民族文化视角下汉英语言修辞艺术差异赏析

Appreciation of Differences between Chinese and English in Rhetorical Techniques in the Light of National Culture

语言是较为稳定的民族特征之一,每一种语言都折射出各自民族深层的思维方式和审美情趣,反映出它赖以生存的文化母体的民族性。语言的民族性体现在语言系统的各个层面,语言表达风格之修辞艺术就是其中的一个重要层面,而历经时空考验的名人名言和名篇精品是语言修辞艺术的精华,充分展示出汉英民族文化差异在各自语言上烙下的层层印迹。

Language, as a relatively stable national character, reflects the way of thinking and aesthetic tastes of a nation, showing its national characteristics of cultural matrix on which it relies. The linguistic nationality is embodied in every aspect of its language system, important one of which is the rhetorical techniques in linguistic expression style. As an essence of rhetorical techniques, well-known sayings from celebrities and famous articles which have gone through all kinds of tests abundantly highlight the footprints impressed respectively on their languages by differences between Chinese and English national cultures.