Comparison of the English titles of articles in Chinese and foreign academic journals: influences of difference between China and the foreign in thinking and psychology.
- Author:
Jie-hua WANG
1
Author Information
1. Foreign Language School of Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou. wjhtophn@yahoo.com.cn
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
China;
Information Dissemination;
Language;
Periodicals as Topic;
Translations
- From:
Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine
2006;26(11):1042-1044
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
By analyzing the East-West difference in psychology and thinking patterns, the author compared the frequency of conventional words applied and the usage of subtitle, as well as the selection of sentence structure in title of articles, and thus advocated that the differences of attention psychology and thinking patterns, linear in the West and spiral in China, were the primary causes for different expressions of articles' title.
