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Chinese Is The Symbol Of Digital Research

Posted on:2012-03-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y Y DaiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2245330395464443Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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Chinese auspicious words is unique expressions in Chinese traditional culture, especially "one or two, three or four, five or six, seven or eight, nine or ten, hundreds, and thousands or million", this unique form of language, consisting of these commonly used numbers, is called numeral auspicious talk.This paper can be divided into five chapters except the introduction section:The first chapter is the overview of the numeral auspicious talk. Firstly, the chapter introduces the origin of numeral auspicious talk is derived from worship of language and number. Secondly, we define the numeral auspicious words is fixed words and phrases, which is containing numbers and is able to express good wishes. At last, the researcher categorizes the numeral auspicious talk.The second chapter is the features of numeral auspicious talk. This chapter analyses component of numeral auspicious talk, since the proportion of the four-character numeral auspicious talk is83%of the total corpus, so we especially analyze the causes, grammatical structure and the relationship of morphological transformation and the meaning of the four-character numeral auspicious talk.The third chapter is the lucky elements, the formation methods and profound cultural connotation of the numeral auspicious talk, we found that the numbers in numeral auspicious talk is no longer just simple symbols, but is endowed with rich auspicious culture meaning. Language is the carrier of culture, It can be widely embodied the rich cultural connotation and reflected the culture of the Chinese concept by analysis the number auspicious talk.The fourth chapter is analysis of metaphors of numbers in the numeral auspicious talk. This chapter uses cognitive metaphor theory to analysis the metaphorical meaning of numbers in the numeral auspicious talk one by one. We learn that these commonly used numbers more or less been given various auspicious significance in a long history, this is the crystallization of people’s psychology and traditional cultural wisdom.The fifth chapter is development and usage of numeral auspicious talk. This chapter represents the features of numeral auspicious talk in the process of development. Numeral auspicious talk is an important social language in people life. The researcher describes the phenomenon of usage on lucky numbers nowadays, and discuses how we can have a rational attitude and use it properly.
Keywords/Search Tags:Numeral Auspicious Talk, Cultural Connotation, Metaphor
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