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The Study Of Chinese Vocabulary Associative Meaning

Posted on:2013-04-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D E XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2245330374454434Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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The word’s logical meaning is word’s core and the most basic meaning, and theword’s associational meaning not only has core meaning but also has some additionalmeaning that can bring associationWord’s associational meaning basically has common things but sometimes itdepends on people who use that word.This paper about study of word’s associational meaning is to understand essence,classification and operation of the associational meaning, and is to comprehend theChinese word’s system more completely, so we can make out rule of the Chinesevocabulary in using Chinese.The main point of this study is how associational meaning creates new words incourse of language development and makes clear the connection of associationalmeaning and new words. Also, this paper analyzes associational meaning working inlanguage qualification and explains the relationship of associational meaning in theformation of culture and xieyin(Chinese character that has same or similarpronunciation) phenomena.Every country’s language qualification phenomena is so closely bound up with thatcountry’s culture.This paper proceeds with the analysis of comparison among associational meaningsabout animal, plants, color, number in Chinese, English(UK) and Korean vocabulary.Through this, we can figure out commonness and difference in each of languageuser’s cultural speculation.If a student wants to understand a country’s culture, it is essential to comprehend theword’s meaning exactly, use it properly, improve language’s application skills and sofinally he or she can communicate with people smoothly.This is also one of the educational function of associational meaning.
Keywords/Search Tags:vocabulary, associational meaning, association, comparitive analysis
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