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[Abstract]Duetodifferentcultures,EnglishandChinesepeoplehaveformedtheirownmodesofthought,whichinfluencetheirlivingwaysgreatly,especiallytheirownlanguages.Modeofthoughtisaverycomplicatedabstractconceptionconnectedcloselytophilosophy.InthispaperIwillmainlyconcernonEnglishindividualismandChineseentirety,becausetheirdifferenceisthemostdistinctoneexistinginmodesofthought.Englishpeoplepreferindividualism,whichleadsthemtosubordinatetherecognizedobjectsintosmallparts.WhileChinesepeoplelikeentirety,theyprefertotaketheworldasawhole.Thinkingpatternshavebeenclearlyreflectedonlanguages,asaresultofwhichEnglishishypotacticandChineseisparatactic.Thispapercentersonthedifferencesofhypotacticandparatacticcharacteristicsinlanguagesandtheirformingreasons—modesofthought.Englishpeoplepreferstomakegooduseofthehypotacticmarkerstolinkthesentencecomponents,whileChineseusuallytrytounderstandtheworldbytheirownintuition.InthispaperthedifferencesareexplainedthroughEnglish-Chinesetranslationandthestatisticsarealsogiventoprovethem.

[KeyWords]comparison;modeofthought;languages;English;Chinese

[摘要]根源于不同的文化淵源,英漢兩族人民形成了他們各自的思維模式。這種思維模式的差異深深地影響了他們的各種生活方式,尤其體現(xiàn)在語言上。思維模式是一個(gè)非常復(fù)雜抽象的概念,與哲學(xué)密切相關(guān)。在這篇論文中我將主要闡釋英民族的個(gè)體性思維和漢民族的整體性思維,因?yàn)樗鼈冎g的差異是思維模式中最突出的一面。英民族偏愛個(gè)體性思維,這使他們在認(rèn)識世界時(shí)慣于將認(rèn)知對象劃分為小個(gè)體。然而,漢民族偏愛整體性思維,將世界看成一個(gè)整體。語言深刻地反映了思維模式的這種差異,因此就形成了英語的形合特征和漢語的意合特征。這篇論文側(cè)重闡述語言中的形合和意合特征以及它們各種的形成原因----思維模式。英語民族的人民慣于利用形合標(biāo)志連接句子成分,而漢民族卻常常應(yīng)用自身的直覺來體會(huì)世界。這篇論文將通過英譯漢的翻譯和統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)據(jù)來證實(shí)此觀點(diǎn)。

[關(guān)鍵詞]英漢思維；對比；語言；英語；漢語

1.Introduction

ThefamousWhorfhypothesisthinksthatlanguageshavedeterminingeffectsonmodesofthought,whichisformedrelativelytolanguagesanddifferentlanguageswillbringondifferentthinkingpatterns.[1]p35LiuMiqing(劉宓慶)holdstheopinionthatmodesofthoughthascontrolledoverlanguages[2]p35,andlanguagesaretheconcretemanifestationofmodesofthought.Inmyopinion,modesofthoughtdecidetheuseoflanguages,andthereasonshowlanguagesareinfluencedbymodesofthoughtshouldbeexaminedfromtheirrelationship.

Modesofthoughtandlanguagesinfluenceandreflecteachotherclosely.“Thinkingpatterns,thoughtcharacteristicsandthinkingstylesarethephilosophicalmechanismoflanguageproduction.Languageactuallyattachescloselytothethoughtthatistheprofoundmechanism.”[3]p166Thinkingpatternsarethedeep-rootedmechanismoftheforminganddevelopingoflanguages,andontheotherhandlanguageshelptopromotetheforminganddevelopingofmodesofthought.Languageisthecarrierofthinkingandabstractionofreality,andmodeofthoughtistheconsciousactivityinwhichpeople’smindsreflectandrealizetheobjectivereality.[4]p36Thedifferencesbetweenthinkingpatternsarethemainreasonsthatresultinthedifferencesoflanguageforms,soIthinkthestudyofthefeatures,thetransitionandtherelationshipoflanguagesshouldbestartedwiththestudyofmodesofthoughtwhichconnectcloselywiththeculturesandthelanguages.English-Chinesemodesofthoughthavetheirowncharacteristicsinthinkingcore,thinkingpattern,cognitionhabitsandthinkingprinciples.AsatoolforcommunicationthebasicattributeofEnglishandChinesearethesame,sotherearemanysimilaritiesduringthedescriptionandthinkingwiththetwolanguages.Butbecauseoftheinfluenceoftheirowncultures,therearemanydifferencesbetweenthetwolanguages,andbasedondifferentcomparisonfoundationtherearemanydifferentkindsofresults.

