比较中西方文化我们不难发现,中西文化差异众多。人们由于文化不一样对同一事物的概念理解有所差异,这就造就人们在跨文化交际中难免会有一些理解障碍。为促进中西文化理解与交流,本文将对中西动物词汇伴随意义的区别进行整理,并从符号学角度—皮尔斯“符号的增长”思想来研究中西动物词汇文化差异。一、中西动物词汇差异在对比中西动物词汇中,我们不难发现,中 Comparing Chinese and Western cultures, we can easily find that there are many differences between Chinese and Western cultures. Because people differ in their understanding of the concept of the same thing because of different cultures, it is inevitable that people will have some obstacles in understanding intercultural communication. In order to promote the understanding and exchange of Chinese and Western culture, this article will sort out the differences between the concomitant meanings of Chinese and Western animal words, and study the cultural differences between Chinese and western animals from the perspective of semiotics - Pierce ’s “symbolic growth”. First, the differences between Chinese and Western animal lexicon in the comparison of animal words in the West, we can easily find, in