英汉文字体系与中西方思维方式对比研究

A Contrastive Study of Ideography and Alphabetic Writing, and Chinese and Western Modes of Thinking

文字与思维方式有着直接的联系,不同的文字体系反映了不同的思维方式。汉字属于会意文字,具有象形的特点,象形文字体现了中国人重视形象思维的特点;英语属于拼音文字,在思维方式上表现为西方人善于抽象思维或逻辑思维。汉字和拼音文字各得其所,各尽其用;两种思维方法也应该相互渗透,取长补短。

Writing systems are closely related to modes of thinking, and different writing systems reflect different modes of thinking. Chinese characters belong to ideography and are characterized by pictography, which reveals that Chinese people are good at thinking in images while English is alphabetic writing, which shows that Westerners is versed in abstract thought or logical thinking. Chinese characters and alphabetic writing have their own merits and each has a role to play. It is necessary for the two modes of thinking infiltrate into each other and draw on the strong points of others to make up for one's own weak points.