InthispaperEnglish-ChinesetranslationwillbegivenandanalyzedindetailsinordertounderstandthedifferencesofthemodesofthoughtbetweenEnglishandChinesethroughtheirlanguagemanifestations.StatisticswillbegiventoexplainthedifferencesofEnglishandChinese,whichisthefoundationformyanalyzingofthedifferencesoftheirownthinkingpatterns.Asweknow,therearemanydifferencesbetweenthetwolanguages,suchashypotaxisandparataxis,passiveandactive,staticanddynamic,impersonandperson.Butinthispassage,Iwillonlymainlydiscussfromonepointwhichishypotaxisandparataxis.AsNidastatesinhisbookthatstudyfromlinguistics,themostimportantdifferentcharacteristicbetweenChineseandEnglishisthedifferenceofparataxisandhypotaxis.[5]P13LiuMiqingholdstheopinionthathypotaxisandparataxisarethe“uniquecharacteristic”forEnglishandChinese.[6]P13Thecomparisonofthedifferencewillbedescribedthroughstatisticaldescriptionandthedeep-rootedreasonsofthinkingpatternswillalsobegiventoexplaintheformingofthelanguagedifference.

2.TheexampleoftheEnglishtoChinesetranslation

2.1Englishoriginal

Weknowthatcleanenergytechnologieshavegreatappealtothedevelopingworldbeyondthevalueweinthedevelopedworldattachtotheircapacitytolimitclimatechange.Africa,forexample,barelyaccountsfor1%ofglobalgreenhousegasemissions.It’snotsurprisingthenthatourpartnersonthiscontinentaremoreconcernedwiththedevelopmentpotentialofsustainableenergy.ThepricevolatilityofAfrica’shydrocarbonimportshasplayedhavocwitheachstate’seconomyoverrecentdecadesandstymiedprogress.REEEP(RenewableEnergyandEnergyEfficiencyPartnership)’ssupportforprovenrenewabletechnologies,suchassolarwaterheatingandco-generation---whichofcourserelyonlocalproductswhichdon’tneedtobeimported---willgreatlyincreasethereliabilityofAfrica’senergysupply,andtherebyhelpspurdevelopment.

Thecreatingofamoreevendistributionofenergysupplywill,inturn,fuelnewemploymentandcommercialopportunities,particularlyinruralareas.Renewablesourcesthenwillhelptoaddressthesocialinequalityacrosstheglobethatweseeinthecurrentlymarkedandunacceptabledifferencebetweenrichandpoornationsintermsofaccesstoanduseofenergysupplies.[7]P269

2.2TheChinesetranslation

清潔性能源技術(shù)因?yàn)槟軌蚓徑鈿夂蜃兓艿轿覀儼l(fā)達(dá)國家的青睞。同樣，這種技術(shù)對發(fā)展中國家也有巨大的吸引力，但其價(jià)值卻不止于此。例如，非洲的溫室效應(yīng)排放量勉強(qiáng)占世界總量的1%。因此，我們在本大陸的伙伴更加關(guān)注可持續(xù)性能源的發(fā)展?jié)撃芤簿筒蛔銥槠媪?。最近幾十年來非洲烴進(jìn)口價(jià)格的不穩(wěn)定性已經(jīng)給各國經(jīng)濟(jì)造成了巨大破壞并妨礙了發(fā)展。再生性能源與能源效率合作組織（PEEEP）對已證實(shí)的再生性能源技術(shù)的資助，如太陽能熱水器和熱電聯(lián)產(chǎn)技術(shù)—當(dāng)然，這只依賴本地產(chǎn)品，不必進(jìn)口—將大大增加非洲能源供應(yīng)的可靠性，從而促進(jìn)發(fā)展。

