Differences Between Chinese and English Thinking from the Use of Nouns in Chinese and English

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10.2991/assehr.k.210609.005How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Nouns, English, Chinese

Abstract

Nouns play an essential role in the daily use of language, primarily identifying and naming people and things. Different language users have distinct rules and habitual methods to form words, as well as to pronounce and define grammars. These fixed and conventional language rules are influenced by speakers’ thinking process, meanwhile, form speakers’ particular world views and thinking modes. This article is concerned with the linguistic and thinking phenomenon that different language use and different thinking ways mutually influence each other, taking Chinese and English as typical compared instances. Based on the everyday use of nouns in two languages, this article analyses and summarizes how different word formations and use of nouns reflect different thinking ways.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jingqi Tang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/06/10
TI  - Differences Between Chinese and English Thinking from the Use of Nouns in Chinese and English
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 20
EP  - 25
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210609.005
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210609.005
ID  - Tang2021
ER  -