Abstract: Our article is about “Comparative study of English and Chinese Idioms”. Its main researching subject is idioms, which are expression of people’s experiences, opinions and emotions. They are playing a very important role in any languages. It is very interesting to make a comparative study of English and Chinese idioms. The phraseological unit as a special form of language, contains a lot of cultural information such as: history, geography, religion, traditions, national psychology, etc. We can say that it represents the historical heritage and cultural development of the product. Hence it follows that studying idioms gives us opportunity to learn more about the culture, and vice versa. The topic is very important to us, as far and different are genetically studied languages from each other. The study of phraseological units in different languages gives us the perspective to thoroughly study the specific language typology, different psychology and culture, also identify the stylistic features of the language. The main subject of our research is the study of Chinese and English idioms on the structural and semantic levels and their translation specificity. For fulfill the main goal, it is necessary to make three different definitions:
1. What is the general definition of expressions and aspects of idioms and in particular what do English and Chinese Idioms mean. 2. How often have idioms used in different styles and different time of authors. 3. How much English and Chinese expressions match to each other.
It is clear that the deep knowledge of idiomatic expressions helps to any person to increase the level of eloquence, also it is possible to expand own language with studying idioms of other languages and using them in our ones.
Keywords: Idiomatic expressions, English and Chinese idioms, comparative study, translation specificity.
Title: Comparative Study of English and Chinese Idioms
Author: Salome Tsikhiseli
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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