汉语动植物词语文化涵义的形成

The Formation of the Cultural Meaning of the Words of Animals and Plants in Chinese Language

人们将人类的某些特定品质与某些动植物的外貌特征、生理习性和生存方式等相联系,产生了许多以动植物名称为语素的、联想意义丰富的动植物词语。它们不仅具有固定的、独立于语境的基本意义,同时还具有能反映独特的民族文化心理、依赖于社会文化的深层文化涵义。这是根据动植物的表征、名称谐音以及历史典故而形成的。

To relate certain characteristics to the out-looking, physical habits and the way of living, human being have produced many word of animals and plants with the names of animals and plant as the phoneme to express very rich meanings. They not only have the fixed, independent basic meaning, but also reflect the unique cultural mentality and the deep-structure cultural meanings depending on the social culture. It has formed according to the token of the animals and plants and name partial tone and historic literary quotations.