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A Contrastive Study of Word Formation in Chinese and Englis 英语专业毕业论文

Achieving Equivalence at Word Level: A Contrastive Study of Word Formation in Chinese and English 1 Introduction Chinese language, as one of the most ancient languages is spoken by more than 1.2 billion, the biggest population in the world. English is spoken by the most people except Chinese, and it is the most influential and most widely used language. For translators working with two important languages, the most basic issue of achieving equivalence at word level can be quite hard and confusing at times as the word formation systems of the two languages are very different to say the least. This is due to the fact that English is an inflective language, while Chinese is not. This paper aims to compare the two different word formation systems in Chinese and English, in the hope of finding some similarities and possible solutions for translators to find ways of achieving equivalence at word level. 2 Word formation in Chinese and English This part of the paper talks about the definition of word in Chinese and English. It will further compare the differences and similarities of word and word formation in general. Then, it will define the methods of word formation and compare them in Chinese and English item by item with examples. Formed with an alphabet, English is an inflective language, which means adding affixes could create new words, or change the class of words. According to Adams (1973, p.7) “the word in English may be simple, composed of one constituent only; or it may be complex, containing more than one constituent.” “Chinese, unlike English, is not an inflective language. Its words are Chinese characters. One Chinese character stands for one syllable. A word that has one syllable is a single-syllable word, while a word that is formed with two or more Chinese characters is called a multi-syllable word. From a historical point of view, the development of Chinese word formation is from single-syllable word to multi-syllable word. Multi-syllable word formation c