Human beings and animals have been being bound together inextricably, so it is not surprising that there is many a wordand expression about animals in languages, including Chinese and English. Idiom, as one of the imp...Human beings and animals have been being bound together inextricably, so it is not surprising that there is many a wordand expression about animals in languages, including Chinese and English. Idiom, as one of the important and refined componentparts of language, is also of such kind. This paper attempts to make a contrastive study of similarities and differences between Chi-nese and English animal-metaphor idioms. It also investigates into the causes for similarities and differences between Chinese andEnglish animal-metaphor idioms from a sociolinguistic perspective.展开更多
Language-switching is an important part of the study of code-switching. In this paper the author distinguishes code-switching from code-mixing first. Then the relationship between language-switching and borrowing is e...Language-switching is an important part of the study of code-switching. In this paper the author distinguishes code-switching from code-mixing first. Then the relationship between language-switching and borrowing is explained. At last, starting from the perspec tive of sociolinguistics, the author illustrates the special functions of language switching and the special effects and purpose that lan guage-switching can achieve.展开更多
文摘Human beings and animals have been being bound together inextricably, so it is not surprising that there is many a wordand expression about animals in languages, including Chinese and English. Idiom, as one of the important and refined componentparts of language, is also of such kind. This paper attempts to make a contrastive study of similarities and differences between Chi-nese and English animal-metaphor idioms. It also investigates into the causes for similarities and differences between Chinese andEnglish animal-metaphor idioms from a sociolinguistic perspective.
文摘Language-switching is an important part of the study of code-switching. In this paper the author distinguishes code-switching from code-mixing first. Then the relationship between language-switching and borrowing is explained. At last, starting from the perspec tive of sociolinguistics, the author illustrates the special functions of language switching and the special effects and purpose that lan guage-switching can achieve.
