完整版数字在中西方文化中的差异毕业设计.docx

1、完整版数字在中西方文化中的差异毕业设计分类号 密 级 编 号 本科生毕业论文题 目 数字在中西方文化中的差异 学 院 外国语学院 专 业 英 语 作者姓名 杜 变 变 班 级 2009级二班 指导教师 马 金 海 提交日期 2013. 5. 23 The Cultural Differences of Numerals between China and West CulturesDu BianbianA thesisSubmitted to the School of Foreign Languages and Literature Tianshui Normal University in

2、 partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree ofBACHELOR OF ARTSinENGLISH LANGUAGETianshui, GansuMay, 2013原创性声明本人郑重声明：本人所呈交的论文是在指导教师的指导下独立进行研究所取得的成果。学位论文中凡是引用他人已经发表或未经发表的成果、数据、观点等均已明确注明出处。除文中已经注明引用的内容外，不包含任何其他个人或集体已经发表或撰写过的科研成果。本声明的法律责任由本人承担。论文作者签名： 年 月 日 论文指导教师签名：一、 论文正文117二、 附录1 毕业论文成绩评定表

3、2 答辩小组意见3 答辩成绩评分表4 论文指导记录5 开题报告CONTENTSAbstract i摘要 ii. Introduction 1 . The Analysis of Numerals Differences between China and West Cultures.2 2.1 The Relationship between Numeral and Religion 2 2.1.1 The Typical Numerals in Western Religion 3 2.1.2 The Typical Numerals in Chinese Religion 4 2.2 Th

4、e Relationship between Numerals and National Psychology 5 2.2.1 Numerals and Chinese Psychology 6 2.2.2 Numerals and Western Psychology 8 2.2.3 Typical Taboo Numerals in Chinese and Western 9 2.3 The Relationship between Numerals and Language Aesthetics 10 2.3.1 Numerals and Chinese Aesthetics 10 2.

5、3.2 Numerals and English Aesthetics 12. The Cultural Differences of Numerals and Cross-Culture Communication 14. Conclusion 15References 17Acknowledgements iiiThe Cultural Differences of Numbers between Chinese and EnglishDu Bianbian【Abstract】The human languages convey profound historical cultures a

6、nd national features. And any language all over the world is rooted in a specific cultural background, reflecting the specific cultural contents. Numerals, being an extremely special language branch, have played crucial roles in the development of human society over thousand of years. Numerals and h

7、uman life are closely related to each other. The function of numeral in human culture is not only limited in the count of mathematics, but also is a mysterious cultural symbol, which forms a unique numeral culture phenomenon. Numeral plays an important role in human cultural exchanges and developmen

8、t, reflecting the distinctive cultural characteristics. However, there are quite a few differences in religious beliefs, ethical psychology culture, and languages aesthetics in Chinese and westerners, so numerals have been given to the different cultural connotations in different cultural contexts,

9、from the perspective of culture, this paper analyzes these factors to reduce misunderstandings in communication and promote the awareness of cross-cultural communication. Key Words: Numeral culture; Western culture and Chinese culture; Culture differences; Intercultural communication数字在中西方文化中的差异杜变变【

10、摘要】人类的语言传达深厚的历史文化和民族特色。世界各地的任何语言都是植根于特定的文化背景，反映了特定的文化内容。在数千年内，数字作为一种极其特殊的语言分支，在人类社会发展中发挥了至关重要的作用。数字在人类文化中的作用不仅限于数学中的计数，而且也是一种神秘的文化符号。然而，由于不同民族宗教信仰民族心理文化以及语言美学等诸因素在中西方文化中的差异，致使数字在不同的文化背景下已被赋予了不同的文化内涵。本文从文化的角度来分析这些因素，从而达到减少在跨文化交际中不同民族沟通的误解来促进真正意义上的跨文化交际的目的。【关键词】数字文化；中西方文化；文化差异；跨文化交际I. IntroductionLang

11、uage is an important constituent part of culture. The use of language gives an efficient expression to the culture connotation permeation, which makes the spread and expression of culture possible. In many cases, numeral is a kind of cultural symbol, which fully reflects a national multifaceted cult

12、ural features. Chinese and English are respectively from different culture systems. As a cultural phenomenon exists in all ethnic groups, it is the “common core” part of the culture, while numerals reference in virtually meaning and expression function are quite different from each other. In the con

13、sequence, it gradually formed the cultural differences of understanding between those two languages. World famous linguist John Taylor (Nida, 2001) discovered the earliest form of culture of the religious belief is “animism” in 1871. He pointed out the origins of the “animism are mythology and relig

