The Cultural Connotation of Animal Words in English and Chinese

Abstract

The paper maintains that animal words,widely used in both English and Chinese,re flect the similarities and differences of the two languages and,based on an anal ysis of the human characteristics of cultural connotations in animal words,it ex plains and compares the general and specific characters of these words used in English and Chinese from the perspective of human culture evolution.It further a rgues that due attention should be given to the culture connotations of animal w ords in cross-cultural communication.