毕业设计论文-the influence of the difference between english and chinese thinking on translation 英语专业.doc

Contents The Influence of the Difference between English and Chinese Thinking on Translation 1 I. Introduction 1 II. The Thinking Modes of Chinese and English reflected in the Language 3 A. The Relationship of Thinking and Language 3 B. The Classification of Chinese and English Thinking Modes 5 1. The Synthetic Thinking Mode vs. the Analytic Thinking Mode 7 2. The Curvilinear Thinking Mode vs. the Linear Thinking Mode 7 3. The Image Thinking Mode vs. the Abstract Thinking Mode 8 4. The Ontological Thinking Mode vs. the Objective Thinking Mode 9 III. The Transfer of Thought Patterns in the Course of Translation 11 A. Transferring between Concreteness and Abstractness 11 B. Rearrangement of Word Order 11 C. Transferring between Covert Coherence and Overt Cohesion 13 D. Rearrangement of Sentence Structure 14 E. Transferring between the Subjective and the Objective 15 IV. Conclusion 17 Bibliography 18 Acknowledgements 19 The Influence of the Difference between English and Chinese Thinking on Translation I. Introduction Nowadays, more and more Chinese People be come to realize that it is a very urgent task to learn English well so as to meet the needs and challenges of the society. Under this circumstance of English Frenzy, a series of problems correspondently arise like mushrooms. How to improve the qualities of English teaching and learning in China nation widely? How to overcome and avoid misunderstandings in communication? How to enhance the overall level of E-C C-E translation etc. Concerned with these problems, scholars, in the field of foreign language teaching and the field of translation, have made new approaches to the principles and methods to actuate their work, e.g. 1994 witnessed a new discipline upon the scene when China Association for Comparative Study of English and Chinese (CACSEC) was established with the initiation made by Zhang Zhiying and other scholars(Zhang Zhiying,2000). However, a thorough study on the relationship between language and th