A Comparative Study Of Russian And Chinese Promising Signs

With the development of the society and the frequent contacts between different countries, cross-cultural communication is getting more and more important, public signs arise at the historic moment and play a vital role in modern society. Public signs not only adapt to our developing society, but also facilitate the lives of people by the most simple and accessible forms. They meet the needs of people to use the languagewith a time-saving, effort-saving and quick way.As a special genre, public signs lead the public in public places with texts and graphics and is divided into five classes by the schematic function: the function of directing, prompting, appealing, restricting and prohibiting. The prompting signs serve as a reminder to inform public in public places with the tone tactful and without absolute constraints on behavior of people. This paper redefines thedefinition, functions, classification of public signs and prompting signs to determine the object and the scope of research. And then to classify a large number of examples. Through a comparative study of linguistic characteristics features based on morphology, sentence structure and discourse structure to reveal the similarities and differences between Russian and Chinese prompting signs. The major reason is that Russian and Chinese belong to two types of language. In addition, this paper also found each of Russian and Chinese prompting signs has its own extra-linguistic characteristics which are associated with the differences of cultural and thinking-mode between the two nations.To contrast the Russian and Chinese prompting signs in order to understand their linguistic characteristics and provide references to the fiction, standard, translation, Russian teaching andexternal Chinese teaching of public signs.