A Contrastive Study of Chinese and English Idiom

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10.2991/snce-18.2018.235How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Idioms; Contrast; Intercultural communication

Abstract

Idioms, which reflect the longstanding and profound culture of the East and the West, are regarded as the fruit of human wisdom. This thesis makes a contrastive study of Chinese and English idioms, which is based on the Contrastive Linguistics Theory and analyzes idioms from Intercultural Communication between Chinese and the western. Through the contrastive study of Chinese and English idioms, people will understand the differences between Chinese and Western cultures better.

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© 2018, 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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AU  - Xinzhuo Jiang
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TI  - A Contrastive Study of Chinese and English Idiom
BT  - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Network, Communication and Education (SNCE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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