英美民族文化心理及其在词汇中的映射

British & American Cultural Psychology and its Reflections in Vocabulary

英美民族崇尚求新、求曲、求简、求特的文化心理并注重个体、平等、竞争和直爽敢言、积极参与、自我肯定的外向型性格,决定了英语词汇呈现个性化和标新立异的特点,同时也最直接、最生动地通过词汇映射出来.

British & American cultural psychology mainly lies in novelty, euphemism, originality, simplicity and is characterized by being straight-forward, actively participant and self-affirmative. Much emphasis is also laid on individuality, quality and competition. Such a remarkable cultural psychology is directly and vividly reflected in English vocabulary and, just as a result of this, English vocabulary is, on the whole, unique and original.