反過來，建立更均衡的能源供應(yīng)可以提供新的就業(yè)和商業(yè)機(jī)會(huì)，尤其是在農(nóng)村地區(qū)。在能源供應(yīng)的選擇與使用方面，我們看到富國與貧國之間存在著今人難以接受的顯著差距，再生性能源將有助于消除這種全球性的社會(huì)不公。[8]P274-275

3.Themainaspectofthedifferences---hypotaxisandparataxis

ResultedfromdifferentthinkingpatternstherearesomanydifferentcharacteristicsbetweenEnglishandChinese.Thecompletestudyofthelanguagecharacteristicssurelywillrequiremanyeffectsandtime,sobasedonmyownlimitedknowledge,Iwillonlytrytoexplainthecharacteristicsofhypotaxisandparataxisandtheirformingresults.

Inmyownopinionthecharacteristicsofhypotaxisandparataxisarethemostimportantdifferences,andtheanalysisofthemcanletusbetterunderstandthetwolanguagesandtheirownmodesofthought.

3.1Thedefinitionsofthetwoconcepts

Thedifferencesofhypotaxisandparataxisshouldbeexaminedbasedonthetheory,andnextIwillfirstgiveadescriptionoftheirconceptsandcombinethemtotheEnglish-Chinesetranslationanalyzingsomesentencesindetails.

3.1.1Thedefinitionofhypotaxis

Thesocalledhypotaxisreferstothecasethatthecomponentpartsofasentencearejoinedtogetherbyusingdefiniteconnectives,suchaspreposition,relativepronouns,conjunction,affixes,etc.[9]P35

3.1.2Thedefinitionofparataxis

Parataxismeansthatthecomponentpartsofthesentenceareplacedinadefiniteordertoindicatetheirrelationshipwithoutanyconnectivesinbetween.So,thesyntacticstructureappearstobesomewhatloose,butratherconciseandexpressive.[10]P36

3.2Example

(1)Englishoriginal:

Weknowthatcleanenergytechnologieshavegreatappealtothedevelopingworldbeyondthevalueweinthedevelopedworldattachtotheircapacitytolimitclimatechange.

Chineseversion:

清潔性能源技術(shù)因?yàn)槟軌蚓徑鈿夂蜃兓艿轿覀儼l(fā)達(dá)國家的青睞。同樣，這種技術(shù)對發(fā)展中國家也有巨大的吸引力，但其價(jià)值卻不止于此。

3.3Theanalysisbasedonthisexample

Inthisexamplethewordsintheitalicsarethemarkersofhypotaxis.FromthesentenceswecanseethatthereareninehypotacticmarkersintheEnglishversion,whileinitsChineseversiononlyfivemarkers.

Theconnective“that”isthemarkerofobjectiveclausetoshowthattheclauseafter“that”iswhat“Weknow”,butinitsChineseversionthephrase“Weknowthat”isnottranslatedliterally.InEnglishthephrase“Weknowthat”isthehypotacticmarkertoshowthatwhatstatedlateristhecommonknowledgeforus,andwhattheauthorwanttosayshouldbemarkedinthelanguageforms.WhileinChinesethephraseisnotneededtobetranslatedbecauseChineseisakindofparatacticlanguageanditplacestheemphasisonlogicalprocedure,functionandmeaning.InChinesesenseoverweighstructure,sothereaderscanunderstandthemeaningsbythemselves.

