民族文化视角下汉英语言修辞艺术差异赏析

A Contrastive Appreciation of Chinese and English Rhetorical Styles from the Perspective 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 is comparatively one of the stable characteristics of a nation and to some extent like a recorder or a mirror which can record or reflect a nation’s unique features in geography,history and thinking modes,etc.There is no exception for the Chinese and English languages.From this perspective,this paper,based on 28 selected sentence samples,makes a contrastive appreciation of Chinese and English rhetorical styles with the purpose of revealing the relationship between national culture and their languages.