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1、AContrastiveStudyofLegalLoanwordsinEnglishandChineseAMasterThesisSubmittedtoGraduateSchool,SouthwestUniversityofPoliticalScienceandLawInPartialFulfillmentoftheRequirementsforDegreeofMasterinForeignLinguisticsandAppliedLinguisticsApril2008AcknowledgementsTofinishthisthesis,Ihavebeen
2、preparingcollectingdataforquitealongtime.Somefriendsandteachershaveprovidedmuchinformationformetofindthosebooksandresearchpapersconcerningtothethesis.Mygreatestgratitudeshouldgotomysupervisor,ProfessorXiaoYunshu,whohasgivenmesomegoodadviceandencouragedmewhenIcannotcontinuemythesis.
3、Heisreallythemostpatientandcarefulteacher.AndIamalsogratefultoallmyotherteachersintheEnglishDepartmentofSouthwestUniversityofPoliticalScienceandLaw,whohavetaughtmehowtodevelopanacademicthinking.Manythanksalsogotomyparents.Withtheirhelptotakecareofmysixyearsolddaughter,Icanfinishmys
4、tudyinmythirties.iAbstractSincethebirthoflanguages,theyhavebeenshoulderingtheresponsibilitiesoftransmittinghumancivilizationandcommunicatingculture.Languagesarenotcompletelyisolated.Thecommunicationofdifferentlanguageswillleadtomutualinfluenceandpenetration.Therefore,thefusionoflan
5、guageshasbeenexistingifthereislanguagecontact.Meanwhile,inthecourseoflanguagefusion,theborrowingoflanguagehasgenerallyexited.Vocabulary,asthemostfundamentalandactivefactor,isthemainpartoflanguageborrowing.Loanwords,whichstandfortheirownlanguageandculture,havemadeconflictswiththenat
6、ivelanguageandculturewhentheyenterintoanotherlanguage.Finally,loanwordswhicharefilteredbythenativelanguagecanstayinthenativelanguage,thustheycanmixwiththenativelanguageandtheycanbelocalized.Therefore,theloanwordscanenrichthelexicalsystemofalanguage,andtheycanberegardedascommunicati
7、ngandprosperingculture.Lexicalborrowing,absorbingandassimilatingreflectthesocialcultureofdifferentethnics.Ithasbeengenerallyagreedthatalanguagemayborrowwordsfromthelanguageswhichareincloserelationshipwiththetargetlanguage.Inaddition,themaintaskoftheborrowingistomakeupforalossofword
8、s.Inmanyfields,theprofessi
