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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 194, 2018
Heat and Mass Transfer in the Thermal Control System of Technical and Technological Energy Equipment (HMTTSC-2018)
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| Article Number | 01023 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201819401023 | |
| Published online | 21 August 2018 | |
The comparison of complexities of the Chinese and Russian languages on the example of terminology of chemistry
1
National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
2
National Research Tomsk State University, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
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Kazan Federal University, 420008 Kazan, Russia
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Samara University, 443086 Samara, Russia
* Corresponding author: ivanova.happy@yandex.ru
The article presents the examples of comparing chemical terms in the Chinese and Russian languages and the results of two experiments conducted with Chinese and Russian students. The first part of the work deals with a comparison of the one–component chemical element names from the periodic table. Then, it continues with dividing different chemical terms in Chinese into several groups: two–component, three–component, four–component, multicomponent group and comparing them with its analogical terms in Russian to analyze the main difficulties in understanding these terms in both languages. The second part of the work presents the main difficulties, revealed during two experiments, conducted with Chinese and Russian students. The students were given texts in their mother tongues with a chemical context, which they wrote and read noting the time. At the end of the work, all the advantages and complexities revealed in the results of the first and second parts of the work were calculated. Similar language comparisons are becoming more relevant in the last few years, for they contribute to development of methods of analyzing languages and discovering new and improved approaches to the study and use of languages.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2018
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