【正文】 tinent which had experienced the Roman Times, the MidAges and the Christ Society, a typical country of western culture. The book of Travels of Marco Polo brought Chinese cultures into the European world and made great impact on people’s lives, including the British. Most of the British people showed great interest in Chinese Confucius, tea, china, classical gardens, etc. Then the culture of tea had been developed in a unique British way and the gardens of “Le Jardin AngloChinois” had once been focused on attentively all over the European continent. Generally speaking, the distinctions between the architectural features of these two countries are obvious because they are typical countries of two extremely different culture patterns in the world. 淮陰師范學(xué)院 本科生畢業(yè)論文（設(shè)計(jì)） 6 Chinese residences Any country has not one certain style of house, but there must be a typical ones or a basic framework to be followed. China is the third largest country in the world with a large territory of various geographical conditions and the climates. As posed of 56 ethic groups, the cultures in China are of various kinds. For these reasons, the residences are of various styles. There are numbers of types of traditional living houses such as the bamboo houses in the southwest of the country, the “den residence” on the Loess Plateau and so on. However, among all the types of Chinese architectures, there is a basic form called quadrangle courtyard as the most original structure on which Chinese architectures developed. Someone explained how the courtyard developed from the basic structure of Chinese mon dwellings: The original Chinese form of mon people living house is the residence of three rooms in a line with a door in the central one… Then as the population grows larger, the family builds houses lengthwise on the two sides and the opposite as the wingrooms to form an enclosure in the middle. Such an enclosure is called the quadrangle courtyard. And for a bigger family, they base on the single courtyard and add to it more yards to the length or to the width. It’s popular to extend the length of the yard and then it came into being the second yard, the third yard, or even more. It’s so easy to change the yard in size that it caters for Chinese extended families in the traditional society (Zhang 78). As the city of Beijing is famous for its traditional quadrangle courtyard, many people may have the idea that it39。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(yǔ)言及民族文化語(yǔ)義。 本文通過(guò)比較中英建筑的區(qū)別，揭示其文化模式的差異。 it is research on the influence process that cultural factors affect the semantic part from the aspect of semiotics and semantics。 the core part of culture is the traditional idea (namely idea obtained and selected in the history) and especially the value it brought in. On the one hand the culture system can be regarded as the product of social activity?；搓帋煼秾W(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)。 on the other hand it is the determining factor of the movements in the future” (Wu Keli 50). Tylor’s definition has the most farreaching influence in the field of culturology since the beginning of the subject. And Kroeber’s is now widely accepted and is considered to be the most plete one. Because of the plication of the culture and it’s hard to give a plete definition, many scholars are inclined to reduce it into concise parts. For example, someone has divided it into four parts as cultureproduct, culturecapability, culturespirit and cultureactpattern. In order to be pithier, Liu made it into two parts, cultureproduct and culturepattern. And the culturepattern includes the patterns of behavior, thought and value (LiuⅠ ). And I prefer this type of conception of culture because it sums up the culture in both broad and narrow senses. Cultureproduct is the culture in broad sense. It includes all the achievements human beings made in the society such as architectures, clothes, laws, literatures, social ideology and so on. Such cultureproduct is the specific display