Social Functions of English Proverbs 毕业论文

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1、英语谚语的社交功能SocialFunctionsofEnglishProverbsContentsAbstract……………………………………………………………………...1Keywords…………………………………………………………………...1I.Introduction………………………………………………………………2II.LiteratureReview……………...………………………………...………3III.ClassificationsofEnglishProverbs…………………………………..5IV.CharacteristicsofEnglishPr

2、overbs…………...……………………….51.Establishedforms………………………………………………………62.Essentialfeatures………………………………………………………63.Stylisticcharacteristics…………………………………………………64.Analysisfromdifferentangles…………………………………………..6V.SocialFunctionsofEnglishProverbs………..………………………….71.Thefunctiontomoralize……………………………………………

3、……72.Thefunctiontospreadknowledgeandexperience…...……………………83.Thefunctiontoadvise…………………………...………………………94.Thefunctiontomakedescriptioninliterature…...………………………105.Thefunctiontopractiseinsociety………………………………………10VI.Conclusion………………….…………………………………………12第14页References…………………………………...…………………………..

4、….12SocialFunctionsofEnglishProverbsAbstract:Proverbsarebrief,memorablesayingsthatofferethicaldirectioninspecificlanguagesituationsfromgenerationtogeneration.Theyareafeatureinalmostallcultures,historically,aswellastoday.Asagroupofwordswithaspecialmeaningdifferentfromthemeaningofitsconstitu

5、entwords,proverbcanbedefinedasacombinationoftwoormorewords,whichareusuallystructurallyfixedandsemanticallyopaque,andthefunctionasasingleunitofmeaning.Itisanestablishedform,inwhichthecomponentwords,wordorder,meaningsandgrammaticalfunctionofeachproverbshouldbelearnedasawhole.Englishproverbsa

6、reessentialpartsofthegeneralvocabulary,reflecttheenvironment,life,history,andcultureofthenativespeakers,andarecloselyassociatedwiththeirinnermostspiritsandfeeling.Englishproverbscontainingtheabundantcontenthaveingeniouslanguageforms,vividrhetoricmethods,havebeenprovedtohaveextensivesocialf

7、unctions.Generallyspeaking,itmanifeststhefollowingsocialfunctions:Thefunctiontomoralize;thefunctiontospreadknowledgeandexperience;thefunctiontoadvise;thefunctiontomakedescriptioninliterature;thefunctiontopractiseinsociety.Keywords:Englishproverbs；classificatio