英汉常见颜色词的文化差异

随着全球一体化和国际交往的频繁化,缩小文化差异,有效进行交流是大势所趋。而英汉颜色词的文化内涵却有着很大的差异,要想成功进行英汉交流,了解其常见颜色词的共性和文化差异也是交流和日常阅读中不可或缺的一部分。     

英汉颜色词的文化差异与翻译

英汉两种语言的基本颜色词大致相同.但由于两个民族不同的文化背景、风俗习惯、思维方式和审美情趣,这些颜色词的文化内涵又不尽相同.     

Affective rating of color and black-and-white pictures

How does color affect students’ feelings about pictures? Do those feelings vary with sex and age? This study sought to answer those questions by having 148 4th, 7th, and 12th graders rate color and black-and-white slides on nine semantic differential scales — good/bad, happy/ sad, fair/unfair, large/small, strong/weak, heavy/light, fast/slow, hot/cold, restless/ quiet — and a blue/red scale.     

Cultural capital and the perception of feedback

This study draws on the concept of cultural capital to determine whether the cultural capital of students is related to their perceptions of classroom interactions, specifically teacher–student feedback practices. The analysis of new data in ‘Feedback and Cultural Capital,’ a Danish survey of feedback practices among 14-year-old and 15-year-old students (N?=?1101), showed a positive and practically linear relationship between the cultural capital of the students and the amount of feedback they perceived in lower secondary mathematics classrooms. Drawing on Bourdieu’s theory of cultural reproduction in education, I argue that this inequality stems from either or both of two mechanisms: differences in treatment by teachers and/or differences in the perceptions of students. I link both mechanisms to the cultural capital of the students. Furthermore, the results indicate that the relationship was stronger for boys than for girls. The implications of the findings for practice and policy are discussed.     

Gender differences in the perception and acceptance of online games

With the proliferation of online games, understanding users' intention to play online games has become a new issue for academics and practitioners. Prior studies have investigated the factors affecting behavioural intention to play online games. However, little research has been conducted to investigate the gender differences in the acceptance of online games. Thus, this study is to investigate the effects of perceived playfulness and its potential antecedents (ie, computer self-efficacy, computer anxiety, challenge, speed and feedback) on the behavioural intention to play online games, and to examine the gender differences in the perception and acceptance of online games. Data collected from 281 respondents in Taiwan were tested against the research model using analysis of variance and structural equation modelling approaches. The theoretical and practical implications of the results were discussed.     

论英汉习语的文化差异

习语是某一语言在使用过程中形成的独特的固定的表达方式。本文中要讨论的习语是广义的概念,包括谚语、成语、典故、歇后语等。英汉两种语言历史悠久,其中大量的习语,或严肃、典雅,或含蓄、幽默,不仅言简意赅,而且形象生动,妙趣横生。由于地理条件、历史文化、价值观念、宗教信仰、生活习俗等方面的差异,英汉习语承载着不同的民族文化特色和文化信息,它们与文化传统紧密相连,不可分割。     

Individual differences in young children's recall and clustering of pictures

Children's incidental recall of pictures was examined in two related experiments. Extrapolating from adult research, it was predicted that categorizing pictures with respect to their semantic properties would yield greater recall than categorizing them according to their physical properties. In Experiment 1, second-grade children were exposed to 16 line drawings cross-classified to represent four taxonomic categories and four shape categories, with four instances per category. Control subjects simply looked at pictures. Semantic subjects identified each picture's semantic category, and Physical subjects identified each physical category. In Experiment 2, first graders freely sorted the pictures and were classified as Semantic or Physical sorters based on their predominant bases for sorting. Following exposure (Experiment 1) or sorting (Experiment 2), all subjects were asked to recall the picture names. Results of both experiments show that semantic classification yields greater recall than physical classification. Experiment 2 also shows that semantic sorting yields greater semantic clustering in recall and that sorting by physical category yields greater physical clustering. It was suggested that children's preferences for a mode of processing (Experiment 2) may constitute an individual difference dimension with fairly clear-cut instructional implications.     

文化差异与商标词的翻译

商品命名往往赋予商标词丰富的化内涵，但对这种内涵的理解因化背景不同而产生差异。通过实例分析，并结合国际惯例，提出中国出口商品商标词的三种翻译方法，强调商标词的化内涵应有针对性，使之适应不同化背景的外国消费，从而促进产品外销。     

法国汉语教学中的文化差异及教学策略探讨

语言是基于一定文化背景的,法国汉语教学的成效在很大程度上受文化交流程度影响,解决好不同文化差异问题,在教学中渗透文化,是跨文化语言教学的重中之重。本篇文章主要围绕中法文化差异展开,从几个方面探讨了如何行之有效的开展汉语教学,深化文化交流,希望本文内容可以为教育同仁提供一定的参考。     

概念隐喻与文化意象

隐喻是语言系统的精华,是人类认知、思维和行为的方式,它产生于建立在相似形基础之上由始源域向目标域的映射过程。概念隐喻是隐喻的具体表现形式;文化意象是概念隐喻的知识来源和建构基础。概念隐喻是由人类经验和文化意象衍生而来,其形成依赖于丰富的想象和类比。本文以以上理论为基础,分析了文化意象形成概念隐喻的跨文化取向性和差异性。     

英语习语性隐喻的文化透视

文章依照莱考夫等学者对隐喻范畴的界定,分析英汉成语和谚语中习语性隐喻的共性和个性特征的成因,重点讨论了英语隐喻所体现的西方文化;同时指出对于外语学习者来说,隐喻通常会带来理解和运用障碍.学习者只有不断汲取目标语文化知识,才能逐步提高识别、运用隐喻的能力.     

从中西文化差异看英译汉中的遣词

语言是文化的组成部分.不同的语言反映了不同的文化,而不同的文化又对不同的语言产生影响.词汇是语言的基本成分,遣词则与特定的文化相关.研究中、英文的遣词有助于提高表达能力,对于翻译艺术也颇有启发.     

维吾尔语拟声词形象色彩探究

维吾尔语是维吾尔族文化和风俗习惯的综合反映,维吾尔语拟声词的形象色彩能使语言描述更加生动形象。本文主要根据维吾尔语的语言特点,分析维吾尔语拟声词的形象色彩及其分类、修辞作用、特点和修饰形象色彩丢失的原因,以提高维吾尔语语言教学。     

文化差异与电影片名翻译的处理研究

电影文化随着现代电影技术和电影市场的不断增长而蓬勃发展起来,作为一种国际化的文化传播载体,电影在国际文化的交流上起着重要的作用。同时,电影也是当代大学生、受高等教育的人学习英语国家语言和文化的最佳途径之一,教师要引导学生学会欣赏英文电影,并推荐他们观看一些佳品。电影片名被视为电影的点睛之处,在传递东西方文化上突出的体现了文化差异性。本文主要通过分析中西方电影片名的翻译,解读起文化的差异性,并提出具有建设性意义的翻译方式和技巧。