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Chapter One Introduction

1.1 Statement of Purpose
The  purpose  of  the  thesis  was  to  explore  the  connotative  meanings  and  the problems  of  the  Chinese  word  of  “Xi”  in  its  English  translations  in  the  context  of cultural  differences.  In  the  view  of  semantics,  the  connotative  meanings  of  a  word refers to the additional meanings that a word or its phrase has beyond its conceptual meanings, one of the seven types of the division of meaning by Geoffrey Leech. The definition of the connotative meaning means that it is the meaning of a word that can show  the  emotions  and  attitudes  of  its  user  associated  with  a  word  or  a  phrase relatively. In the connotative meanings, cultural specific meanings, as known as the folk-custom meaning, symbolic meanings are there within in the cultural perspective, these meanings of a word are the signified meaning of words tinged with an ethnic group’s cultural connotation. In another sense, they have the features of the affective meaning,  reflective  meaning,  social  meaning,  collocative  meaning  and  thematic meaning.  The cultural loaded words in a language system are the specific words with the  roots  in  the  history,  social  activities,  they  are  the  words  among  the  most  popular words,  among  the  fixed  phrases  or  idioms  used  in  the  daily  communications,  and some of connotative meanings in them given to by its people, users, or even with the changes of time. As these meanings are not as objective as the denotative type, the connotative meanings, cultural-specific meanings or symbolic meaning of a word in the communications are often not very clear, and the blur in their translated version of  a  saying  often  causes  problems  in  understanding,  that  is  to  say  the  none-native speakers  can  not  get  the  translated  meanings  or  grow  a  wrong  picture  from  it,  or even refuse to accept the concept.  
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1.2 Historical Background of the Problem 
In previous studies translators paid more attention to the literary translation and specialized-subject  translation.  Many  researches  show  that  literary  translation including  novel  translation,  scientific  and  technical  article  translation,  poem translation  and  idiom  translation  is  very  popular  with  language  scholars.  However, poetic  translation  and  idiom  translation  are  poor  in  translation  studies  because previous  studies  exists  shortage  in  explaining  the  acceptability  of  translation  and unknowing of target language readers.   The Chinese word of “Xi” is the one among the most popular auspicious本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。