A Comparative Study of Syntactic Hypotaxis and Parataxis in English and Chinese From the Aesthetic Perspective of Classical Painting

Mei DONG, Qing MA

Abstract


Parataxis is the main grammatical feature of Chinese sentences while hypotaxis is the main grammatical feature of English. Similarly, Chinese classical paintings stress on the psychological harmony of subject-object unity and Western classical paintings on extrinsic form. It is found that the aesthetic thinking of classical painting is reflected in English and Chinese syntactic structure.


Keywords


Classical painting; Hypotaxis; Parataxis; Aesthetic thinking

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