本书选取对翻译实践造成困难的汉英语言差异为主题,对汉英两种语言进行了详细的对比分析,内容涉及词汇、语义、句法和语用等领域,既可作为英语专业高年级及研究生阶段语言学、翻译方向教材,亦可供翻译自学者参考。《汉英对比语言学》具有以下主要特点: 视角新颖,突显作者多年研究的独特见解;强调实用性,通过大量例证说明两种语言的差异,使学习者在两种语言之间进行转换时更加自如;兼顾理论性,分析造成两种语言差异的原因,加深学习者的理解;选取大量*新语言表达方式,说明两种语言的特点和*新发展,新颖有趣;练习设置形式多样,趣味性强,鼓励学习者积极观察和思考。

chapter 1 language and thinking
1.1 introduction
1.1.1 definition of language
1.1.2 characteristics of language
1.2 comparison of english and chinese
1.2.1 reason for contrastive studies between english and chinese
1.2.2 apreliminary comparison
chapter 2 words and characters
2.1 english letters and chinese characters
2.2 development of chinese characters
2.3 the relation between chinese characters and words
2.4 motivation of words
2.5 meaning of words
2.6 word as a unit
chapter 3 primal words and secondary words