On two Different Fictional Connotations Between Heterogeneous Natural Languages

DOI

10.2991/emcs-16.2016.18How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Phoenix; Connotation; Chinese culture; Western culture; History

Abstract

Every language is closely related to its culture. Due to historical events, cultural traditions, religious beliefs, natural environment factors, and other aspects, cultures both in English and Chinese language gives animal words specific and different cultural connotations, forming their own specific animal culture. It is the basic content of the national animal culture for a variety of connotation’s attitude of animal words. This paper mainly introduces the difference of the Dragon’s and Phoenix’s connotations between Chinese and western cultures. Impacted by difference events and cultures, the same imagery will be given different connotations. Combining with the paragraphs mentioned above, it will be clear to see that connotations of “Dragon” and “Phoenix” are influencing different culture backgrounds such as religions, histories, imaginations and so on.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chen Diao
AU  - Wanzhang Liu
AU  - Ning Cai
AU  - Changhui Tian
AU  - Lin Xue
PY  - 2016/01
DA  - 2016/01
TI  - On two Different Fictional Connotations Between Heterogeneous Natural Languages
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Education, Management, Computer and Society
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 74
EP  - 77
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/emcs-16.2016.18
DO  - 10.2991/emcs-16.2016.18
ID  - Diao2016/01
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