Tóm tắt

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 revised and slightly enlarged to accommodate the needs of students studying languages or other 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.