%0 Journal Article
%T A Contrastive Study of the Connotative Meaning of Linguistic Signs in English and Chinese
%A Yanchun Zhou
%J Theory and Practice in Language Studies
%D 2011
%I 
%R 10.4304/tpls.1.12.1865-1867
%X According to G. Leech¡¯s classification of meaning, the denotative meaning of a word is different from its connotative one. The denotation of a linguistic sign may be the same in different languages, but their connotations may be quite different. The paper makes a contrastive analysis of the connotative meaning of linguistic signs in English and Chinese, such as Color terms, Kinship terms, Animal-related Words and Euphemisms. It also discusses the reason for the differences between the two languages.
%K connotative meaning
%K color terms
%K kinship terms
%K animal-related words
%K euphemisms
%K English and Chinese
%U http://ojs.academypublisher.com/index.php/tpls/article/view/6127