This dissertation aims to discuss the differences of politeness between English and Chinese greetings. Examples and experiments are carried out to study different uses of greetings in different language communities according to daily topics,...

The differences of kinship address term between English and Chinese are influenced by the degree of attention paid to blood relationships, value orientation and so on. However, the cultural differences between English and Chinese also lead t...

Turning next to consider common characteristics of love in English proverbs. Then the differences of love metaphor between English and Chinese proverbs are described. Finally, the comparative analysis of metaphor of love proverbs between Eng...

文章从英汉名词的分类及形合与意合方面对两者进行了对比。英汉名词的对比研究不能停留在表面，还应从英汉的语言、思维等的多重角度去思考两者的区别。这样才能从本质上了解英...

This paper will demonstrate the English and Chinese kinship terms from sociolinguistics. It will also take the cultural differences as the background to make a further discussion of the translation of Chinese and English kinship terms....

this thesis aims to prove that onomatopoeia is iconically correspondent to its referent, by analyzing and classifying onomatopoeia. And then, according to the above, this thesis tries to put forward phonetic iconicity, and develop it into so...

As a common phenomenon in the process of language using, euphemism exists in all the different cultures. There are many different euphemisms in both English and Chinese. They seem similar, but they develop from different origins based on var...

Organized into five chapters, it starts with an introduction to lead the readers in, followed by the literature review to provide the present situation and relevant theories. Then cultural connotation of animal words and cultural influences ...

It is widely accepted that the language phenomena of untranslatability are not absolutely “untranslatable”. In translation practice, when dealing with this kind of phenomena, the translators always make great efforts to get a relatively ...

This essay will discuss about the cultural functional equivalence from the following aspects, the definition of the English idiom, cultural orientation and mistranslation, techniques of idioms translation and English idioms and customs....

There are some famous words in ancient times in China. One of them says” the victory of the war needs three important conditions: the good weather, favorable geographical position and the support of people.” But what is the real relation...

English is widely used in the world now. Because of the different ways of thinking between different nations, different English variants come into being. In China, China English and Chinglish were born against this background. Both of them a...

it would causes unsuccessful cross-cultural communication. A comparative study of polite language between English and Chinese, will urge English learners to reduce the faults in using cross-cultural language, and will simultaneously achieve...

This thesis studies the conceptual metaphors of love and explores the similar and different central conceptual metaphors in English and Chinese from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. By analyzing and comparing a large number of love ...

Address terms are the words speakers use to designate the person they are talking to in communication and they are an indispensable part of human verbal communication. The address terms can be used to establish, maintain, enhance or break do...