Implicature is a universal feature of human communication.In conversations,it is common to see examples of something unsaid but communicated.After introducing the theory of conversational impilcature and its four maxi...Implicature is a universal feature of human communication.In conversations,it is common to see examples of something unsaid but communicated.After introducing the theory of conversational impilcature and its four maxims,this paper presents English and Chinese examples to compare their conversational implicature,and finds conversational implicature exists in both Chinese and English conversation.展开更多
English and Chinese have their respective word formations,as they are from different language families.A comparison between the two different languages show the similarities in the forms and meanings of their affixes ...English and Chinese have their respective word formations,as they are from different language families.A comparison between the two different languages show the similarities in the forms and meanings of their affixes while their differences are obvious.展开更多
This paper analyses the relationship between language and culture exemplified in English and Chinese.Language is not only a part of culture but also the carrier and container of culture.As a mirror of culture language...This paper analyses the relationship between language and culture exemplified in English and Chinese.Language is not only a part of culture but also the carrier and container of culture.As a mirror of culture language is strongly influenced by culture.Language also exerts its influence on culture.Language and culture is closely related.展开更多
Since the opening-up policy was carried out in 1979, every facility of social modernized construction has developed at high speed; meanwhile, the need of English is increased year by year. The occasion and scope of us...Since the opening-up policy was carried out in 1979, every facility of social modernized construction has developed at high speed; meanwhile, the need of English is increased year by year. The occasion and scope of using it are expanded with the communications among countries. Therefore, English has become the generally international language in our country; in particular, translation plays an important and irreplaceable part in English to convey information. This paper aims to introduce the contrasts of English sentences and Chinese sentences and discuss some skills of translating each other. Though it is not complete and authoritative, yet it may help some people to understand the differences between two languages and to grasp some practical skills.展开更多
Through the comparative analysis of the phatic communion in English and Chinese,we found that they have similar functions in their language,but the basic form and content have a big difference.This article introduces ...Through the comparative analysis of the phatic communion in English and Chinese,we found that they have similar functions in their language,but the basic form and content have a big difference.This article introduces definition of phatic communion,explains that the pragmatic difference is the reflection of cultural differences between China and Western countries.展开更多
Markedness refers to the asymmetric phenomenon in a linguistic category. Unmarked item, compared with marked item,is more natural, more neutral, more fundamental, and has higher using frequency and wider distribution....Markedness refers to the asymmetric phenomenon in a linguistic category. Unmarked item, compared with marked item,is more natural, more neutral, more fundamental, and has higher using frequency and wider distribution. From the perspective of markedness theory, the study, collecting 86 English passives and 85 Chinese passives(including 35 notional passives and 50 Beisentences), contrastively analyzes the unmarkedness of English and Chinese passives from the aspects of patient animacy, emotional color, and tense through example-illustration and description. The analysis shows that the unmarkedness of English and Chinese passives has different expressions in the three aspects. Inanimate patient has stronger unmarkedness in both English and Chinese passives, for it is more frequently-used than animate patient. According to people's cognition and language using habits, the emotional color of English passives and Chinese notional passives is neutral in most cases, so the neutral emotional color is unmarked.But in Chinese Bei-sentences, negative emotional color has stronger unmarkedness. As for the tense expression, English passives have wider distributions in time span and simpler structure than Chinese passives. Thus, English passives possess stronger unmarkedness in the light of tense. According to the analysis, the study proposes feasible advice for second language acquisition and translation.展开更多
This paper is to explore the syntactic features and thought patterns among English,Chinese and the Shui language,discussing this topic from macroscopic,giving a brief contrast and comparison on macroscopic of English,...This paper is to explore the syntactic features and thought patterns among English,Chinese and the Shui language,discussing this topic from macroscopic,giving a brief contrast and comparison on macroscopic of English,Chinese and the Shui language.展开更多
