中英文中的模糊语言现象简要对比_英语论文

A Brief Comparison of the Vague phenomena Between English and Chinese

摘要

模糊是自然语言的一个重要特征以及客观属性，并不妨碍语言的交际。模糊一般都能借助语言手段和非语言手段加以澄清，因而通常不构成交际障碍。模糊语言现象的语用功能已经引起广大学者的关注，关于模糊现象的研究也迅速展开并延伸到各个领域。迄今为止，模糊现象的研究成果不仅局限于理论层面，其价值也受到教育、翻译、日常交际以及文化研究等各语用领域的重视。此外，这些对于模糊现象的研究及其成果对以汉语为母语的人的二语习得做出了巨大贡献。本文主要研究了英语和汉语的语音、词汇和句子结构的模糊现象，并对其进行对比分析，阐述了我们在日常学习以及交际中应该怎样更好的掌握与利用这些模糊语言现象，从而达到我们的交流目的。因此，本文的研究有助于以汉语为母语的学习者的二语习得。

关键词：汉语中的模糊现象，英语中的模糊现象，模糊语，比较。

Abstract

Vagueness is an important feature of natural language and also the objective property of language, which makes no prejudice to the communication. As vague can be clarified by verbal and nonverbal means in real communication. The pragmatic use of vagueness in language has aroused great concern of scholars, and the research of it developed rapidly and extends to all areas. So far, the research result of vague phenomenon not only limited in the theoretical level, but also valued by other areas of pragmatic such as education, translation, daily communication and cultural studies and etc. Moreover, these researches about vagueness and their results made a great contribution to the teaching of Chinese and the learning of second language for those whose mother tongue is Chinese. This article made a comparative analysis to English and Chinese languages fuzziness from their voice, vocabulary and sentence structures. Thus, this study also contributes to Chinese-speaking learners of Second Language Acquisition.

Keywords: vagueness in Chinese; vagueness in English; vague language;comparison

Contents

Introduction 1

Chapter One Brief introduction of vague phenomenon in language 3

Chapter Two Vague Phenomenon in Chinese 4

2.1 Vague Caused by Phonological Factors 4

2.2 Vague Caused by Vocabulary 4

 2.2.1 Vague Caused by Semantic Category Conversion 5

        2.2.2 Vague Caused by Uncertain Boundary Limitation 6

2.3 Vague Caused by Sentence Structures 8

Chapter Three Vague Phenomenon in English 9

3.1 Vague Caused by Phonological Factors 9

3.2 Vague Caused by Vocabulary 10

 3.2.1 Vague Caused by Semantic Category Conversion 10

 3.2.2 Vague Caused by Uncertain Boundary Limitation 12

3.3 Vague Caused by Sentence Structures 13

Chapter Four Comparison of the Vague Phenomenon Between Chinese and English 14

4.1  Similarity of the Vague Phenomenon Between Chinese and English 14

 4.1.1 Vagueness of Vocabulary in both English and Chinese 14

 4.1.2 Vagueness of Voice in both English and Chinese 15

 4.1.3 Vagueness of Sentence Structure in both English and Chinese 16

4.2 Differences of the Vague Phenomenon Between Chinese and English 16

 4.2.1 Differences of Vocabulary in English and Chinese 17

 4.2.2 Difference of Sentence Structure in English and Chinese 17

Chapter Five Summary and Suggestion 19

5.1 Summary 19

5.2 Further Suggestion of Studying Vague Phenomenon in English 20

Conclusion 21

Bibliography 22

Acknowledgments 23