The Comparative Study On Russian And Chinese Book Subsidiaries

Book subsidiary is a basic concept in the fields of edition and press, which has not aroused the wide interest of linguistic researchers, especially Russian linguistic researchers. This dissertation focuses on the research of book subsidiaries, which has features of text. Based on the study of relevant linguistic and editologic theories , the dissertation attempts to analyze the Russian and Chinese book subsidiaries, discuss and summarize similarities and differences between them. Our contrast study on subsidiaries has carried out from five perspectives: information, audience, retrospection and prospection, semantic independence and appraisal. The dissertation tends to regard text content as information, which mainly concludes factual information about the main text, honorific and modest expressions and expressions of acknowledgment. Audience in book subsidiaries consists in two aspects: audience of text (subsidiaries) and audience of book. The former is expressed primarily by person deixis, while the latter—by the aid of a series of comparatively fixed vocabulary expressions; Russian and Chinese belong to the different language families, which result in the differences of retrospection and prospection triggers in Russian and Chinese book subsidiaries, and transtextuality between the different texts is an important form of intertextuality; Epigraph, free fragment and memory fragment have semantic independence and are regards to be three important independent semantic fragments in Russian and Chinese book subsidiaries; Meanwhile, based on the study of Appraisal Theory, this dissertation contrasts the appraisal expressions in Russian and Chinese book subsidiaries from aspects such as attitude, engagement and graduation.