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1、DifferencesbetweenChineseandEnglishSurnames1IntroductionOneofthemoststablepersonalidentitiesofhumanbeings,apersonalsurnameisthesymbolofthedistinctionofthebloodrelationship,whichiscloselyrelatedtothereligion,historyandthetraditionofanationalityandacomponentofthelanguageandcultureofacou
2、ntry.Inthecourseofhumanhistory,ChineseandEnglishSurnameshavetheirowncharacteristics,buttheymayhavesomethingincommon.Bycomparisonandcontrast,wewillhaveageneralunderstandingofChineseandEnglishSurnamesfromtheorigins,typeofsources,meanings,forms,developmentandthecausesofdifferencesbetween
3、ChineseandEnglishsurname2ComparisonbetweenChineseandEnglishsurnamesTherearesomedifferencesinorigins,typeofsources,meaningsandformsbetweenChineseandEnglishsurnames.2.1OriginsofsurnamesinChineseandEnglish InChina,thefamilynameswereoriginatedfromthematriarchalsocietyoftheancienttimes,and
4、ownedahistoryofmorethanfivethousandyears.Atthattime,thefamilynameswereusedtomakeadistinctionamongthedifferentfamiliesaswellasthedifferentmarriagesinChina.Therefore,itcanbeseenthatfamilynamewasasymbolofthe bloodrelationshipallthetime. 13 IntheancienttimesofBritain,theancestors(Anglo-S
5、axons)oftheBritishonlyhadtheirnamesbutdidnothavethefamilynames.Generallyspeaking,thenamesofAnglo-Saxonswereverysimple.AndmostAnglo-Saxonnameswerecomposedofagenerally-usedname.In1066,theNormansmadeanincursioninBritain,andbroughtthefamilynamesystemofFrancestoBritainatthesametime.Duringt
6、heinitialperiod,thefamilynameswereonlyusedinthosefeudalaristocracies.Inthefollowing500years,however,theBritishformedtheirowncompletesurnamesystemwithagradualstep.2.2TypesofthesourcesofsurnamesinChineseLanguageandEnglishLanguage DifferenttypesfthesourcesofsurnamesinChineseandEnglishlan
7、guage.2.2.1TypesoftheSourcesofthesurnamesofChinesePeopleThefamilynamesystemofChinesepeoplemainlytakesthefamilynamesoftheHan-nationalityasthebasis.Accordingtotheanalysis,thetypesofthesourcesofthefamilynamesofChinesepeoplecanbeconcludedasfollows. (1)Thesurnamesofthemothersorthetotemso
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