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A COMPARISON OF THE CONNOTATION BETWEEN ENGLISH AND CHINESE ANIMAL WORDS
化交流的影响。然后，本文为跨文化交流提出了一些建议。最后，得出结论：语言是文化的载体，不同民族的语言呈现出丰富多彩的文化特性。在跨文化交流过程中，我们应该更加重视英汉动物词汇的文化内涵差异，尽可能丰富我们在不同文化领域的知识。在全球化的时代，中西文化交流日益频繁。通过本文，人们能够进一步了解英汉动物词汇的文化差异，顺利进行跨文化交流。
关键字：动物词汇；英语和汉语；文化内涵；对比
Contents
1. Introduction 1
2. Connotations of English and Chinese Animal Words 1
Connotation of animal words in Chinese and English 1
Animal words with the same connotations 2
Animal words with different connotations 3
Animal words with similar connotations 6
Semantic gaps 7
Animal words with rich connotations in Chinese 7
Animal words with rich connotations in English 8
3. The Causes of Discrepancy in the Connotation between English and Chinese Animal Words 9
Religion 10
History 10
Geographical environment 11
Aesthetic orientation 11
4. Influences of the Connotation of Animal Words on Intercultural Communication 12
5. Suggestions for Intercultural Communication 13
6. Conclusion 14
Bibliography 16
A Comparison of the Connotation between English and Chinese Animal Words
1. Introduction
The intimate relationship with animals makes human beings have complex emotions, such as fondness, sympathy, disgust and horror, etc. Humans often place their feelings on animals and use animals to express feelings as well. Many animal words and phrases are endowed with connotations in English and Chinese. Therefore, learning about the different connotations of English and Chinese animal words can help English learners to correctly understand this language. Animal words have the same, different or similar connotations in English and Chinese. In most cases, although both English and Chinese have the same referential meanings of animal words, the connotations of these animal words are different (Shang Qi, 2006). This is caused by religion, history, geographical environment and aes