Hypotaxis and parataxis
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A Contrastive Analysis of the Chinese and English Version of Rush from the Perspective of Hypotaxis and Parataxis
English and Chinese belong to two different language families. The study of hypotaxis and parataxis indicates that there is a major discrepancy in organizing languages between English and Chinese. The paper is focused on the hypotaxis prominence in English and the parataxis prominence in Chinese. English puts stress on overt formal cohesion which is indicated by the strict Subject Predicate structure, the indispensable connectives and relative words, and other cohesive ties like morphological changes and the frequent use of personal reference. And there are rigorous express of tense through inflectional changes in English to clarify the semantic of sentences. Chinese, on the contrary, lays emphasis on covert semantic coherence, which is manifested in the much more flexible Topic Comment structure and some other cohesive ties like the word order. And logical relationship between Chinese clauses or sentences always hides in their semantic relevance. Sentence coherence is displayed by a logical order or temporal sequence. From the perspective of hypotaxis and parataxis, the paper is aimed at making a contrastive analysis between the original text and the target text of Rush and indicting the differences between English and Chinese in hypotaxis and parataxis based on two major aspects of sentence structure and logical cohesive ties.
Yang Jing Bao Cheng-lian
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A Contrastive Analysis Between the Chinese and English Versions of If I Were King from the Perspective of Hypotaxis and Parataxis
Though sharing some commonalities, English and Chinese do hold their own characteristics. Hypotaxis and parataxis are generally considered to be among the most significant differences between English and Chinese. Though previous studies have analyzed hypotaxis and parataxis from different perspectives, a few of them have applied them to prose translation. If I Were King, a typical essay written by Nie Gannu, is translated by Zhang Peiji (2012) and compiled in his Selected Modern Chinese Essays 1 This paper is in an attempt to make a contrastive analysis between the Chinese and English versions of If I Were King from the perspective of hypotaxis and parataxis. The first part gives a brief introduction to the previous studies on hypotaxis and parataxis and If I Were King. The second part clarifies the meaning of hypotaxis and parataxis. Methodology is discussed in the third part. As the main part of this paper, the fourth part is the case studies on three levels: the lexical level, syntactic level and discourse level. The final part makes a summary and provides some practical suggestions. Through analysis, this paper aims to make other language learners have a better grasp of hypotaxis and parataxis so as to facilitate translation, especially prose translation. Besides, this paper may also provide enlightenment for scholars of contrastive linguistics.
Chen Hongping Zheng Yameng
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Translation of Hypotaxis and Parataxis from the Pragmatic Perspective
English is a hypotaxis prominent language while Chinese is parataxis prominent. English puts stress on hypotaxis for its integral structure and precise morphological changes while Chinese on parataxis for its clear meaning and accurate expressiveness. It is a tangible result of differences between the two languages in modes of thinking, philosophical tradition and profound cultural explanations of the differences. This paper will contribute to tentatively probe into the reasons why writers in English would rather adopt the paratactic structure than hypotactic one structure from the pragmatic perspective. The author thus recommends that the characteristics of hypotactic and paratactic structures in English and Chinese should be discussed from the pragmatic perspective, so as to improve the traditional translation techniques and contrastive study between the two languages.
Xin-yan Wu
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Analysis on the Hypotaxis and Parataxis of English and Chinese Idioms
Sun Lu Yao
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A Comparative Study of Syntactic Hypotaxis and Parataxis in English and Chinese From the Aesthetic Perspective of Classical Painting
Parataxis is the main grammatical feature of Chinese sentences while hypotaxis is the main grammatical feature of English. Similarly, Chinese classical paintings stress on the psychological harmony of subject object unity and Western classical paintings on extrinsic form. It is found that the aesthetic thinking of classical painting is reflected in English and Chinese syntactic structure.
Mei Dong Qing Ma
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On the Techniques of Communicative Dimensional Transformation Between Hypotaxis and Parataxis in Tourist Publicity C E Translation
Communicative dimension,as one of the three key dimensions of eco translatology,plays a very important role in translating tourist publicity materials.With the communicative dimensional transformation techniques of parataxis and hypotaxis,translators should exert their subjectivity and creativity to achieve in maximizing the degree of holistic adaptation and selection for achieving successful translations.
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The Contrastive Analysis of English and Chinese Idioms from the Perspective of Hypotaxis and Parataxis
Hypotaxis and parataxis is the most distinctive feature in the contrast between English and Chinese language. Idioms,the essence of language, are just a type reflecting the distinction of characteristics between the two language. This paper contrastsand analyses the differences of idioms between the two languages respectively in three aspects of the existence of conjunction, ofpreposition and preposition phrase and from sentence patterns. But some parataxis sentences in English idioms and some hypotaxissentence in Chinese sentences are found in the study.
Ding Ju
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On Hypotaxis and Parataxis in English&Chinese Syntactic Structure and Translation
There is a difference between English and Chinese in the syntactic structure. The different culture and the way of thinking is the main reason for that. This paper simply states the syntactic structure's feature of English and Chinese. English language emphases on hypotactic, however, Chinese focus on paratactic. Giving the different feature of syntactic form, in English Chinese translation, we should pay attention to the conversion of hypotactic and paratactic. As the same time, we should use amplification and omission properly in translation.
Yang Xi
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A systemic functional analysis of parataxis and hypotaxis in academic IELTS sample essays
The International English Language Testing, which involves the assessment of four English skills, has been selected as the preferred test to measure English language proficiency of non native English speakers. In IELTS academic writing, grammatical range and accuracy, of which testtakers are required to use, is one of the four criteria employed to evaluate candidates' written essays, which record a considerable occurrence frequency of clause complexes. In order to shape clause complexes, two basic kinds of logical relations in language are employed: parataxis and hypotaxis. They indicate how two or more adjacent clauses are connected to each other in dependent or interdependent ways. This study conducts an analysis of how clause complexes in IELTS academic exposition and discussion essays are formed by highly successful test takers in light of Functional Grammar developed by Halliday and Matthiessen [10] thereby providing non native writers with a better understanding of accurate parataxis and hypotaxis employment to produce good IELTS academic writing essays. 60 sample essays were used as data for text analysis. The findings reveal that prevailing type of taxis employed in IELTS sample essays is hypotaxis, demonstrating that the writers tend to support their viewpoints by utilizing unequal status.
Nguyen Pham
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When hypotaxis looks like parataxis: embedding and complementizer agreement in Teiwa
Teiwa, an Alor Pantar language of the Trans New Guinea family, has been characterized as expressing speech reports not with complementation, but with combinations of two clauses juxtaposed under a single intonation contour with no morphological indication for integration (Klamer 2010: A Grammar of Teiwa, Mouton de Gruyter) We argue, contra Klamer, that speech and attitude reports in Teiwa should be analyzed as embedding (or hypotaxis) We present evidence from intonation, syntax and semantics that speech reports are expressed by a single, monosentential structure in Teiwa with embedding of the speech report. Our results also show that purely morphological diagnostics can be unreliable for distinguishing between a monosentential or bisentential structure of speech reports. We describe several formal experiments from our fieldwork that provide more reliable tests. Our result has implications for both the ongoing theoretical discussions of clausal complementation, complementizer agreement, grammaticalization of complementizers and the historical evolution of complementation.
Uli Sauerland Bartjan Hollebrandse Frantisek Kratochvil