AlsotherearefourpropositionsintheEnglishoriginalversion,whichshowtherelationshipbetweenthephrasesbeforeandafterthesepropositions.WhileinChineseversionthereareonlyoneproposition,whichis“對”.

Whatismore,the“-ing”and“-ed”arealsothehypotacticmarkers,whichshowthedifferentdegreeofthestatesmakingtherelationshipbetweenthecomponentsveryclear,whileinChinesethereisnotanythiskindofaffixestoshowtheirrelationship.

3.4Thedescriptionofthetwoconceptsinmoredetails

JiaDejiang(賈德江)statesinhisbookofEnglish-Chinesecomparativestudyandtranslationthatthecohesivetiesincludingthreekinds,whichare:relativewordsandconjunctions,prepositionsandothermeanstoshowthechangingofthelanguageforms.[10]p78

AndnextIwillgiveasimpleclassificationtothehypotacticmarkersinordertobetteranalyzethetranslation.

3.4.1Therelativewordsandconjunctionwords

Therelativewordsincludingrelativepronoun,relativeadverb,connectivepronounandconnectiveadverbsuchas:who,whom,whose,that,which,what,when,where,why,howetc.Theyareusedtoconnectprincipalsubjectiveclauseandattributiveclause,subjectiveclause,objectiveclauseandpredicativeclause.

Theconjunctionwordsincludecoordinativeandsubordinateconjunctionsuchas:and,or,but,while,as,since,until,so…that…,unless,lestetc.whichareusedtoconnectwords,phrases,andclause.WhenwearewritingEnglishsentences,theseconjunctionwordsarecommonlyusedandcannotbeneglected.ButinChinesethesewordsareseldomused.[11]p102

(2)Exampletwo:

Englishoriginal:

It’snotsurprisingthenthatourpartnersonthiscontinentaremoreconcernedwiththedevelopmentpotentialofsustainableenergy.

Chineseversion:

因此，我們在本大陸的伙伴更加關(guān)注可持續(xù)性能源的發(fā)展?jié)撃芤簿筒蛔銥槠媪恕?/p>

TheEnglishversionbelongstothe“It+be”sentencestructure.AccordingtotheCardiffGrammarbyHuangGuowen(黃國文)andFawcett,thiskindofsentencestructureiscalled“enhancedthemeconstruction”.[12]p27

AccordingtowhatisstatedbyPengXuanwei(彭宣維),therearethreekindsofenhancedthemeconstruction.“…therearethreekindsofenhancedthemeconstruction,whichareexperiential,evaluativeandexistential”.“…thesocalledexperientialisthecleftsentences，whichiscalledpredicatedthemesbyHalliday”[13]p27

SoaccordingtothetheoryaboveIthinkthephrase“Itis”isnotthethematicbuild-up.

Besides“it”isalsoatypicalhypotacticmarkerinEnglish,whichstandsforsubjectiveclause.InEnglishsuchkindofsentencesiscommonlyusedfortheirspecialfunctions.Suchstructurecanavoidpresentingalltheimportantmassageatthebeginningofthepassage,andittakesthefunctiontomakethesentencebetterunderstood.

Theconjunctionword“then”after“notsurprising”isthesecondhypotacticmarkerinthesentence,whichmeans“so”inthesentence.Itisrightlytranslatedto“因此”toshowthecloserelationshipbetweenthissentenceandthefollowingones.InChinesetheword“因此”isusedtobethefirstwordinthesentence,whichclearlypredicateitsrelationshipwiththecontentabove.

Theword“that”isthethirdhypotacticmarkerthatfollows.“notsurprising”istheidentified,sotheword“that”clearlymarksthatthecontentafteritwillbetheobjectthattheidentifierrefersto.AsfortheChineseversionthoughitisakindofparatacticlanguage,therearealsomanyhypotacticmarkersinthefirstparagraph.Ithinkthereasonisthatthepassageselectedisscientificexpositioninsteadofessay.Weknowthatinscientificexpositionthelogicisrequiredstrictly,fortheauthorsshouldclearlystatetherelationshipbetweenthedetails.