This thesis makes a contrastive study of English and Chinese euphemism with an attempt to explore and demonstrate the differences and similarities between the two linguistic phenomena in the hope of enlightening and g...This thesis makes a contrastive study of English and Chinese euphemism with an attempt to explore and demonstrate the differences and similarities between the two linguistic phenomena in the hope of enlightening and guiding English learners a bit in their language learning,translation studies,cross-cultural communication。展开更多
I Introduction The fact that we are human beings who live together in society determines that much that we want to accomplish can be done only through social communication with other people. It is under
The thesis is a comparative study of empty pronouns between English and Chinese under the frame work of GB theory.Following the introductory part,the existence of PRO and pro has been researched in both English and Ch...The thesis is a comparative study of empty pronouns between English and Chinese under the frame work of GB theory.Following the introductory part,the existence of PRO and pro has been researched in both English and Chinese.Then,the two kinds of empty pronouns are respectively compared between the two languages.A comparison has been made between English and Chinese in terms of their generation,distribution,classification,reference and interpretation to explore both the similarities and differences.Disputable issues have been covered and we tried to find out a solution.As a whole,English shares the same classification with Chinese except for pro.They do not have substantial differences in property,but PRO used in the two languages have distinction in concrete sentence structures.Since English possesses no pro,we have focused on its presence in Chinese.This total difference can clearly show us the difference between the two languages.This thesis aims at exploring the distinctive features and properties of English and Chinese by comparison so as to bring enlightenment to the translation in this aspect and gain a better understanding of the two languages in the structure.展开更多
This paper compares the Chinese and Japanese abbreviations from the perspective of morphology and analyzes the causes of the popularity of abbreviations in modern society.The study shows that there are similar types o...This paper compares the Chinese and Japanese abbreviations from the perspective of morphology and analyzes the causes of the popularity of abbreviations in modern society.The study shows that there are similar types of abbreviation formation(direct omission of the original word,extraction and combination,and number abbreviation)in the two languages,while in addition to the English alphabet abbreviations,there are“Pinyin”acronyms in Chinese and Roman alphabet abbreviations in Japanese.This study may be helpful in assisting the learners of two languages to further understand the culture of two countries,so as to better promote cultural exchanges.展开更多
A commonly cultural phenomenon in the human history is taboo, which is a strong social prohibition related to any area of human society. Different social and cultural backgrounds will produce different taboos. Lacking...A commonly cultural phenomenon in the human history is taboo, which is a strong social prohibition related to any area of human society. Different social and cultural backgrounds will produce different taboos. Lacking the knowledge of social customs may cause conflicts in crosscultural communication. So it is necessary to know more about taboos. This paper analyzes the the cultural similarities and difference between Chinese and English taboos in a contrastive way in cross-cultural communication and stresses the importance of?understanding and mastering taboos, so that they can reduce the inter-communicative barriers and mistakes and improve their communicative ability.展开更多
Love is a so abstract concept that it always be conveyed through metaphors.In order to reveal how the Chinese and English poetry sets metaphors for love,this article probes into large number of examples of love metaph...Love is a so abstract concept that it always be conveyed through metaphors.In order to reveal how the Chinese and English poetry sets metaphors for love,this article probes into large number of examples of love metaphor and concludes that love metaphors in English and Chinese poetry shares the same conceptual system due to the common natures of human being.On the other hand,the differences in thinking mode and religious value result in their different points.Love metaphors in Chinese poetry are more subtle,reserved,and restrained,which corresponds to the national characteristics of Chinese people;while those in English poetry are more bold,passionate,and romantic,which are also associated with the features of western culture.展开更多
