The Europeanization in Chinese — Focus on English and Chinese

Abstract

Languages are always progressing, and other languages significantly influence Chinese. The significant influence is a change in the structure of the Chinese sentence. As intercultural communication continues to increase, loanwords are becoming more and more common in daily life. Loanwords fill up the gaps of new things and greatly enrich the vocabulary. Language interactions and the people’s perception of such implicit and explicit cultural influences are critical to understand cultural influences on people and cultural exchange. This paper analyzes loanwords, sentence structure and people’s thinking patterns to find the influence caused by Europeanization and how Europeanization is defined in China. Moreover, this paper analyzes the international context and the related conditions of the Chinese Europeanization phenomenon. In general, the Europeanization of the Chinese is inevitable in the current context. The borrowed words and grammatical changes have enriched the Chinese vocabulary and promoted smooth communication between China and other countries.