英语论文the_influence_of_culture_on_idioms_in_english_language

英语论文the_influence_of_culture_on_idioms_in_english_language

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1、IntroductionEnglishidiomsareconsideredasthemostactivepartofEnglishlanguage,andtheyarewidelyusedinpeople’sdailylife,newspaper,magazine,broadcastingandTVmedia.Itisquitedifficulttogiveacleardefinitiontotheword“idiom”,foritpossessesseveralmeanings,whichmightcauseconfusion.Itmaymeanthelan

2、guageofapeopleoracountry,oradialect,oralinguisticusagethatdefiesgrammaticalanalysis.Butthemostsuitabledefinitionforthispaperisasfollows.“Idiomisanexpressionestablishedinthelongusageofalanguagethatispeculiartoitselfeitheringrammaticalconstructionorinhavingameaningthatcannotbederivedas

3、awholefromtheconjoinedmeaningsofitselements.”Englishidioms,inabroadsense,includeidiomaticphrase,proverbs,colloquialismsandslangs.Incomparison,theChineseequivalentfor“idiom”is“习语”.Itmeansakindofsetphraseorsentence,which,likeastockexpression,isoftenquotedbythecommonpeople.Chineseidioms

4、canberoughlydividedinto“setphrases”(成语),“commonsayings”(俗语),“proverbs”(谚语),“atwo-partallegoricalsaying”(歇后语),and“vulgarexpression”(粗俗语)Fromtheabovedefinitionsandclassificationswecanextractthreebasiccharacteristicsofidioms.(1)Anidiomisaspecialformoflanguage.Anidiommustbewellestablishe

5、dandacceptedthroughcommonpractice.Itstandsasawhole.Sonoelementinanidiomcanbechanged.Inmanycases,idiomsholdimpliedmeanings,andcannotbeinterpretedjustaccordingtotheirliteralmeanings.(2)Anidiomisthecrystallizationoflanguage.Languagegivesbirthtoidioms.Italsopolishesidioms.Refinedbylongus

6、ageidiomshavebeendescribedasthecoreoflanguage.(3)Anidiomistherepresentativeofalanguage.ThoughbothBritishandChinese18peopleuseidiomsandgivethealmostsamedefinitionofidioms,wecannotequalthetwoidioms,fortheirrangesaredifferent.Asanimportantmeansofspreading,retaininglanguageandculture,idi

7、omscontainrichculturalfactorsthemselves.Fromthispointofview,itistotallywrongtostudylanguagebyisolatingidiomsfromthewholeculturalbackgroundofonelanguage.WecansavemanydifficultiesbymasteringEnglishidiomsandlearnthemwell.18Chapter1TheRelationshipBetweenIdiomsandCultureIdiomaticexpressio

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