汉英对比分析:数词之语言与文化蕴义

A Contrastive Approach to Chinese and English Numerals

数词是人类最早认识和使用的词类之一，不少数词在语言的发展过程中获得了十分丰富的语言意义和民俗文化意义，本文从文化语言学的角度出发，通过汉英对比的方法，探讨了数词在语言，文化和习俗三个层面上的意义和作用，揭示了一些特殊词所蕴含的民俗文化意义，数词既是一种语言现象，又是一种典型的民俗文化现象，值得我们深入地探讨与研究。

Numerals, one of the earliest and most commonly used parts of speech, have been gaining more and more linguistic values and cultural connotations in the development of language. Cultural linguistically, the paper tries to discuss their linguistic values as well as their special cultural connotations of both Chinese and English numbers by means of comparison and contrast.