中韩惯用语所体现的文化内涵对比

Abstract

Idiom is a kind of short and finalized language type and language expression that people love to see and hear. It is also proper to say that idiom is the production of human beings’ cognitive activities, possessing the attribute of surpassing nation, history and cultural background. Idiom comes from working people’s oral speech and people’s daily life, and it is closely related with people’s living environment and spiritual culture. Since idiom reflects users’ cultural background and psychological habits and is crystal of user’s experience, people recognize cultural and psychological background reflected by this idiom if they recognize an idiom. Idioms in different languages will be influenced by their nations’ history and culture in the process of emergence and development. Idiom, which is active, live and expressive, possesses pronounced national color and reflects different nations’ colloquial features from various aspects. Discussing the cultural connotations of the idioms and revealing the hidden social and cultural contents of the idioms could help language learning and cultural communications, especially assist Chinese learning in understanding and using the idioms accurately and properly in language communications.