Abstract
Nowadays, dialect has become more and more valued, people also think its intangible cultural heritage and needs to be protected, after all its important heritage from our ancestor and product of culture from ancient history. The study in Chinese dialect contains theoretical knowledge and practice, it can help developing Chinese. As a country China has a long history and so dose Chinese language, and Chinese dialect involve the study of pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. And dialect often be related to culture and knowledge, people usually judge another person by their accent, to see if they are literate or not. it’s humiliating to be assumed as unliterate. After all it not objective to judge people by their accent, or whether they speak dialect or not.
Nowadays, over three hundred million people use English as their first language. almost out of ten people there’s one speak English. Different country at their long-term using process of English has form their different English variant. They keep the characteristic of English, and also add different feature from standard English. Sometimes even in the same country, under the result of different history geography and social developing,again, appeared some English different from standard English, and also regional English. This kind of English are called English’s regional variant---English dialect.
This paper is to mainly discuss the differences of Chinese and English dialects, from pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. Also the influence factors that help the development of dialect. And there’s a future we need to face both in Chinese and English dialects, that is to keep them from vanishing, because they are both important heritage from our ancestors.
Keywords:Dialect; Chinese; English; Culture; Comparative studies
Contents
Abstract I
Contents I
Introduction 1
1.Overviews of dialects 2
2.Comparisons between two Dialect system. 3
2.1The Comparisons of Pronounce in Chinese and English 3
2.2The Comparisons of Vocabulary in Chinese and English 4
2.3The Comparisons of Grammar in Chinese and English 5
3.Comparisons of Influencing factors in Dialects Development. 6
3.1 Developments in Dialects Caused by History 6
3.2Geographical Influences in Dialect Developing 7
3.3Influences of Economics in Dialect Developing 8
4.The Future Development and Challenge of Dialects. 9
4.1How to Envisage the Future of Chinese Dialects 9
4.2The Precautions of Dialect Vanishing 9
5.Conclusion. 10
References 11
