Study on the Comparison of Chinese-English Synonyms
Qiuzhong Ou · 2015
In this thesis a comparison between Chinese and English synonyms has been made in terms of concept, classification, definition, differentiation standards, synonymous fields, and so on; and this thesis also points out the importance of comparison studies on Chinese and English synonyms. Through comparison, it is found that there is practically no difference between Chinese and English synonyms in concept, classification, and definition. There may be several differentiation measures or standards for word discrimination in a synonymous semantic field. There is little difference in macro distribution of differentiation standards between Chinese and English synonymous semantic fields but much, in micro distribution. It is up to the number of the semantic fields or clusters under a certain discriminative standard. Therefore, it is suggested in this thesis that our research task in future should be to formulate and systematize distributions of Chinese and English synonyms in a variety of differentiation standards by means of synonymous semantic fields. KEYWORD: comparison; Chinese-English synonyms; comparability; differentiation standards; synonymous semantic field