Author(s)

Keyue Chen ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ College of Chinese Language and Culture, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Corresponding Author

Keyue Chen

ABSTRACT

Commendatory and derogatory words are two kinds of words which have additional attitudinal inclination based on the conceptual meaning of the words. Utterers convey their positive or negative attitude towards people, objects, and phenomena in discourses with commendatory and derogatory words both intentionally and unconsciously. This study draws multifaceted comparisons between Chinese and English commendatory and derogatory words from the aspects of scale, distribution of POT (parts of speech), morpheme structure, meaning extension, and application in discourses through statistics and analyses of dictionaries and thesauri.

KEYWORDS

Commendatory words, Derogatory words, Attitudinal words, Comparison between English and Chinese, Appraisal system.

CITE THIS PAPER

Keyue, C., A Comparison between English and Chinese Commendatory and Derogatory Words: A Study Based on Dictionaries and Thesauri. Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2018) 2: 116-124.

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