Title: A Contrastive Study on the Associative Meanings of the Vehicles of the English and Chinese Idioms
Abstract: This essay centers on a contrastive study on the associative meanings of the vehicles of English and Chinese idioms,and a further analysis on their cultural connotation of the vehicles.The corresponding relations fall into three categories: overlapping on both the associative meanings and the vehicles,non-correspondence in the vehicles and the associative meanings,and vacancy in either vehicles or associative meanings.It aims to help the readers to have a thorough understanding of the associative meanings of the vehicles of English idioms in terms of cultural connotation and to have a good command of English idioms.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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