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Difference in Spite of the Similarity: Speech Rules' Comparison of Rhetoric Aesthetics Between English and Chinese

Tang Jian-h

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Rhetoric is not only the behavior of language communication,but also the behavior of pursuing the validity of language communication.In fact,studying the rhetoric comparison between English and Chinese from the angle of translation aesthetics can disclose the rules,which definitely embody the validity of different languages ' communication,in the course of language conversion.This article points out that the character between these two languages ' speech rules of rhetoric aesthetics is difference in spit of the similarity,which is stated in detail by logical beauty,fuzzy beauty and harmonious beauty.It also demonstrates that the rhetoric of English and Chinese is different but understandable one another and that is the reason why the possibility of communication in translation can be achieved.

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Rhetoric is not only the behavior of language communication,but also the behavior of pursuing the validity of language communication.In fact,studying the rhetoric comparison between English and Chinese from the angle of translation aesthetics can disclose the rules,which definitely embody the validity of different languages ' communication,in the course of language conversion.This article points out that the character between these two languages ' speech rules of rhetoric aesthetics is difference in spit of the similarity,which is stated in detail by logical beauty,fuzzy beauty and harmonious beauty.It also demonstrates that the rhetoric of English and Chinese is different but understandable one another and that is the reason why the possibility of communication in translation can be achieved.

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Rhetoric is not only the behavior of language communication,but also the behavior of pursuing the validity of language communication.In fact,studying the rhetoric comparison between English and Chinese from the angle of translation aesthetics can disclose the rules,which definitely embody the validity of different languages ' communication,in the course of language conversion.This article points out that the character between these two languages ' speech rules of rhetoric aesthetics is difference in spit of the similarity,which is stated in detail by logical beauty,fuzzy beauty and harmonious beauty.It also demonstrates that the rhetoric of English and Chinese is different but understandable one another and that is the reason why the possibility of communication in translation can be achieved.

Key concepts: Rhetoric, Beauty, Similarity (geometry), Linguistics, Aesthetics, Character (mathematics), Psychology, Sociology

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