英汉夸张修辞表达的特殊性

The Respective Peculiarities of English and Chinese Hyperboles

通过英汉夸张修辞的对比,探讨了英汉民族在夸张修辞中具有思维的共同性,即把事特向高、大、好、强、重等方面扩展,或尽量向低、小、坏、弱、轻等方面收敛缩小;然后进一步探讨了英汉夸张修辞中表达的特殊性,即在文化差异上,神与形合上英汉民族夸张时有哪些特殊之处。而汉语的比较夸张和超前夸张,更有引人入胜之感。

By comparison and analysis, this article finds that native speakers of Chinese and English have a shared thinking mode in their hyperbole expressions. That is, both have the tendency of overstating the high, the big, the good, the strong, the heavy while understating the low, the small, the bad, the weak and light. The paper then analyzes the respective peculiarities of English and Chinese hyperboles, i.e., the peculiarities of English and Chinese hyperboles in such aspects as cultural differences as well as 'hypotaxis' and 'parataxis'. The authors also suggest that Chinese comparative hyperbole and hyperbole in advance are of particular charm.