The paper is divided into Five Chapters,aiming to explain the humorous effect in our daily discourse in the perspective of linguistic analysis.It is another new discovery.Two languages have their own distinct features...The paper is divided into Five Chapters,aiming to explain the humorous effect in our daily discourse in the perspective of linguistic analysis.It is another new discovery.Two languages have their own distinct features.When translating,we will find a lot of humorous effect created by these language differences.The analysis of the topic is undergoing through term definition and case study.The paper might be of some help to further the humorous research in literature,art,academic circles or daily conversations.More methods of analysis,at the same time,are appreciated.展开更多
Kinship terms system is one of the most common features in the world,but different countries have different kinship expressions.This paper mainly states the differences between English and Chinese kinship terms and Cu...Kinship terms system is one of the most common features in the world,but different countries have different kinship expressions.This paper mainly states the differences between English and Chinese kinship terms and Cultural differences between English and Chinese kinship terms.The cultural differences between English and Chinese kinship terms exist in several aspects.The causes of differences between English and Chinese kinship terms are various,and the major aspects we will consider are history,like different patriarchal clan system;worldview,like different ideas of birth and numbers of birth;different social organization and system changes of social system.展开更多
Nasals and assimilation are basic terminologies in phonology,nasal assimilation is a kind of common phonological phenomenon in addition.As is known to all,in English,assimilation mainly happens between consonants and ...Nasals and assimilation are basic terminologies in phonology,nasal assimilation is a kind of common phonological phenomenon in addition.As is known to all,in English,assimilation mainly happens between consonants and consonants,which is one of the important constitutes of English mutation,for the sake of labor-saving convenience and better fluency.From an applied linguistic view,nasal assimilation in negative prefixes(e.g.un-,ab-,ir-,im-&non-,etc.)is seemingly another interesting phenomenon for an innovative exploration.This paper focuses on some specific enumeration and comparison between Chinese dialect(specifically,Sichuan dialect)as well as English.This brief exploration and analysis might contribute to relative study in years to come.展开更多
Color words are widely used in both English and Chinese languages environment.Due to cultural reasons,the significance of the same color word in Chinese and English is extremely different.This paper makes a comparison...Color words are widely used in both English and Chinese languages environment.Due to cultural reasons,the significance of the same color word in Chinese and English is extremely different.This paper makes a comparison of some representative color words,to get a better understanding and application of color words in cross-cultural communication.展开更多
Chinese English expresses typical items with Chinese characteristics, however, Chinglish is a misshapen language. The difference existing between them is a very important consideration when using English. Through the ...Chinese English expresses typical items with Chinese characteristics, however, Chinglish is a misshapen language. The difference existing between them is a very important consideration when using English. Through the comparison between Chinese English and Chinglish, The purpose of this paper is to make people use English better.展开更多
本研究根据Michael Hoey提出的词汇触发理论,分别考察了英文短语"more and more"在香港理工大学汉英当代文本平行语料库(PCCE)、英国国家语料库(BNC)和中国英语学习者语料库(CLEC)中的频率、类连接形式与搭配形式。研究发现,...本研究根据Michael Hoey提出的词汇触发理论,分别考察了英文短语"more and more"在香港理工大学汉英当代文本平行语料库(PCCE)、英国国家语料库(BNC)和中国英语学习者语料库(CLEC)中的频率、类连接形式与搭配形式。研究发现,母语环境和非母语环境、双语转换环境和语言直接使用环境下的"more and more"触发模式均有各自的特征,源语文本和母语迁移对触发亦有明显的影响作用。本文认为,词汇触发理论能让我们从心理学的角度,重新审视翻译中原文与译文的"对等"关系问题,揭示出某些中、英文词汇即便是语义上完全对等,但由于文化差异等原因,经它们触发的在原文和译文句子中的位置、搭配、语用联想等方面却未必完全一样。这正是原文与译文在行文及风格上不一致的深层原因。因此,词汇触发理论不仅对英汉翻译具有实际指导意义,还提供了英汉对比研究的理论新视角,值得我们重视。展开更多
文摘Implicature is a universal feature of human communication.In conversations,it is common to see examples of something unsaid but communicated.After introducing the theory of conversational impilcature and its four maxims,this paper presents English and Chinese examples to compare their conversational implicature,and finds conversational implicature exists in both Chinese and English conversation.
文摘English and Chinese have their respective word formations,as they are from different language families.A comparison between the two different languages show the similarities in the forms and meanings of their affixes while their differences are obvious.
文摘This paper analyses the relationship between language and culture exemplified in English and Chinese.Language is not only a part of culture but also the carrier and container of culture.As a mirror of culture language is strongly influenced by culture.Language also exerts its influence on culture.Language and culture is closely related.
