This book is a textbook used by TCFL (teaching Chinese as a foreign language) majors at the undergraduate level in regular institutions of higher learning and also available for students of relevant majors and lovers of contrast between Chinese and English. Contrast between Chinese and English is a major expansion course opened for undergraduate TCFL majors. The book mainly discusses the basic theory and methods of contrast between Chinese and English, and analyzes systematically similarities and differences between Chinese and English on pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, discourse and pragmatics, rhetoric and .language cultural from both macroscopic and microscopic aspects. It attaches importance to not only providing references to students future teaching and research work, but also the students ability of conducting TCFL teaching research, translation research, and researches on Chinese by means of contrast between Chinese and English. - from Amzon