A Multi-aspect Study On Unmarked Passive Sentences Base On The Contrast Between Chinese And English

Unmarked passive sentence is a kind of verb predicate construction which is veryimportant in modern Chinese special patterns.It is also one of the most important anddifficult parts in TCFL.Therefore, this article analyses the grammer, semantics andpragmatics of modern unmarked passive sentence from the view of TCFL which bases onthe comparison of Chinese unmarked passive sentence and English notional passivesentence. By using several methods like literature retrieval and comparative analysis, itreveals many important similarities and differences between the two special patterns. ForEnglish-speaking foreign students, this thesis also pointed out the main errors and theirmain reasons during acquiring Chinese unmarked passive sentence. Based on this, someteaching strategies have been offered in the end.The introduction chapter provides the background, significance, range, content,theories, methods and corpus sources of this thesis. In this chapter, it makes a systematicalreview on the precious achievements of Chinese unmarked passive sentence and Englishnotional passive sentence from many aspects. And from this point of view, this chapterpoints out some open questions about Chinese unmarked passive sentence research.The second chapter begins with a redefinition of Chinese unmarked passive sentencefrom the view of TCFL. Then, it tells the main similarities and differences betweenChinese unmarked passive sentence and English notional passive sentence which ongrammatical dimension, semantical dimension and pragmatic dimension.Based on the results of contrastive analysis, the third chapter classifies all the errorsmade by foreign students which collected from the second language learning corpuse aswell as from daily exercises. Therefore, it comes to the conclution that the main errors onChinese unmarked passive sentence could be devided into two categories--syntax errorsand pragmatic errors.At the same time, this chapter also finds out four main reasons ofthose errors.In the fourth chapter, comes up with teaching strategies for English-speaking foreignstudents on Chinese unmarked passive sentence, and makes suggestions on teachingmethods of this pattern, which hoping to provide some reference for TCFL. This thesis adopts literature retrieval to access and review the existing researchachievements, which makes the conclusion much more scientific and credible.It alsomakes comparison on Chinese unmarked passive sentence and English notional passivesentence by using comparative analysis and so on. Besides, this thesis analyzes andclassifies error examples through the method of error analysis.