Contrastive connectors in English and Chinese: A case
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This comparative study of however and its Chinese counterparts in two translation corpora (the HLM parallel corpus, and the Babel English-Chinese Parallel Corpus) reveals that the Chinese contrastive relations tend to be expressed implicitly (cf. Wang and Zheng 2004) and Chinese contrastive connectors are generally used in sentence initial position, whereas the English contrastive relations tend to be expressed explicitly and the positions of some of the English connectors can vary. The second initial positions of however are especially common, in which it serves a double function (Altenberg 2006). This remarkable difference should be highlighted and given due attention in the teaching, learning and translation of both languages
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