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A Contrastive Study of English-Chinese Modes of Thought Based on E-C Translation
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【英语词汇学论文】[Abstract] Due to different cultures, English and Chinese people have formed their own modes of thought, which influence their living ways greatly, especially their own languages. Mode of thought is a very complicated abstract conception connected closely to philosophy. In this paper I will mainly concern on English individualism and Chinese entirety, because their difference is the most distinct one existing in modes of thought. English people prefer individualism, which leads them to subordinate the recognized objects into small parts. While Chinese people like entirety, they prefer to take the world as a whole. Thinking patterns have been clearly reflected on languages, as a result of which English is hypotactic and Chinese is paratactic. This paper centers on the differences of hypotactic and paratactic characteristics in languages and their forming reasons—modes of
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