Contrastive Studies Of Chinese Research Articles

A Description of Cultural Attitudes and Language Expression Relating to Request Discourse: A Contrastive Study of Chinese, Korean and Japanese for the Resolution of Cross-Cultural Problems

A Description of Cultural Attitudes and Language Expression Relating to Request Discourse: A Contrastive Study of Chinese, Korean and Japanese for the Resolution of Cross-Cultural Problems

A Contrastive Study of Chinese and American University Students’ “Friend” Concepts

The research aims to get representations and cultural causes of cross-cultural differences in Chinese and American University Students’ “friend” concepts by empirical studies including questionnaire and interviews. Based on the statistics of the research, the research analyzes the different interactions of “friends” in different cultures and explores their deep causes from aspects of social organizations, life styles, thinking modes, etc..

A Contrastive Study of Chinese and British English Request Strategies Based on Open Role-play

This study investigates the similarities and differences in request strategies used by native speakers of British English and Mandarin Chinese. The method of a non-prescriptive open role-play is used as the instrument of data collection. After the analysis of the data is conducted, the findings of the study is presented and discussed, including the realization of three main requests strategies. Besides, this paper also focuses on how request strategies interact with the two social variables of power and distance.

A Contrastive Study of Chinese and English Address Forms

Address forms are easily observed in people’s daily utterances, which play a significant role in the smooth development of a whole communication process. There are various address forms in Chinese and English addressing systems, which have similarities and differences. This paper is a contrastive study of address forms in the two languages. The significance of the study is first presented. And the contrastive study is carried out in the second part through four aspects, i.e., names, kinship terms, titles, pronouns, respectively. The causes of such differences are finally expounded, among which cultural orientation is the primary one.

A Contrastive Study of Chinese and British English Request Modifications

This study is a contrastive one on the speech act of request in British English and Mandarin Chinese. It investigates the similarities and differences in request modifications used by native speakers of both languages on the bases of nine designed situations. The choice of modifications in each situation is determined to some degree by the social variables of power and distance. However, a deeper reason lies in the different cultural backgrounds of the two different languages.