A Contrastive Analysis of Russian and English Sentence Structure and its Implications for Linguistic Relativity

• Main Author: Elena Bozoeva
• Other Authors: Shian-jung Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77043301050909536690

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 應用外語系 === 101 === This paper focuses on sentence structure and word order in English and Russian languages in relation to Linguistic Relativity, a hypothesis that suggests, the way we perceive and categorize reality is partly determined by the language we speak. The cognitive view of sentence construction principles provides a key insight into the analysis of differences between English and Russian sentence construction principles and how it affects the preferences of communication strategies of each language. The purpose of the study is to analyze the sentence structure in English and Russian languages, identify the differences in sentence construction principles between these two languages and its effect on the communication strategies preferred by speakers of each language respectively.