A Comparative Study Of Hypotaxis And Parataxis In English And Chinese And Its Implication For Translation: Reflections On The Translation Of Diagrams

Hypotaxis and parataxis prove to be the most important difference between English and Chinese in that English is hypotaxis-prominent, whereas Chinese, parataxis-prominent. The present paper attempts to make a dialectical study on hypotaxis and parataxis in English and Chinese, to explore their philosophical mechanism and their implications for translation practice by using many examples in translation practice.