Contrastive Linguistics

This book serves as an introduction to contrastive linguistics - the synchronic study of two or more languages, with the aim of discovering their differences and similarities, especially the former, and applying these discoveries to related areas of language study and practice. It discusses the principles and methods, and contrasts English, Chinese, German, and other languages at phonological, lexical, grammatical, textual, and pragmatic levels, focusing more on the useful insights contrastive analysis provides into real-world problems in fields such as applied linguistics, translation and translation studies, English or Chinese as a foreign language, and communication than on the discipline itself.

Contrastive Linguistics

Ping Ke

Peking University Press

2019

Abstract

The first edition of this book was published under the heading of Contrastive Linguistics in 1999 and has since then been used by many colleges and universities in China as a coursebook or listed as a major reading item for graduate students of English who took the course Contrastive Linguistics. This new edition was revisedand slightly enlarged to accommodate the needs of students studying languages orother subjects in the humanities or social sciences. It may be used as an introductory reader of contrastive linguistics for learners who have little knowledge of linguistics but are interested in such disciplines as Contrastive Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Translation Studies, Second Language Teaching, Chinese as a Foreign Language, Communication, or other subjects of study which involve the use of a second language.

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