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d rationalism. On the base of rational thinking, the world is composed of something special that beyond people’s understanding and people’s action could not affect anything but reflect the rational structure of world like a mirror.
 Afterwards, rationalism has become a philosophical theory that infiltrated to every aspect of the world and influenced west people’s minds, behaviors and languages deeply. Rationalism is also consistent with Aristotelianism that takes emphasis on scientific experiments and formal demonstration. As a result, European natural science has been greatly pushed forward.
 Moreover, western people’s thinking is individual and distinctive. They always pay more attention to individual and independent role and interrelationship of each other. Compared with Chinese people’s overall thinking and collectivism, people in west have received individualism-prefer Education. They are more likely to stand on their own and rely on their own strength. The realization of self value, protection of personal privacy and competition are particularly advocated nowadays. Compared with Chinese people who used to live with their parents after 18 years old or even marriage, people in west are more likely to live independently and challenge all the difficulties outside with their own strength. Especially they have been used to take part-time jobs since high school which is obviously good for their future careers. What’s more, westerners also uphold the spirit of competition extraordinarily, which has been shown in the field of sports evidently. In contrast to Chinese people’s modesty toward each other, westerners are more inclined to win games without considering friendship or other distracting thoughts.
 From the above, it can be summarized that parataxis and coherence are important in Chinese while hypotaxis and consistence in English. Equally, Chinese people’s comprehensive, overall thinking as well as westerners’ rational and individual thinking can be reflected at the same time.

Ⅳ. Sino-Western Thinking Patterns from Semantic Differences
 Semantics can be simply defined as the study of meaning. And meaning is central to the study of communication. In this thesis, the study of meaning will be limited from a linguistic point of view. According to the linguists who have been working toward the ideal of scientific objectivity, the meaning should be studied in terms of situation, use, context-elements closely linked with language behavior.
4.1 Semantic Differences between Chinese and English
 4.1.1 Briefness, Simplicity and Implicitness in Chinese
 Idioms are thought to be the best representative of the briefness and simplicity in Chinese. For instance, “守株待兔”, tells us a man who does nothing at all every day but stay beside a tree to wait for rabbits that may properly hit the stump and be caught by him just as the same thing happened once. Therefore, Chinese people always warn the lazy not to be the person in the story because it will end up with nothing. Besides, the implicitness can also be seen from antithetical couplet which is a valuable cultural tradition that has been inherited for thousands of years. E.g. “一弹流水一弹月，半入江风半入云”, which contains only fourteen words, but the beauty of implicitness and artistic conception is shown clearly.
 Chinese people tend to state fact first before declaring speaker本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。