Abstract: Due to different culture in China and in English-speaking countries,there must be some differences between social-cultural meanings or referents in Chinese and in English.In this paper,differences in words’conceptual and associative meanings concerned with culture are discussed to show the importance of culture,and finally communicative value of social-cultural meaning is illustrated to show the importance of fullyunderstanding and good uses of meanings of words in achieving successful communication.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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