Social Functions of English Proverbs30

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

2、…...……………………….51.Establishedforms………………………………………………………62.Essentialfeatures………………………………………………………63.Stylisticcharacteristics…………………………………………………64.Analysisfromdifferentangles…………………………………………..6V.SocialFunctionsofEnglishProverbs………..………………………….71.Thefunctiontomoralize…………………………………………………72.Thefunctionto

3、spreadknowledgeandexperience…...……………………83.Thefunctiontoadvise…………………………...………………………94.Thefunctiontomakedescriptioninliterature…...………………………105.Thefunctiontopractiseinsociety………………………………………10VI.Conclusion………………….…………………………………………12References…………………………………...…………………………..….12SocialFunctionsofEnglishPro

4、verbsSocialFunctionsofEnglishProverbsAbstract:Proverbsarebrief,memorablesayingsthatofferethicaldirectioninspecificlanguagesituationsfromgenerationtogeneration.Theyareafeatureinalmostallcultures,historically,aswellastoday.Asagroupofwordswithaspecialmeaningdifferentfromthemeaningofitsconstituentwords

5、,proverbcanbedefinedasacombinationoftwoormorewords,whichareusuallystructurallyfixedandsemanticallyopaque,andthefunctionasasingleunitofmeaning.Itisanestablishedform,inwhichthecomponentwords,wordorder,meaningsandgrammaticalfunctionofeachproverbshouldbelearnedasawhole.Englishproverbsareessentialpartso

6、fthegeneralvocabulary,reflecttheenvironment,life,history,andcultureofthenativespeakers,andarecloselyassociatedwiththeirinnermostspiritsandfeeling.Englishproverbscontainingtheabundantcontenthaveingeniouslanguageforms,vividrhetoricmethods,havebeenprovedtohaveextensivesocialfunctions.Generallyspeaking

7、,itmanifeststhefollowingsocialfunctions:Thefunctiontomoralize;thefunctiontospreadknowledgeandexperience;thefunctiontoadvise;thefunctiontomakedescriptioninliterature;thefunctiontopractiseinsociety.Keywords:E