文摘Since the opening-up policy was carried out in 1979, every facility of social modernized construction has developed at high speed; meanwhile, the need of English is increased year by year. The occasion and scope of using it are expanded with the communications among countries. Therefore, English has become the generally international language in our country; in particular, translation plays an important and irreplaceable part in English to convey information. This paper aims to introduce the contrasts of English sentences and Chinese sentences and discuss some skills of translating each other. Though it is not complete and authoritative, yet it may help some people to understand the differences between two languages and to grasp some practical skills.
文摘Through the comparative analysis of the phatic communion in English and Chinese,we found that they have similar functions in their language,but the basic form and content have a big difference.This article introduces definition of phatic communion,explains that the pragmatic difference is the reflection of cultural differences between China and Western countries.
文摘Markedness refers to the asymmetric phenomenon in a linguistic category. Unmarked item, compared with marked item,is more natural, more neutral, more fundamental, and has higher using frequency and wider distribution. From the perspective of markedness theory, the study, collecting 86 English passives and 85 Chinese passives(including 35 notional passives and 50 Beisentences), contrastively analyzes the unmarkedness of English and Chinese passives from the aspects of patient animacy, emotional color, and tense through example-illustration and description. The analysis shows that the unmarkedness of English and Chinese passives has different expressions in the three aspects. Inanimate patient has stronger unmarkedness in both English and Chinese passives, for it is more frequently-used than animate patient. According to people's cognition and language using habits, the emotional color of English passives and Chinese notional passives is neutral in most cases, so the neutral emotional color is unmarked.But in Chinese Bei-sentences, negative emotional color has stronger unmarkedness. As for the tense expression, English passives have wider distributions in time span and simpler structure than Chinese passives. Thus, English passives possess stronger unmarkedness in the light of tense. According to the analysis, the study proposes feasible advice for second language acquisition and translation.
文摘This paper is to explore the syntactic features and thought patterns among English,Chinese and the Shui language,discussing this topic from macroscopic,giving a brief contrast and comparison on macroscopic of English,Chinese and the Shui language.
文摘This thesis makes a contrastive study of English and Chinese euphemism with an attempt to explore and demonstrate the differences and similarities between the two linguistic phenomena in the hope of enlightening and guiding English learners a bit in their language learning,translation studies,cross-cultural communication。
文摘I Introduction The fact that we are human beings who live together in society determines that much that we want to accomplish can be done only through social communication with other people. It is under
文摘The thesis is a comparative study of empty pronouns between English and Chinese under the frame work of GB theory.Following the introductory part,the existence of PRO and pro has been researched in both English and Chinese.Then,the two kinds of empty pronouns are respectively compared between the two languages.A comparison has been made between English and Chinese in terms of their generation,distribution,classification,reference and interpretation to explore both the similarities and differences.Disputable issues have been covered and we tried to find out a solution.As a whole,English shares the same classification with Chinese except for pro.They do not have substantial differences in property,but PRO used in the two languages have distinction in concrete sentence structures.Since English possesses no pro,we have focused on its presence in Chinese.This total difference can clearly show us the difference between the two languages.This thesis aims at exploring the distinctive features and properties of English and Chinese by comparison so as to bring enlightenment to the translation in this aspect and gain a better understanding of the two languages in the structure.
基金This paper is supported by Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology(Project No.:XJ2022236).
文摘This paper compares the Chinese and Japanese abbreviations from the perspective of morphology and analyzes the causes of the popularity of abbreviations in modern society.The study shows that there are similar types of abbreviation formation(direct omission of the original word,extraction and combination,and number abbreviation)in the two languages,while in addition to the English alphabet abbreviations,there are“Pinyin”acronyms in Chinese and Roman alphabet abbreviations in Japanese.This study may be helpful in assisting the learners of two languages to further understand the culture of two countries,so as to better promote cultural exchanges.
