factors making words carrier of culture................................................................6 Geographical Surroundings......................................................................................6 Historical Events......................................................................................................7 Cultural Values.........................................................................................................7 Religious Faith.........................................................................................................8 Habitual Psychology................................................................................................9 4 Cultureloaded Plant Words................