Early researchers regard code-switching as a result of “interference”. The study of code-switching hadn’t become a focal issue among linguists until the beginning of 1970s when Gumperz finds out that there exist social significances in...

This paper will demonstrate the English and Chinese kinship terms from sociolinguistics. It will also take the cultural differences as the background to make a further discussion of the translation of Chinese and English kinship terms....

During communication, people want to get more information through implied meaning. Meanwhile, they tend to control their own emotional expressions, not letting them expose. Aiming at knowing the situation, getting more information about the ...

This paper explores the development of English loanwords in Chinese from the aspect of linguistic features and the aspect of culture. A study of linguistic features of English loanwords in Chinese will help us learn more about the influence ...