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A Chinese-English Contrastive Analysis of Language Form and Its Meaning

Zhou Gao

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As effected by different cultures and modes of thinking,Chinese and English shows differently its own characteristics in language forms of expression and its meaning.That's what is called heterology between Chinese and English.As a parataxis language,ways of expression forms in Chinese are quite much more simplified than that of English.Unlikely,English is a language which emphasizes much more on its forms of expression.As for this point,we have a contrastive analysis between these two languages as following.

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As effected by different cultures and modes of thinking,Chinese and English shows differently its own characteristics in language forms of expression and its meaning.That's what is called heterology between Chinese and English.As a parataxis language,ways of expression forms in Chinese are quite much more simplified than that of English.Unlikely,English is a language which emphasizes much more on its forms of expression.As for this point,we have a contrastive analysis between these two languages as following.

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As effected by different cultures and modes of thinking,Chinese and English shows differently its own characteristics in language forms of expression and its meaning.That's what is called heterology between Chinese and English.As a parataxis language,ways of expression forms in Chinese are quite much more simplified than that of English.Unlikely,English is a language which emphasizes much more on its forms of expression.As for this point,we have a contrastive analysis between these two languages as following.

Key concepts: Linguistics, Meaning (existential), Contrastive analysis, Expression (computer science), Point (geometry), English language, Chinese language, Computer science

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