人体器官相关英语习语研究.doc

(北京) CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM 毕 业 论 文 Study on English Idioms on Human Organs 院系名称： 外语系 专业名称： 英 语 学生姓名： 学 号： 指导教师： 完成日期 2005年6月10日 人体器官相关英语习语研究 摘 要 习语是人类语言文化的结晶,正确地使用会给我们的话语及写作增添; 习语; 人体; 器官 Study on English Idioms on Human Organs Abstract Idioms or set phrases are important products of the language and culture of a society. Proper use of them would add color to one’s speech and writing. Yet, few people have studied English idioms with respect to parts of human body. Briefly, it introduces definitions of English idioms, their characteristics as well as their classification; it probes into the origins, how they are related to religions, myths, legends or fables; the history, the colloquial speech of common people, the literatures, and classical works. It explains the characteristics- the figurative meaning and variants; therefore, we find out the same and their differences in human-organ idioms. Also it deals with the applications to cross-culture communication, and gives some suggestions to learners in learning course. We summarize the whole by reinforcing the significance of the thesis, pointing out lacks of theoretical foundations in the thesis, and hoping further study on English human-organ idioms can make the study more complete. We draw a conclusion that different human-organ idioms express different emotions of human beings, i.e. happiness, unhappiness, fear, worry, anger, etc; we can see that human-organ idioms convey a diversification of emotions of human beings, it instructs behaviors of human beings in their daily life. Therefore, we should not expect to act exactly like a foreigner, but to guide ourselves to avoid cultural misunderstanding and conflicts. We should know the implicative and characteristics of idioms on human organs with the communicative behaviors, and to find where the misunderstanding and conflicts may lie as well as the ways to avoid them