The abundant resources of proverbs illustrate their meaningful ideas both in Chinese proverbs and English proverbs, reflecting ordinary lives and regarded as the essence of culture in both countries. So American cultu...The abundant resources of proverbs illustrate their meaningful ideas both in Chinese proverbs and English proverbs, reflecting ordinary lives and regarded as the essence of culture in both countries. So American culture inherited many marvelous traditions from English proverbs and American proverbs must be influenced by English proverbs too. My paper will compare Chinese and American culture through proverbs, aiming at observing the differences of the culture value conception between Chinese and Americans, and hope that this study also can be regarded as a data to give referential meaning to the further research on cross-culture and language comparison.展开更多
Proverbs are an important part of language and culture in a society.The appropriate use of which is a mark of a language learner’s command of the language.This paper analyses the social characteristics of English pro...Proverbs are an important part of language and culture in a society.The appropriate use of which is a mark of a language learner’s command of the language.This paper analyses the social characteristics of English proverbs based on sociolinguistics and illustrates these features from four main factors concerning nature,men,culture and customs so as to enhance language learners’ awareness to comprehend and utilize proverbs in the light of these social characteristics in a precise and accurate way.展开更多
文摘The abundant resources of proverbs illustrate their meaningful ideas both in Chinese proverbs and English proverbs, reflecting ordinary lives and regarded as the essence of culture in both countries. So American culture inherited many marvelous traditions from English proverbs and American proverbs must be influenced by English proverbs too. My paper will compare Chinese and American culture through proverbs, aiming at observing the differences of the culture value conception between Chinese and Americans, and hope that this study also can be regarded as a data to give referential meaning to the further research on cross-culture and language comparison.
文摘Proverbs are an important part of language and culture in a society.The appropriate use of which is a mark of a language learner’s command of the language.This paper analyses the social characteristics of English proverbs based on sociolinguistics and illustrates these features from four main factors concerning nature,men,culture and customs so as to enhance language learners’ awareness to comprehend and utilize proverbs in the light of these social characteristics in a precise and accurate way.