A Contrastive Study Of Hantai 's Numerals

Modern Chinese and Thai numerals and the numeral structural are similar to the meaning and structure, differences in representation and word order. This thesis is a comparative study of the Chinese and Thai numerals, especially the cardinal numeral. Compared to the similarities and differences between Chinese and Thai numerals by meaning and cultural meaning of the systematic study of the significance and function of numerals in Chinese and Thai language in their environment, and explain the characteristic of numeral cultural connotation, reveal cultural factors causing the differences of Chinese and Thai numeral system, reduce communication failures, the elimination of second language learners because the gap caused by the cultural differences between the source language and the target language on the understanding of.There are five chapters in this thesis.Chapter one is an introduction. This part is mainly about the research scope and object, Presents the Chinese and Thai definitions of the numeral and the general description of the previous researches. In the meanwhile, this chapter explains the significance of the topic and the approaches of this study.Chapter two is a Chinese and Thai numerals representation method comparison. In this part through the comparison of Chinese and Thai numerals representation method to distinguish the differences between the numerals. Find a numeral system is basically in the same, and the difference is in the language of the sentence and word order.Chapter three is a systematic comparison about Chinese and Thai numerals the peculiar numerals and usage contrast, this part of the Chinese and Thai numerals system which have their special significance and cultural differences. And also has a number of words formation were compared.Chapter four is cultural differences between Chinese and Thai numerals. This part is the Chinese and Thai numerals with the rich connotation of cultural comparison. Between the two cultures also exist obvious differences. Resulting in the numeral cultural connotation but also has the difference.Chapter five this part is the full text of the summary of main points is summarized elaborated the necessity and importance of the study of numeral from the cultural aspect. At the same time also pointed out that the comparative study of Chinese and Thai numerals.