BelowIwillselectashortsentencefromanessaytoshowtheparatacticcharacteristicsofChinese.

(3)Forexample:

Chineseoriginal:

不必說碧綠的菜畦，光滑的石井欄，高大的皂莢樹，紫紅的桑葚……

Englishversion:

Ineednotspeakofthegreenvegetableplots,theslipperystonecopingroundthewell,thetallhoneylocusttrees,orthepurplemulberries.[14]p154

FromthecomparisonbetweentheChinesesentenceanditstranslation,wecanalsoseethefeaturesofparataxisandhypotaxis.InChinese,therearenoconjunctions,andphasesareconnectedbymeanings.

ForitsEnglishtranslation,withtheuseofhypotaxis,subjectstructuresaredecidedtobethecenterofsentencepattern,so“I”,thesubject,isadded.SowemayseefromtheexamplethatforChineseparallelstructurestheirparatacticmeaningcanbetranslatedintohypotacticconnectionaccordingtotheEnglishhabits.

FromthecomparisonabovewemayseethatEnglishandChineseformdifferentsentencestructures.Whenmakingsentences,Chinesepeoplepreferthemethodoftaxis,whilewesternpeoplepreferconstructionmethod.InEnglishsentences,manyconjunctionwordsareusedtolinksentencecomponentsaroundthesubjectandpredicate,sowemayseethesentencesareexpendedfromthecorewords.FromthiswemayseethatChineseisaparatacticlanguagethatcontainsmanyimpliedmeaningsbetweenthelines.Onlyinsimplesentencescantheauthorexpressabundantmeaningswithartisticconceptions.

3.4.2Preposition

Theprepositionincludessimpleonessuchas:with,in,ofetc.andthecompoundonessuchas:inside,onto,upon,withinetc.andphrasalprepositionsuchas:accordingto,alongwithandapartfrometc.AccordingtothestatisticbyG..Curmethereareabout286prepositionsinEnglishtotally.PrepositionisthemostactivewordclassinEnglishlanguage,whichisthemainmeanstoconnectthewords,phrasesandclauses.[15]102

R.Banderhaspointedoutthat“…Overninetypercentofprepositionusageinvolvestheseninepreposition:with,to,from,at,in,.[16]102

Thenumberofprepositioninthistranslationisasfollowings:

thefirstparagraphthesecondparagraph

NO.inEnglish2012

NO.inChinese44

Sofromthetableabovewemayseethattherearetotally32prepositionsinEnglishtoshowtheslightrelationships,whicharemorethanthatinChinese.

ButintheChineseversionthereareonly8prepositions,mostofwhicharetransferredfromverbs.GaoMingkai(高名凱)oncepointedoutthattheChinesepeopledon’tliketousetoomanyemptywordswithoutbasicmeanings,andtheyjustdisposeofthethingsandmeaningsinordertoleadthereaderstounderstandtheconnectionsbetweenthem.MostoftheChineseprepositionsare“borrowed”fromverbs,andstrictlyspeaking,fortheso-calledEuropean-orientedprepositionindeedmostofthemarenotthetrulypreposition.[17]p18AsamatteroffactChineseprepositionsareinfluencedbywesternlanguagesandseemtohavethecharacteristicofproposition.InChinesesomepropositionsareoriginallyverbssuchas“在”、“向”、“進(jìn)”、“到”、“沿”、“拿”etc.Thesepropositionsarealwaysomittedespeciallyinspokenlanguage.

(4)Forexample:

Englishoriginal:

Renewablesourcesthenwillhelptoaddressthesocialinequalityacrosstheglobethatweseeinthecurrentlymarkedandunacceptabledifferencebetweenrichandpoornationsintermsofaccesstoanduseofenergysupplies.

