《中英姓名文化比较》前置部分.doc

A Cultural Comparison Between Chinese and English Names Specialty: English Name: Niu Xiaolong Student ID: 405417160101 Advisor: Dong Aizhi Huaxin College SJZUE Jun, 2009 Acknowledgements In writing this paper, I have benefited from the presence of my teachers in the ShiJiaZhuang University of Economics. Their classes are paving stones to my accomplishing this paper. I also wish to sincerely thank my classmates and friends whose most helpful advice has helped me to enrich my paper. I hereby extend my grateful thanks to my teachers and my colleagues for their kind and indispensable assistance. My grateful thanks go particularly to Dongaizhi, my advisor, who spent much of her precious time discussing with me and helping me to narrow the topic at the initial stages, as well as showing great concern for my progress. I am deeply indebted for her assistance in helping me to accomplish this study. Without her encouragement and specific guidance, the completion of this thesis would have been impossible. In addition, she has been very kind to me whenever I confronted problems during the project. Also, I hereby express my sincere gratitude to the teaching staff and students, who helped me to do the data collection I needed for this project. They have generously offered their help at the preparatory stage during this study. Finally, I thank the subjects whose cooperation and participation contributed to the very basis for this research work. Niu xiaolong Abstract China and Britain has had a long history, in which the long river of history, name, as a unique and ancient carriers of cultures, has been kept for thousands of years. Chinese and English names are full of extremely rich cultural and historical connotations, and result in cultural gap between Chinese and English. Personal names are not only symbols that distinguish one person from others, but also social symbols. It is “a mirror of culture”. As the name needs language to help to mark, and