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The Comparative Analysis Of Loan Words In The Chinese And Russian Languages

Posted on:2013-06-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L Y LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330371480370Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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The goal of research is expressing our thoughts and makingcommunications. Language is the tool we use to express and express as themost direct communicative instruments since the ancient times. Languagealways keeps pace with the development of society and culture. Exoticwords. As the most irreplaceable elements in the system of everylanguage,they all have their roots and theaters.Loanword in the course of language evolution directly reflects theinterpenetration between different languages. Take Chinese and Russian asan example, the diverse loanwords in these two long-standinglanguages are influenced by the different cultural basis in a profound andlasting manner. They all take initiative or passive to contact with othernations in politics economy culture education and so on they are incommon in absorbing the exotic words but have their own characteristic. Itkeep with the development of their different policy culture nationalmentality and the position.Loanwords are words adopted by the speakers of one language froma different language (the source language). A loanword can also be called aborrowing. The abstract noun borrowing refers to the process of speakersadopting words from a source language into thei"r native language. L"oan"and borrowing are of course metaphors, because there is no literallending process. There is no transfer from one language to another, andno "returning" words to the source language. They simply come to be usedby a speech community that speaks a different language from the one theyoriginated in.
Keywords/Search Tags:Chinese, Russian, Loanword
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