s likely to be covered by cultural connotations. That is to say the conceptual meaning of individual numerals gives way to its associative meaning.Р1.2.2 The associative meaning of Chinese and English numeralsРIn this part, several examples will be presented to show the fact that a same individual numeral would have similar or different associative meanings when it is in the different cultural background. As Halliday has said that “the total range of meanings that is embodied in and realized through the language system is determined by the context of culture”(1971, p.59), so same numerical expression is also supposed to have different cultural implications. And the sample numerals we choose are all very typical examples which bear distinctive implications in different cultural backgrounds.
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