文摘A commonly cultural phenomenon in the human history is taboo, which is a strong social prohibition related to any area of human society. Different social and cultural backgrounds will produce different taboos. Lacking the knowledge of social customs may cause conflicts in crosscultural communication. So it is necessary to know more about taboos. This paper analyzes the the cultural similarities and difference between Chinese and English taboos in a contrastive way in cross-cultural communication and stresses the importance of?understanding and mastering taboos, so that they can reduce the inter-communicative barriers and mistakes and improve their communicative ability.
文摘Love is a so abstract concept that it always be conveyed through metaphors.In order to reveal how the Chinese and English poetry sets metaphors for love,this article probes into large number of examples of love metaphor and concludes that love metaphors in English and Chinese poetry shares the same conceptual system due to the common natures of human being.On the other hand,the differences in thinking mode and religious value result in their different points.Love metaphors in Chinese poetry are more subtle,reserved,and restrained,which corresponds to the national characteristics of Chinese people;while those in English poetry are more bold,passionate,and romantic,which are also associated with the features of western culture.
文摘The paper is divided into Five Chapters,aiming to explain the humorous effect in our daily discourse in the perspective of linguistic analysis.It is another new discovery.Two languages have their own distinct features.When translating,we will find a lot of humorous effect created by these language differences.The analysis of the topic is undergoing through term definition and case study.The paper might be of some help to further the humorous research in literature,art,academic circles or daily conversations.More methods of analysis,at the same time,are appreciated.
文摘Kinship terms system is one of the most common features in the world,but different countries have different kinship expressions.This paper mainly states the differences between English and Chinese kinship terms and Cultural differences between English and Chinese kinship terms.The cultural differences between English and Chinese kinship terms exist in several aspects.The causes of differences between English and Chinese kinship terms are various,and the major aspects we will consider are history,like different patriarchal clan system;worldview,like different ideas of birth and numbers of birth;different social organization and system changes of social system.
文摘Nasals and assimilation are basic terminologies in phonology,nasal assimilation is a kind of common phonological phenomenon in addition.As is known to all,in English,assimilation mainly happens between consonants and consonants,which is one of the important constitutes of English mutation,for the sake of labor-saving convenience and better fluency.From an applied linguistic view,nasal assimilation in negative prefixes(e.g.un-,ab-,ir-,im-&non-,etc.)is seemingly another interesting phenomenon for an innovative exploration.This paper focuses on some specific enumeration and comparison between Chinese dialect(specifically,Sichuan dialect)as well as English.This brief exploration and analysis might contribute to relative study in years to come.
文摘Color words are widely used in both English and Chinese languages environment.Due to cultural reasons,the significance of the same color word in Chinese and English is extremely different.This paper makes a comparison of some representative color words,to get a better understanding and application of color words in cross-cultural communication.
文摘Chinese English expresses typical items with Chinese characteristics, however, Chinglish is a misshapen language. The difference existing between them is a very important consideration when using English. Through the comparison between Chinese English and Chinglish, The purpose of this paper is to make people use English better.
基金ESRC/RGC Joint Research Scheme项目"Comparable and Parallel Corpus Approaches to the Third Code:English and Chinese Perspectives"(项目编号:RGC/Gov No.:ES/K010107/13-ZG2G)支持
文摘本研究根据Michael Hoey提出的词汇触发理论,分别考察了英文短语"more and more"在香港理工大学汉英当代文本平行语料库(PCCE)、英国国家语料库(BNC)和中国英语学习者语料库(CLEC)中的频率、类连接形式与搭配形式。研究发现,母语环境和非母语环境、双语转换环境和语言直接使用环境下的"more and more"触发模式均有各自的特征,源语文本和母语迁移对触发亦有明显的影响作用。本文认为,词汇触发理论能让我们从心理学的角度,重新审视翻译中原文与译文的"对等"关系问题,揭示出某些中、英文词汇即便是语义上完全对等,但由于文化差异等原因,经它们触发的在原文和译文句子中的位置、搭配、语用联想等方面却未必完全一样。这正是原文与译文在行文及风格上不一致的深层原因。因此,词汇触发理论不仅对英汉翻译具有实际指导意义,还提供了英汉对比研究的理论新视角,值得我们重视。