A Research on the Origin and the Main Characteristics of Culture-loaded Words

DOI

10.2991/cesses-19.2019.138How to use a DOI?

Keywords

research; culture-loaded words; analysis; origin; characteristic

Abstract

As a special social linguistic cultural phenomenon, culture-loaded words play a very important role in the social communication and the cultural activities, having a great influence on people's thought, behavior as well as their life styles. Therefore, carrying out some researches on culture-loaded words can not only enhance the mutual understanding and tolerance between different people from different cultural background, it will also be favorable for different people to get along well with each other. This thesis starts with the explanation on the definition and classification of culture-loaded words, then the author makes a detail analysis on the origin of culture-loaded words from the following aspects: the ecological environment; the religious belief; the social material life as well as the literature and arts. After that, an elaborate explanation has been made on the characteristics of culture-loaded words at the following different points; the words from different cultures have the similar meanings; the words with different forms have the similar meanings in different cultures; the words with the same form have different meanings in different cultures; the words from one culture don't have their equivalences in another culture. Finally, the author points out that with the carrying out of some relevant research on culture-loaded words in a deep-going way, more and more problems will be solved and some more feasible suggestions will be given in strengthening the mutual understanding between different cultures, which must be beneficial to build up a harmonious world.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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