Chineseversion:

在能源供應(yīng)的選擇與使用方面，我們看到富國與貧國之間存在著今人難以接受的顯著差距，再生性能源將有助于消除這種全球性的社會(huì)不公。

IntheEnglishoriginaltheprepositionsare:to,across,in,between,in,of,toandofonebyone,whilefortheChineseversionthereareonlythreeprepositions,whichare在……方面,與……之間,于.Prepositions--thehypotacticmarkerswhicharemorecommonlyusedinEnglishcanbeclearlyseenfromthiscomparisonexample.

Butthisdoesn’tmeanthattheChinesepeoplespeakwithoutlogicalreasons,forwithoutthepropositionwecanalsounderstandthemeaningimpliedinthem.IntheChineseversionwithoutanyconjunctionsandmanyprepositionstheauthoronlysimplyconnectsthreephraseswithoutanyhypotacticmarkbetweenthem,butwecanalsofullyunderstandwhattheauthorwantstoexpress,forthereasonthatChineseisakindofparatacticlanguage.

3.4.3Otherconnectivemeans

Thethirdclassificationofso-calledotherconnectivemeansreferstomorphologicalchangingforms,suchasthemorphologicalchangingformsofaffix,gender,number,style,tense,voice,comparativeformandpersonalpronoun.etc.[18]104

(5)Forexample:

Englishoriginal:

ThepricevolatilityofAfrica’shydrocarbonimportshasplayedhavocwitheachstate’seconomyoverrecentdecadesandstymiedprogress.

Chineseversion:

最近幾十年來非洲烴進(jìn)口價(jià)格的不穩(wěn)定性已經(jīng)給各國經(jīng)濟(jì)造成了巨大破壞并妨礙了發(fā)展。

FromtheEnglishoriginalversionwemayseethat“’s,s,-ed”arethemorphologicalchangingforms,whicharetotallyseven.WhileintheChineseversion,theonlymorphologicalchangingformsare“的”and“了”.Chineseisakindoflanguagewithouttoomanymorphologicalchangingformsandthesubstitutewordssuchas“it”and“there”.Inaword,Chinesetrytoomittheunnecessaryformaldecorationsemphasizingparataxis,andtherearelesshypotacticusagesinChinesethanthoseinEnglish.

3.5Theconcludedstatisticalresults

WecanhaveaclearviewofthegreatdifferencesbetweenEnglishandChinesefromthecomparisonoftheabovetranslation,fromwhichwemayseethatEnglishisakindofsyntheticlanguage.Andthesyntheticcharacteristicistousethemorphologicalchangingformstoexpressthegrammarrelationships.ThedefinitiongivenbyWebster’sNinthNewCollegiateDictionaryis:Asyntheticlanguageis“characterizedbyfrequentandsystematicuseofinflectedformstoexpressgrammaticalrelationships.”[19]p1(Heresyntheticnearlymeanshypotaxis,whichismyowninterpretation.AsforthedetailsIwillhavetoneglectforconciseness.)

FromtheChinesetranslationversionandtheformabove,wemayseethattheChinesesentencesseldomusetheformallanguageconnectingforms.Chineseplacestheattentiononcovertcoherence.

4.Theinfluenceofthinkingpatternsonlanguagesespecially,hypotaxisandparataxis

FromthecomparisonsIpresentabovewemayseethatthedifferencesbetweenhypotaxisandparataxishaveresultedinthedifferentsentencestructuresandlanguageexpressionforms.Theformingofthesedifferences,inmyopinionmustbetracedbacktothediversityoftheirthinkingpatterns,fortheyarecloselyconnectedwiththewaytorecognizetheworldandtojudgewhatisthemostimportant.

4.1ThemaindifferentcharacteristicsofEnglishandChinese

Thedifferencesbetweenhypotaxisandparataxishavehelpedtoformthetwolanguagestheirownstyles.

