透过"眼"的惯用表现看中日两国人民的自他意识

中日两国在语言和文化方面存在很多异同点。透过中日两国文化的一些表面现象来研究、揭示其潜在的深层含义,对促进两国人民的相互理解具有十分重要的作用。语言是文化的栽体,惯用表现是漫长历史留下来的语言表达形式,它包含着不同民族的文化特征。中日两国语言的惯用表现中有关“眼”的用法非常多。表面上看,这些用法只是“眼”的惯用表现,但实质上在其背后却潜藏着中日两国人民在“自他意识”上的文化差异。

A Study of Self-other Consciousness of Chinese and Japanese Through the Eye-related Idioms in the Two Languages

Both China and Japan belong to the Chinese cultural sphere (also known as the Sinosphere).The two countries display similarities and differences in terms of their languages and cultures.A study aiming at revealing the deep meanings under the Sino-Japanese cultural surface should be of great benefit to the promotion of mutual understanding between the two countries.Language is the carrier of the culture,and idiomatic expressions of a language as a linguistic form that results from a long historical development should be capable of reflecting cultural features of the nation that uses the language.In both Chinese and Japanese languages there are a host of eye- related idioms,under the superficial semantic layer of which,as the present thesis contends,lies a cultural dif- ference in the self-other consciousness between the two nations.