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Syntactic Features off, Computer English

Zhang Min

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In recent years there has been an apparent upsurge of interest in English in China. A whole new mass of people want to learnEnglish, not for the pleasure or prestige of mastering the language, but for the key role the language of English is playing in the world of tech-nology and commerce. As English became the accepted international language of technology and commerce, it created a new generation oflearners who knew specifically why they were learning a language. As a result, more and more people attach great importance to scien-tech-nical English. It is therefore how computer English, a branch of English for Science and Technology (EST), comes into being .This paper fo-cuses on the syntactic features of computer English.

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In recent years there has been an apparent upsurge of interest in English in China. A whole new mass of people want to learnEnglish, not for the pleasure or prestige of mastering the language, but for the key role the language of English is playing in the world of tech-nology and commerce. As English became the accepted international language of technology and commerce, it created a new generation oflearners who knew specifically why they were learning a language. As a result, more and more people attach great importance to scien-tech-nical English. It is therefore how computer English, a branch of English for Science and Technology (EST), comes into being .This paper fo-cuses on the syntactic features of computer English.

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In recent years there has been an apparent upsurge of interest in English in China. A whole new mass of people want to learnEnglish, not for the pleasure or prestige of mastering the language, but for the key role the language of English is playing in the world of tech-nology and commerce. As English became the accepted international language of technology and commerce, it created a new generation oflearners who knew specifically why they were learning a language. As a result, more and more people attach great importance to scien-tech-nical English. It is therefore how computer English, a branch of English for Science and Technology (EST), comes into being .This paper fo-cuses on the syntactic features of computer English.

Key concepts: Prestige, English language, Linguistics, Computer science, Philosophy

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