A Corpus-based Contrastive Analysis of English-Chinese Main Negatives

Taking TED English Chinese Parallel Corpus of Speech as an Example

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10.2991/assehr.k.220401.100How to use a DOI?

Keywords

TED; Speeches; Parallel text; English and Chinese; Negative words

Abstract

The use and development of negative words are related to the historical development of various languages and different nations’ thinking characteristics. This paper has made a contrastive analysis of the negative words of English and Chinese based on “TED English Chinese parallel corpus of speech” to investigate the lexical aspects of negation in the English and Chinese languages and explore the use of negative words and the expression of negative meaning in both languages. Through the corpus comparison, it is found that negative words in Chinese and English have the following differences: 1) English has a richer number of negation words than Chinese, with more diverse negative expressions; 2) Negative words in Chinese are more expressive than those in English, and they often carry subjective cognitive meaning.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rulan Wu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/08
TI  - A Corpus-based Contrastive Analysis of English-Chinese Main Negatives
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 528
EP  - 531
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220401.100
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220401.100
ID  - Wu2022
ER  -