【正文】 淮陰師范學(xué)院 本科生畢業(yè)論文（設(shè)計(jì)） i （空一行） Acknowledgements At the pletion of this thesis, I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Mr. Ji, for the instructive advice and useful suggestions he has given on my thesis. I am deeply grateful of his help in the process of my paper. Then my heartfelt thanks also go to my parents for their continuous support and encouragement. Last but not least, I am still grateful to other teachers who had conducted me in the study of the English language. Thanks also to my friends who have helped me a lot during my school life. 淮陰師范學(xué)院 本科生畢業(yè)論文（設(shè)計(jì)） ii （空一行） Abstract The culture pattern is the abstract concept of the cultural products of a culture type, and the cultural products are the specific accounts of the culture pattern. Value pattern about interpersonal relationship is an important one of the culture pattern. Architecture, especially the residence, maintains the most close relationship with human beings, and its features may most directly reflect the local culture and character. Traditional Chinese residence is the quadrangle courtyard with the unique structure of soil wall and timber framework, which embodies the Chinese culture value of collectivism. The style of detached house reflects the British value pattern of individualism. Comparative study on Chinese and British residences is made in this paper in order to reveal the value pattern in the cultures. And as dominated by different values, the residences of different features may affect people’s life styles, characters and some ethnical words and sentences. And it is reached that there are distinctions between the nationalities of status of independence and awareness of privacy. （空兩行） Key Words Cultural Semantics residences China Britain culture values 淮陰師范學(xué)院 本科生畢業(yè)論文（設(shè)計(jì)） iii (空一行 ) 摘 要 文化模式是文化成果的抽象 ,文化成果是文化模式的具體體現(xiàn)。建筑，尤其是住宅建筑，與人類生活息息相關(guān)。受集體主義價(jià)值模式的影響，中國(guó)形成四合院式、土木結(jié)構(gòu)的住宅；而英國(guó)個(gè)人主義價(jià)值模式的影響形成了獨(dú)立式的住宅。 本文通過比較中英建筑的區(qū)別，揭示其文化模式的差異。人們的生活習(xí)慣又受到這兩種不同風(fēng)格住宅的影響，并 形成一些特有的民族語言及民族文化語義。從而得出了中英文化中不同的個(gè)人獨(dú)立狀態(tài)和私人空間意識(shí)。 （空兩行） 關(guān)鍵詞 住宅 , 中國(guó) , 英國(guó) , 文化價(jià)值，文化語義學(xué) 淮陰師范學(xué)院 本科生畢業(yè)論文（設(shè)計(jì)） iv （上空兩行） Contents 1 Introduction ....................................................................................................... 1 2 Theoretical foundation: culture and cultural semantics ................................. 1 Comparative study of cultures ...................................................................... 1 Cultural semantics ........................................................................................ 3 3 Architecture and culture ................................................................................... 3 Architecture as the culture product ............................................................... 4 Residence ..................................................................................................... 4 4 Residences and the features .............................................................................. 5 Chinese residences........................................................................................ 6 British residences.......................................................................................... 7 Comparison of the main features .................................................................. 8 5 Cause and the embodiment ............................................................................... 8 The cause of the distinctions ......................................................................... 8 The embodiment of the culture ..................................................................... 9 Selfreliance and dependence............................................................... 10 Privacy and social concern....................................................................11 6 Conclusion ....................................................................................................... 13 Works Cited ........................................................................................................ 13 淮陰師范學(xué)院 本科生畢業(yè)論文（設(shè)計(jì)） v 淮陰師范學(xué)院 本科生畢業(yè)論文（設(shè)計(jì)） 1 1. Introduction Culture is the intellectual and spiritual achievements of human beings. It can be divided into two parts: cultureproduct and culturepattern. Cultureproduct is about the outes created by the basic structure and functions of a culture. It concerns the different exterior characteristics of culture systems. However, the culturepattern is the basic dominating part abstracted from the cultural products of various types, namely, it deals with the interior model of the culture. The culturepattern is the abstract concept of the cultural products of a culture type, while the cultural products are the specific accounts of the culture pattern (Liu I). Thus, parative study between cultures is just to reveal the culture pattern through the parison of the cultural products such as traditional clothes, architectures, religions and so on. Architecture is one type of the cultural product created by people of certain culture pattern. There have been lots of books and papers studying on the parison between Chinese and western cultures through architectural features from a variety of aspects such as concepts of nature, states of independence, aesthetic standards, and ways of naming the architectures and so on. And there are also parative studies on architectures built in Chinese and British landscape gardens. However, this paper deals with different cultural values in the residences of Chinese and British from the view of cultural semantics. It is mainly divided into three parts. The first part concerns the theories of my paper. The second part is about the architecture as the cultural product reflects the culture and conventions of the pe