Cultural Motivation for Topic-Comment Sentence Structure in the Chinese Language

摘要：

In this thesis, the correlation between cultural phenomenon and syntactic structures is studied and justified. Firstly, grammatical differences are obtained from close examination of more than three thousand sentences. It is proved that the structure of topic-comment is more prevalent and deep-rooted in the Chinese language, while the structure of subject-predicate is basic in the English language.Based on this grammatical phenomenon, three pieces of syntactical distinctions concerning subject and predicate are contrasted between the two languages and integrated with the aspect of culture-philosophical thinking-in order to make grammar more deeply and exactly understood. The thesis studies the reflection of Confucianism and Taoism on Chinese syntactical features and the exhibition of great Western philosophers theories on English syntactical structures.

关键词： subject-prominence topic-prominence cultural differences philosophical thinking

作者: Li Lin Sun Xiaolan Wang Guoxin

作者单位: Qingdao Technological University

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The Third Asia-TEFL International Conference(亚洲英语教师协会第三届国际会议)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 281-284

在线出版日期: 2005-11-04（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）