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A Contrastive Study of the Connotative Meaning of Linguistic Signs in English and Chinese

Yanchun Zhou

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According to G. Leech's classification of meaning, the denotative meaning of a word is different from its connotative one.The denotation of a linguistic sign may be the same in different languages, but their connotations may be quite different.The paper makes a contrastive analysis of the connotative meaning of linguistic signs in English and Chinese, such as Color terms, Kinship terms, Animal-related Words and Euphemisms.It also discusses the reason for the differences between the two languages.

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According to G. Leech's classification of meaning, the denotative meaning of a word is different from its connotative one.The denotation of a linguistic sign may be the same in different languages, but their connotations may be quite different.The paper makes a contrastive analysis of the connotative meaning of linguistic signs in English and Chinese, such as Color terms, Kinship terms, Animal-related Words and Euphemisms.It also discusses the reason for the differences between the two languages.

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According to G. Leech's classification of meaning, the denotative meaning of a word is different from its connotative one.The denotation of a linguistic sign may be the same in different languages, but their connotations may be quite different.The paper makes a contrastive analysis of the connotative meaning of linguistic signs in English and Chinese, such as Color terms, Kinship terms, Animal-related Words and Euphemisms.It also discusses the reason for the differences between the two languages.

Key concepts: Linguistics, Meaning (existential), Psychology, Contrastive analysis, Philosophy, Psychotherapist

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