14、ion.” What is the most important is that to some extent numerals spirit can control peoples fate. The westerners are deeply influenced by religious beliefs, they think numeral language is not only the general symbol, but also has magical power operating some certain things. So people often closely i

15、nvolve the numerology in their daily lives. Numeral correspondently connects with peoples concepts and is endowed with positive or negative cultural connotations. These clearly reflect the different national psychology culture. Whats more, British famous linguist Jennifer Seidl (Hu Wenzhong & Du Xue

16、zeng, 1989) thinks that “numeral and language can not be separated, you can not choose to use or not. Where there is number, there will be beauty”. Chinese scholar Wu Huiying (1990), wrote his excellent monograph about the development of culture and numbers, in which he stated “Numeralthe second gen

17、eration of Chinese language.” It clearly shows the close relationship in numerals and culture. Also quite a few researchers have been made deeply exploration of numerals in culture, several of which laid the profound fundamental base on the analysis of both the individual properties in Chinese and E

18、nglish. China Culture Linguistics, written by linguist Shen Xiaolong (1989), can be a good example of such researches, in which the Chinese culture and linguistics were studied. Numerals Heaven and Earth, written by scholar Zhang Dexing (1999), the typical examples of this field, in which he made a

19、point that “ the numeral differences are deeply involved with national psychology and tradition concepts for a long time.” In recent decades, many excellent essays concerning on the numeral differences between Chinese and westerners have been published. Cultural scientists and linguists are graduall

20、y aware of western culture factors that bring about numeral language very different with Chinese culture. From the three cultural dimensions that on the profound prior study from experts and scholars, this paper focus on the different aspects of religion, national psychology, language aesthetics to

21、mainly analyze Chinese and western culture differences. By comprehensively researching numerals in different cultural backgrounds, people coming from different cultures can get useful information and helps to respectively respect their own customs and culture to reduce misunderstandings in communica

22、tion and to achieve the awareness of cross-cultural communication in the information era of economic globalization.The Analysis of Numerals Differences between China and West Cultures2.1 The Relationship between Numeral and ReligionThere is a “blood relationship” between religion and myth. From the

23、point of cultural history, religion is often a core of cultural factor. Many civilized countries in their civilization history have appeared the dominant situation of the theological and religious culture, even appearing continuation in one thousand rather than liberation, but dominated by Confucian

24、ism in two thousand years, China had never been the dominant situation of theological and religious culture. Although there are various kinds of religious classics in China, it is not easy to find a book like the Bible that is all-round scientific saint and almost as the moon and the sun in west cou

25、ntries. The ancient Greek civilization and Hebrew civilization marked by the Bible together constitute the basic source of modern western culture and thoroughly clueless in the entire western ideology and culture filed, which has fully reflected in the numeral superstition (Guang Zhenbin, 2007). Thi

26、s article will choose some typical numerals both in two languages to illustrate the point.2.1.1 The Typical Numerals in Western ReligionIn the west, numeral “thirteen” is the NO. One big fear for the AngloAmerican. The reasons come from the ominous legends and stories in the Bible: Jesus and his dis

27、ciples all together are thirteen people in the last supper, due to one of them became a traitor and betrayed the Jesus, unfortunately Jesus was crucified on the cross and the very day was Friday. And the day that Cain killed his close brother was also on Friday. In the consequence from the various o

28、minous religion legends, Friday become an unlucky day and even sometime called it “black Friday” (Zhou Yuan, 2008). In addition, there was a kind of loop with thirteen rings in the middle ages of western and also the hank has thirteen steps, the executioner s salary are thirteen coins. This is the r

29、eason why the thirteen happen to be the same day with Friday would be ominous and fierce in the west custom. Virus on the network often broke out in the day. As opposed to the numeral thirteen, western people prefer the numeral three, seven, nine, ten etc. Numeral three is so cult because it symboli

30、zes the god of Trinity that means union of three persons in ChristianityFather, Son, Holy spirit in one God. There are three virtues in Christianity: loyalty, hope, and love for others. Numeral seven has the close relationship with seven kinds of deadly sins in religion: Pride, Wrath, Envy, Lust, Gl

31、uttony, Avarice, and Sloth, all of which warn people that only through this purgatory can people get into the heaven. As people all well known in the western culture, Christian believes God created everything in the world in seven days, so a week expressed in seven days has become the worlds univers

32、al timing method. Meanwhile, Jesus told people forgive others as many as seven times; the virgin Mary had seven happy things, seven sad things; the holy spirit has seven gift; persons life is divided into seven growth period; the prayer of lords is divided into seven parts. All of above specific examples mentioned have close relationship with religion and Christian legends. Whats more, since the seven archbishops in Greek, so western rel