Cross-cultural Analysis Of The Time Of The Semantic Field

Each culture is full of cultural keywords. These keywords are imprinted with deep national and cultural characteristics, reflecting the material culture, value of life, value of world and way of life of the nation. As an important category in cultures, the words in time semantic field is a reflection of the differences between different nations in way of cognition and culture. The paper focuses analysis on time semantic field, analyzes words in time semantic field by making comprehensive use of multi-perspectives of semantics, cultural linguistics, coginitive linguistics to examine the meaning of cultural keywords on a Chinese-English basis. It aims to make a deeper insight into the cultural value of time semantic field, enrich the research of time category and make contributions to intercultural communication.