InthecomparisonsandtheorystatedabovewehaveknownthatEnglishusesmanyconjunctions,prepositionsandotherconnectivemeanstomakelinksbetweenphrasesandwords,becauseofwhichthelanguageismorelogicalandbetterorganized.SoMaoRongguiholdstheopinionthatEnglishisakindoflanguagethatisfullofvirilequalities,forthecharacteroflinearlogic,organizationandration,whichhasledittobe“masculinity”.[20]p420

Ontheotherhand,Chinesehasgotitsownbeauty,whichdoesn’tpaytoomuchattentiontologicaldescriptionoftheobjectivereality.Furthermore,itisnotclingingwiththecriterionofthelanguagestructure.Chineseisakindoflanguagethatshowsthecharacterof“femininity”,andthecharmingofitliesinitsloosestructure.[21]p420

4.2Theexampleused

(6)Forexample:

Englishoriginal:

Renewablesourcesthenwillhelptoaddressthesocialinequalityacrosstheglobethatweseeinthecurrentlymarkedandunacceptabledifferencebetweenrichandpoornationsintermsofaccesstoanduseofenergysupplies.

Chineseversion:

在能源供應(yīng)的選擇與使用方面，我們看到富國與貧國之間存在著今人難以接受的顯著差距，再生性能源將有助于消除這種全球性的社會(huì)不公。

4.3Thedifferenceofmodeofthought

Regardingtothis,thereasonsmustbeexaminedfromthedifferentthinkingpatternsandtheirformingreasons.

ThedifferencesofphilosophyandculturalbackgroundbetweenEnglishandChinesehaveresultedintherethinkingoftheHannationalityasanentiretythinkingcountryandtheEnglishpeopleindividualcharacteristicsofthinking.

4.3.1Chinesethinkingpattern----Entirety

TheChinesepeopleareconcernedmorewiththeirownbodiesinexpressingemotions,sointuitionthinkingisthemainfeatureoftheirmodeofthought,forwhichpeoplestudyobjectsasawholeandemphasizeentirety.Chinesephilosophyissystematicalnaturalism.[22]p420

4.3.2Englishthinkingpattern----Individualism

TheEnglishpeoplelinktheirownemotiontoplanetaryinfluenceandthenaturalelements,sotheypreferanalyticallogicthinking.Targetobjectsaresubordinatedintosmallpartsinordertobescrutinized,which,ofcourse,mayleadthemtoplacethecomponentsbeforethewholewhentheytrytoknowsomething.[23]p420

4.4UsingthetheorytoanalyzetheEnglish-Chinesetranslation

IntheEnglishoriginalthesentencecomponentsareasthefollowings:

SubjectRenewablesources

Predicatewillhelptoaddress

Objectthesocialinequality

ThemostcommonlyusedwordorderforEnglishisthestrictSVO.Englishsentencestakeverbsastheircores,whicharetheircentercontrollingalltherelationshipsbetweenthesentencecomponents.Exceptthepredicateverballtheverbstaketheformofindefiniteformtomakedifferencefromthepredicateverb,andmanyprepositionsandconjunctionsareusedtoconnectthephrasescontained.ForChineseitusuallymakesgooduseofverbstogetherinonesentencetopresentthethingsonebyoneaccordingtothetimewhenthethingshappened.[24]P57

Structuralismlinguisticspromotesthetheoryofconstituentincision,whichmeanstoseparatethesentencestophraseunities.[25]p31Moreovertheyprefertheconstituentanalysis,whichmeanstoconnectallofthelanguagecomponentstootherswhentheyareanalyzed.ThiskindofmethodwillchangetheEnglishtotherecognizedobjectsfromstructures.

FromtheEnglish-Chinesecomparisonabovewemayseethatbesidesthebasiccomponents----subject,objectandpredicatetherearealsomanyothercomponentattachedclosely,whichIwilllistthembellow.

Smallcomponents:

acrosstheglobe

thatwesee

inthecurrentlymarked

andunacceptabledifference

betweenrichandpoornations

intermsofaccessto

anduse

ofenergysupplies.

