【正文】 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。 本文通過比較中英建筑的區(qū)別，揭示其文化模式的差異?；搓帋煼秾W院 本科生畢業(yè)論文（設計） 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. 淮陰師范學院 本科生畢業(yè)論文（設計） 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 淮陰師范學院 本科生畢業(yè)論文（設計） 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。人們的生活習慣又受到這兩種不同風格住宅的影響，并 形成一些特有的民族語言及民族文化語義。 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 of the culturepattern. For example, the features of Chinese quadrangle courtyard show vividly the value pattern of collectivism of the country。 it is the parison on two languages to reveal the categories of culturefunctional semantics and ethnocultural semantics(. culturesynonymy and cultureantonym) and so on(Wu Guohua 17). Language is the product of the culture in the civil society. It shows people’s attitudes towards the world and their standards for activities. Language is a remarkable achievement of the civil human society and the sign of distinguished from the animals. Language depends on culture and is the reflection of culture. Words e out of the life style, living conventions, surroundings, social conditions of a nation. And this conducts the national characteristic of the word and the language. Architecture is the cultural product that most closely related with people’s living activities and also affects the national language and the semantics. 3. Architecture and culture Architecture is of the cultural product created in the human society. Its shapes, functions 淮陰師范學院 本科生畢業(yè)論文（設計） 4 and appearances are all catering for the certain culture pattern of the society. And residence takes the lead position in all kinds of buildings. Architecture as the culture product Architectures appear as a result of residence, one of the basic material needs of human beings for sheltering from wind and rain. Thus, architectures are considered to be one of the most important material needs for human living. “Material needs for living are the basic needs of great importance for man kind’s existence, and they are the base on which people carry out their activities. Judging from the quality of the materials, they are natural. While they are made use of in the society of human civilization, the materials are shaped as a result of catering for people’s tastes of different cultures. Thus, the substances from the natural world had been affected by various cultures and became containers full of cultural information ” (Liu 104). Said Liu in his book and he took the building as one of the examples for his parative study between Chinese and western cultures. Descriptions on how architectures received the cultural meanings were made that: “Houses in the ancient times were very simple without any decoration. With the development of the social technology, people began to add their designing thoughts and dec