| Abstract | 第3-4页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-8页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第8-12页 |
| 1.1 Background of this study | 第8-9页 |
| 1.2 Significance of this study | 第9页 |
| 1.3 Research questions of this study | 第9-10页 |
| 1.4 Methodology of this study | 第10页 |
| 1.5 Layout of this thesis | 第10-12页 |
| 2. Literature Review | 第12-30页 |
| 2.1 Relationship between culture and language | 第12-16页 |
| 2.1.1 Definition of culture | 第12-14页 |
| 2.1.2 Definition of language | 第14-15页 |
| 2.1.3 Relationship between language and culture | 第15-16页 |
| 2.2 Review of high and low context theory | 第16-19页 |
| 2.2.1 Characteristics of high-context culture | 第16-18页 |
| 2.2.2 Characteristics of low-context culture | 第18-19页 |
| 2.2.3 High-context and low-context message conveying | 第19页 |
| 2.3 Review of contrastive studies of Chinese and English languages | 第19-30页 |
| 2.3.1 Hypotaxis and parataxis | 第20-22页 |
| 2.3.2 Synthetic language and analytic language | 第22-25页 |
| 2.3.3 Impersonal subject and personal subject | 第25-26页 |
| 2.3.4 Static language and dynamic language | 第26-28页 |
| 2.3.5 Language contrast based on high and low context theory | 第28-30页 |
| 3. Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and English Based on High and LowContext Theory | 第30-54页 |
| 3.1 Chinese characters and English words | 第30-43页 |
| 3.1.1 Formation of English words and Chinese characters | 第30-36页 |
| 3.1.2 Morphological changes of English and Chinese | 第36-43页 |
| 3.2 Chinese and English syntactic structures | 第43-54页 |
| 3.2.1 Cohesive devices | 第43-48页 |
| 3.2.2 Chinese special sentence patterns | 第48-54页 |
| 4. Reasons for the Differences Between Chinese and English Languages | 第54-62页 |
| 4.1 Different thought patterns | 第54-55页 |
| 4.1.1 Image thinking and logical thinking | 第54-55页 |
| 4.1.2 Integrated thinking and analytic thinking | 第55页 |
| 4.2 Historical and social reasons | 第55-58页 |
| 4.2.1 Immigration and industrial development in American society | 第55-57页 |
| 4.2.2 Agrarian lifestyle and feudalism in Chinese society | 第57-58页 |
| 4.3 Philosophical and religious reasons | 第58-62页 |
| 4.3.1 Christianity and the ancient Greek philosophy in America | 第58-59页 |
| 4.3.2 Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism in Chinese society | 第59-62页 |
| 5. Conclusion | 第62-66页 |
| 5.1 Major findings | 第62-63页 |
| 5.2 Implications | 第63页 |
| 5.3 Limitations | 第63-64页 |
| 5.4 Suggestions | 第64-66页 |
| Bibliography | 第66-69页 |
| Acknowledgments | 第69-70页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文 | 第70-73页 |
| Appendix | 第73-82页 |
