ABSTRACT

The Effect of Context on the Meaning of Words

                               

                                      

As an important notion in linguistic, context has a close relationship with the meaning of words. It is helpful not only in understanding the meaning of words , but also in learning a language with less effort and better results, and especially effective for translating and acquiring new words.

This essay illustrates the important function of context on words meaning, as well as the influence of context on English teaching and translation.

The study shows that only by taking context into consideration can the meaning of words be understood by readers accurately and be used properly in translation and language output. In the process of word learning, new words, context can enable language learners to spend less time and effort on understanding the meaning of words accurately than memorizing mechanically the words in a vocabulary list. In translation, context is essential to producing high-quality works in that it can help translators choose appropriate words which are closer to the original meaning.

Key words: context; meaning of words; translation; English learnin 

摘 要

　語境對詞義的影響

作為語言學中的一個重要概念，語境與詞匯含義的關系很密切，它不僅可以幫助我們更準確的理解單詞意義，對語言學習也很有幫助，它能讓學習者付出更少的努力卻獲得更好的學習效果，特別是在翻譯和學習新單詞方面的作用很大。

這篇論文首先回顧了語境觀的發(fā)展歷程，介紹了關于語境和詞義的一些概念和知識，然后探索了語境對詞義的一些影響。本文主要致力于探索語境對詞匯意義和英語教學與翻譯方面的作用。

本文解釋了只有將語境納入考慮我們才能準確的理解詞匯含義，從而在翻譯和語言輸出中恰當?shù)氖褂脝卧~。在學習新單詞方面，語境可以幫助語言學習者花費更少的時間和精力，獲得比傳統(tǒng)死記硬背英漢單詞本更準確的釋義和更好的記憶效果。在翻譯方面，語境是產出高質量譯文的一個重要因素，它使譯文與原文的文風更接近，選詞與原文想表達的含義也更相近。

關鍵詞：語境；詞義；翻譯；英語學習