A Contrastive Study of Animals’ Images in Chinese and English Idioms and the Implication for English Language Teaching 英语专业毕业论文

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1、ContentsIntroduction…………………………………………………………………………………………21.Idiom…………………………………………………………………………………………......22.ThestudiesofChineseandEnglishidioms……………………………………………………...32.1Animal-relatedidioms32.2Acontrastivestudyofanimalimages32.2.1Geographicalpositionandnaturalenvironment42.2

2、.2Culturalbackground52.2.3Customs72.2.4Religion83.ImplicationsforEnglishteaching………………………………………………………………..93.1Theimportanceofteachingandlearningidioms93.2MethodsofIdiomTeaching104.Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………11References…………………………………………………………………………………………12Ac

3、knowledgements………………………………………………………………………………..1615AContrastiveStudyofAnimals’ImagesinChineseandEnglishIdiomsandtheImplicationforEnglishLanguageTeachingIntroductionIdiomsareaveryimportantpartofalanguage.Theyarewidelyrecognizedastheessenceoflanguage.However,idiomsareoftenhar

4、dtounderstandanduseproperly.Tosomedegreewecansaythattheproperuseofidiominalanguageisamarkofaperson’scommandofthelanguage.AsNidaholds,“Idiomsusuallycarrymoreimpactthannon-idiomaticexpressionsbecauseoftheircloseidentificationwithaparticularlanguageandculture(Nida2001:28).”Mu

5、chhasbeendiscussedaboutEnglishandChineseidiomsinthepast.AndthisthesisaimsatamoredetaileddescriptionoftheanimalimagesinEnglishidiomsandChineseidioms.Ialsohope,bywritingthisthesistohelpEnglishlearnersfindmoreflexiblewaystounderstandanduseidioms.1.IdiomWhenitcomestoidiom,thef

6、ollowingdictionarieshavegivendifferentdefinitions.WtheNewOxfordDictionaryofEnglish(1998)definesanidiomas“agroupofwordsorganizedbyusageashavingameaningnotdeduciblefromthoseoftheindividualwords.”LongmanDictionaryofAmericanEnglishwithChineseTranslation(1992):(1)Aphrasewhichme

7、anssomethingdifferentfromthemeanings15oftheseparatewords.(2)Thewayofexpressiontypicalofapersonorapeopleintheiruseoflanguage.TheAmericanHeritageDictionaryofEnglishLanguage(1983)definesanidiomas“anexpressionhavingaspecialmeaningnotobtainableornotclearfromtheusualmeaningofthe

8、wordsintheexpression,thespecialgrammatical,syntactic,andstructuralcharacterofagivenlangua