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The Metaphorical Semantic Analysis And The Culture Interpretation Of Chinese And Foreign Common Flower-related Words

Posted on:2017-06-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J R ZhuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330512964913Subject:Chinese international education
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Metaphor rooted in the cultural system, and also associated multidisciplinary fields such as linguistics,cognitive science. The experience of flowers is the basis of the formation of metaphorical semantic.Metaphor helps mankind know the world, and has far-reaching significance in the process of development of human history. Many flower-related words exist in different languages, so the metaphorical semantic are similarities or differences between them,which reflect the regional and national character of "flower".Under the different background,peoples awareness of things exist differences unavoidably.The differences of metaphor flower words has become a sensitive issue in cross-cultural communication,which is an important aspect of learners cannot be ignored.Understanding the metaphorical semantic of flower-related words, need the help of local cultural and a specific cultural environment.This paper examines the metaphorical semantic with multiple perspectives,flower-related words metaphor object covers some kind of crowd, exterior appearance, moral character, the youth life, romantic love, sincere friendship, time, etc. The factors of different metaphorical semantic involved in the way of thinking, national culture, traits of character, language system from several aspects. This article also design the questionnaire based on the analysis of the integration of the corpus, to organize data, explore the cognitive style of second language learners' metaphor,understanding the value of cognitive ability in teaching Chinese as a foreign language.
Keywords/Search Tags:Metaphor, Flower-related words, Culture, Contrast
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