Use of Transitional Words and Phrases in Chinese and English News Writing
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چکیده
Since Kaplan (1966), techniques for contrastive rhetoric have been used to examine the differences in the ways that various language cultures express ideas in discourse. A number of these studies have focused on apparent differences in Chinese and English structures, particularly in student writing and academic research articles. This study examines a particular function in language—transitions. With a focus on online news articles, this study compares and contrasts the way transition words and phrases are used in news writing. From a random selection of articles in both Chinese and English, the specific and general transition types are calculated in order to discover trends in the respective languages. The results suggest that differences do exist between the two language cultures with a focus on information in Chinese and a focus on perspective in English.
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