A Contrastive Analysis On The Expressions Of Spaces Between Uyghur And Chinese

This thesis is in view of spatial category in the language of representation and its theoretical basis, for modern Uyghur and Han Chinese spatial category expression of horizontal synchronic contrast and illustration. The study tends to describe and explain modern Uyghur spatial category expression. Research originates through the related "space" concept and gets comprehensive, objective understanding of the space category. On the basis of it, the author uses functional linguistics and cognitive linguistics basic theories analyze spatial category semantic system. Around the spatial semantic category, the author uses traditional method to comb, dig out its expression means and forms of Uyghur and Han Chinese. Through the comparison, it reveals two languages’ common characteristics and personality traits of spatial category expression and makes a reasonable explanation as far as possible. This thesis mainly study from the following aspects:The first chapter is "Forewords". This part mainly introduces the meaning of subject selection, the object of study, the research methods and source of the language material.The second chapter is "Uyghur and Han Chinese spatial category expression literature review". It is capable of ranging of existing related research achievements on the arrangement, analysis and we find that modern Chinese spatial category expression study either in research scope, research point, research methods or theory reference and development and other aspects were obtained fruitful results, present a pluralistic and systematic research situation. Either from the modern Uyghur monolingual or from the perspective of contrast of Uyghur and Han Chinese for the space on the semantic category the outcome of the study is few and the research scope is narrow, the study from the perspective of a single, research methods of traditional space, the semantic category as a system for macro, overall research results have not seen. Therefore, this thesis has some of the research significance and value.The third chapter is "space meaning and type of the spatial category ". From the everyday life of the understanding of the "space" to know its complexity and from the non-linguistics and linguistics fields to look at "space", and it can be as the physical world concept of and the language of the concept of the world. From the relationship between language, reality and cognitive, for cognitive main role language space and physical space have contact. Physical space is the existing objective reality space, cognitive space is cognitive main physical space to reality the function of the processing and language space is cognitive main expression of the space of cognitive language form. Based on the categorization theory, the spatial category is divided into three subcategories:entity category, location category and motion category.The fourth chapter is "Uyghur and Han Chinese spatial category expressing means and form contrast". Uyghur and Han Chinese have their own spatial category expression factors. They were at different levels of language. In the two kinds of language expression factors, having two typical groups, one group is Uyghur and Han Chinese location words and another group is Uyghur case inflectional ending with space meaning and Chinese space preposition. The first group of expressive factors is not much different from what appears from the name, but actually for the attribute and function have some differences. The second group expressive factors seem totally different, but in function, attribute is essentially being the consistency of the many.The fifth chapter is "Uyghur and Han Chinese shape category expression contrast". Compare the entity spatial expression of Uyghur and Han Chinese. Through the investigation, we found that except the Chinese entity three-dimensional geometry words, both of measure words have closely prelateships with extensity, the measure words and orientation words are unbounded things to the world, nouns have incorporeal things made entity which has the noun spatial language means. But Uyghur and Han Chinese languages’ code choice and encoding way is different.The sixth chapter is"Uyghur and Han Chinese location category expression contrast". This part emphasizes the spatial position expression of Uyghur and Han Chinese. Spatial phrase is a typical form expression space, from the construction elements of the space phrase, Uyghur case inflectional ending with space meaning is the necessary and compulsory element for space phrase, with prominent typology features. Chinese place word has typology significance. From space phrases indexing means, Uyghur mainly through the noun obtained after the space with case additional righteousness ingredients to indexing, Chinese mainly through space prepositions indexing. From the spatial position of location on the composition, Uyghur is the prepositional type and Chinese is the co-existence of prepositional type and postpositional type. From the space of the word order of phrases and structure types, Uyghur belongs to the main space phrase "location elements swallowed up" type and Chinese mainly belongs to "preposition, noun, location formally division" type. In addition, Uyghur and Han Chinese spatial expression include the situation of the location words looming, but the two languages have different looming mechanism. Han Chinese location words’ looming are influenced by nouns type, its semantic function, space relation, rhythm configuration, semantic need and cognitive pragmatic and so on while Uyghur is only influenced by spatial relationships.The seventh chapter is"Uyghur and Han Chinese motion category expression contrast". This part emphasizes the dimensional space expression of Uyghur and Han Chinese motion. The author references Talmy motion event classification framework language types view,the thesis analyzes Uyghur and Han Chinese motion verbs lexicalization mode and its language type characteristic. The expression of entity physical space’s change location syntactic is motion verbs required the relevant location argument, and it’s the motion reference point of the trajectory,the thesis analyzes the expression form and indexing means of location argumen of Uyghur and Han Chinese.There are different expression form between the different type of amotion event,the thesis analyzes the expression form of autonomousmotion events and causedmotion events of Uyghur and Han Chinese.The eighth chapter is "Conclusion ".To sum up and propose the research limitations and future research plan.