Analysis of Language Borrowing Between English, Chinese and Japanese 英语专业毕业论文.docVIP

Analysis of Language Borrowing Between English, Chinese and Japanese A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the School of Foreign Studies, Anhui University In Partial fulfillment of the Requirements for The degree of Master of Arts By Under the Supervision of Prof. English Department School of Foreign Studies, Anhui University April 30, 2005 Acknowledgements I wish to express my sincere gratitude to Professor my supervisor, who patiently scrutinized my manuscripts and offered me invaluable comments and instructions. I would also like to extend my hearty thanks to Dr. , my former classmate, who not only provided me with enlightening suggestions for this thesis, but also contributed to the research in collecting language data for me. My special thanks go to Mrs. , a foreign expert who is now working in West Anhui University. She carefully read through the final draft and revised it. I am also grateful to the distinguished professors in the English Department of Anhui University who delivered us wonderful lectures and taught us how to do research work. Finally, I wish to thank all the people who have been encouraging me and supporting me. Abstract Language borrowing is a widespread sociolinguistic phenomenon in the development of language. It is one of the most significant ways of acquiring new words and enriching the vocabulary of a language. Therefore, it is of great value to study language borrowing and try to find the intrinsic principles underlying this phenomenon. Considering this, the present thesis gives a comparatively thorough analysis of language borrowing among three of the most commonly used and studied languages in China at present, namely, Chinese, English and Japanese. This paper probes into language borrowing, especially lexical borrowing between the three languages from different perspectives, which include a historical survey, channels of borrowing, classification and assimilation study. Within the domain of assimilation, it describes