Modern Social Science Research

The differences in production modes and language forms lead to the grant difference between Chinese and western thinking mode. Chinese traditional thinking modes impose importance upon the image thinking and holistic thinking, while the western thinking modes upon logical and abstract thinking. The thinking modes difference make Chinese sentence patterns possess their own characteristics which are far apart from those of western languages, i.e. (1) Chinese sentences simulate the scene instead of the explicit logic. (2) the subjects in Chinese sentences are often missed or transferred. (3) Chinese sentences simulate the implicit recognition schemes. With sober awareness of the difference between Chinese and western sentence patterns, we can rightly use these languages and effectively avoid the translationese which has polluted Chinese. Moreover, the study of the sentence pattern differences can offer some implication to the study of the evolution of language.

Thinking mode; Sentence pattern