AccordingtothetheoryIstatedabovewemayknowthatforEnglishthetargetobjectsaresubordinatedintosmallpartsinordertobescrutinized,which,ofcourse,mayleadthemtoplacethecomponentsbeforethewholewhentheytrytoknowsomething.Sowemayseethattheauthorformsintheirmindthedetailsoftheirrecognitionandthenconnectthemtogetherusingthelanguageforms---hypotacticmarkers.Forthesmallcomponentslistedthereareatlessahypotacticmarkertolinkitwiththecomponentsbehind,sothedescriptionismoredelicate.

TheChineseisintuitional,paringwithEnglish,Chineseismorecompactandfaintness.Inintuitionalthinkingpeoplestudyobjectsasawholeandemphasizeentirety.Sowhenpeopleareorganizingorunderstandinglanguage,theyprefertostartfromtheentiretyandgetthewholefeelingfirst.

IntheChineseversiontherearethreephrases,whichareplaceddirectlytogetherwithoutclearconjunctions.Thephrases“我們看到富國與貧國之間存在著今人難以接受的顯著差距”and“再生性能源將有助于消除這種全球性的社會(huì)不公”areuniquesentencesinChinese,butcanbedirectlyplacedtogether,whichisunacceptableinEnglish.Butthoughthereisnotanyconjunctiontolinkthemitcanalsobeclearlyunderstood.SothereaderscouldnotjudgetherelationshipfromthelanguageexpressionjustlikethatinEnglish.Inordertounderstandthemeaningsimpliedinthephrasesthereadersmustjudgefromahigherdegree----intuition.Inaword,basedonvisualizedmodeofthought,Chinesetendstoexpressabstractconceptusingparatacticformsthatcontainsmanyimpliedmeaningsbetweenthelines.Onlyinsimplesentencescantheauthorexpressabundantmeaningswithartisticconceptions.

AswhatIsaidabovethestrictSVOsentencestructureiscommonlyusedwordorderinEnglish,whilethesentencestructureforChineseisnotsostrictlyrequired.UsuallyseveralSVOstructurescanbeplacedonebyonetoexpresssomethingsinonesentenceonly.InmyownopiniontheSVOphraseisperfectlyusedtoconnectthesmallcomponentstogether,andthedetailedcomponentsarewheretheEnglishpeoplestarttheirthinking.InthisconditionIwouldliketoassimilatethepredicateverbtothetrunkofthegrapethatcombinesallthegrapestogether.WhilefortheChinesethewholeintuitionisformedatfirstandthenthephrasesareplacedonebyonewithoutusingtoomanyconnectingformsjustlikethebamboojointswhichgrowonebyone.

Wangying（王寅）thefamousprofessoroncesaidthatsomelinguisticslivelycompareEnglishstructureas“grapestructure”,forthemaintrunkofthegrapeisveryshortwithmanyfruitattachedonittoformverylongsentences.Differentfromthat,theChinesesentencesareshorter.Thephrasesareusuallyplacedonebyonetoexpresstheauthor’smeanings.Chineseinformationstructuresarejustlikethebamboojoints,withthejointsconnectedoneendbyoneend,soChineseiscalled“bamboostructure”.[26]p2

5.Conclusion

FromthecomparisonoftheEnglish-Chineselanguagesandtheirmodesofthought,wemayseethattheyareofonethingbuttwoaspects.Resultedfromdifferentculturalbackground,thedifferencesoftheirmodesofthoughthavegreatlydeterminedtheirownlanguages.Ontheotherhand,thelanguagesalsoreflectandinfluencedtheirthinkingpatterns.SoinordertolearnEnglishwellandbettermasterthetwolanguagesthethinkingpatternsshouldbestudieddeeply.Inmyownopinion,thestudyoflanguagesfromthedegreeofthinkingpatternwillgreatlybenefitthelearners.Forexample,itwillgivetheguidetotheteachingofsecondlanguageandthewritingofcomposition.Ofcoursemodeofthoughtbelongstophilosophy.Soitisaverycomplicatedconcept,andtogodeepintoitwillneedaverylongtimeandalsorequiresmanyefforts.

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