Title: Cultural Influences on the Vocabulary Connotation
Abstract: A word carries cultural connotations, depending on the cultural influence from elite literature, historical and political events, values of diverse nationalities, national semantic sense, cognitive modes and social life and experiences, etc. Certainly, the choice of one meaning over another of a word is closely related to the cultural endowment. Along with the vast differences between western and oriental culture goes the varied cultural diversities concerning a word and its collocations in Chinese and English. Therefore, a translator with acute cultural sensitivity and rich cultural schema can make the proper choice between a word's denotation and connotation as well as decide on what it implies in the concrete context.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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