Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Social Science Research

Research on the Illogical Phenomena Existing in English Language

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Chi Zhang
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Chi Zhang
Available Online July 2014.
DOI
10.2991/icassr-14.2014.23How to use a DOI?
Keywords
English; language; thought; illogical phenomena
Abstract

Beginning with the relationship between human languages and human thoughts, this paper expounds firstly on the logicality of human thoughts and human languages. Since human thoughts share common logic characteristics and, human languages reflect those thoughts, languages usually have some common logic characteristics as well. Then it elaborates upon the large variety of illogical phenomena existing in three aspects of the English language——the rules of pronunciation, the words’ formation, and the syntactic meanings. At last, it analyzes the causes of these illogical phenomena and the enlightenments they bring to us——although they increase the difficulty of English learning, they enrich the English language as well thus, making the English language more colorful and intriguing.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Social Science Research
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
July 2014
ISBN
10.2991/icassr-14.2014.23
ISSN
1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/icassr-14.2014.23How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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