A Comparative Study on the Cognition of English-Chinese Passive Sentences

Author: Wang Zhijun
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: This book explores the fundamental reasons and underlying mechanisms for the similarities and differences in the formation of English and Chinese passive sentences from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, based on the basic assumption of "Human Experience—Conceptualization—Schema—Language Form." It explains the local untranslatability, macro-level passivity, and the indirect objectivity of the subject in English and Chinese passive sentences.