汉语动物类词汇的文化附加义探析

在语言中,词汇具有丰富的文化内涵,我们也称之为"文化附加义"。千百年来,在人类与动物的共同生活和发展中,人类创造了大量的动物类词汇,这类词汇形象鲜明,灵活多变,含有丰富的文化附加义,但同时也给学生尤其是母语为非汉语的学习者在理解上带来了一些困难。文章主要探析动物类词汇的文化附加义,并根据其文化附加义的来源将一些出现频率较高的动物类词汇进行分类梳理,以期对汉语学习者在理解和使用汉语动物类词汇时有所帮助。

In language,words are full of cultural connotation,which we also call"culture-added meaning".For thousands of years,human beings have created a large number of animal words during the concomitant life and development of human beings and animals.These words are vivid,flexible,and have a lot of culture-added meanings,but they also bring students,especially non-na tive Chinese learners a lot of difficulties in understanding.This paper mainly analyzed the culture-added meaning of animal words,classified and sorted out some high-frequency animal words according to the source of their culture-added meanings,so as to help Chinese learners to better understand and use these words.