侯广旭编著的《英汉对比语言学史》是“中央高校基本科研业务费用专项基金项目”成果。作者采用历史分析的方法，将我国英汉对比语言学分为开创阶段（20世纪上半叶）、停滞阶段（20世纪50和60年代）、复兴阶段（20世纪70和80年代）和繁荣阶段（20世纪90年代至今）四个发展阶段，详细列举了各个阶段中代表学者如马建忠、吕叔湘、严复等人的突出贡献，勾勒出我国英汉对比语言学的发展历程和研究成果，并指出发展中存在的问题和不足。

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 English-Chinese Contrastive Studies in the First Half of the 20th

 Century: The Pioneering Stage

 2.1 Contrastive Studies Under the Guidance of General Grammar

 2.1.1 Contributions of Ma Jianzhong

 2.1.2 Contributions of Li Jinxi

 2.1.3 Contributions of Chen Chengze

 2.2 Contrastive Studies Under the Guidance of General Linguistics

 2.2.1 Contributions of Wang Li

 2.2.2 Contributions of Lu Shuxiang

 2.2.3 Contributions of Gao Mingkai

 2.2.4 Contributions of Chao Yuen Ren

 2.2.5 Contributions of Yang Shuda

 2.2.6 Contributions of Yen Fuh

 2.2.7 Contributions of Lin Yutang

 2.2.8 More Noteworthy Contributions

 2.3 Summary

Chapter 3 English-Chinese Contrastive Studies in the 1950s and 1960s: The

 Stagnation Stage

 3.1 English-Chinese Micro-Contrastive Studies for the Purpose of TEFL and

 Translation

 3.1.1 Contributions of Loh Dianyang

 3.1.2 Contributions of Zhang Peiji

 3.1.3 Contributions of Ch'ien Chungshu

 3.1.4 More Noteworthy Contributions

 3.2 Breakthroughs in the English-Chinese Contrastive Studies Under the

 Guidance of General Linguistics

 3.2.1 More Contributions of Chao Yuen Ren

 3.2.2 More Noteworthy Contributions

 3.3 Summary

Chapter 4 English-Chinese Contrastive Linguistics in the 1970s and 1980s:

 The Restoration Stage

 4.1 The Improvement of Social Climate for Research

 4.2 The Onset of Contrastive Linguistics and the Appearance of Contrastive

 Theorizing

 4.2.1 The Institutional Establishment of Education and Research in

 Contrastive Linguistics in Universities

 4.2.2 The Academic Establishment of the Discipline and the Appearance of

 Contrastive Theorizing

 4.3 Broad Scope of Contrastive Linguistics and Narrow Focus of Micro-

 Contrastive Studies

 4.4 The Appearance of Macro-Contrastive Studies at the Facets of Discourse,

 Pragmatics, Rhetorics, Cognition, Psychology and Culture

 4.5 Summary

Chapter 5 English-Chinese Contrastive Linguistics from the 1990s to the

 Present: The Prosperous Stage

 5.1 The Consolidation of Academic Foothold, the Expansion of Research Teams

 and the Increase of Scholarly Publishing

 5.1.1 The Publication of Influential Collections of Contrastive Theses ...

 5.1.2 Contrastive Educational and Research Programs in Universities

 5.1.3 The Founding of China Association for Comparative Studies of English

 and Chinese (CACSEC) and Its Active Operation

 5.2 Intensive Theorizing on Contrastive Linguistics as a Discipline

 5.2.1 The Explicit Definition, Scope, Classification, Theoretical Framework

 of Contrastive Linguistic Inquiry

 5.2.2 Intensive Theorizing on the Discipline and Its Methodology

 5.2.3 The Active Introduction of the Western Linguistic Theories and

 Research Methodology and Intensive Interdisciplinary Approaches to

 Contrastive Linguistic Studies

 5.2.4 The Presence of Historical Studies on the Contrastive Linguistics in

 China

 5.3 Novel Contrastive Perspectives and Methodologies and Diversified

 Theoretical and Methodological Approaches

 5.3.1 The Active Pursuit of New Perspectives and Methodologies

 5.3.2 The Popularization of Corpus Linguistic Method

 5.4 The Narrower Focus of Micro-Contrastive Studies

 5.5 Broader and More In-Depth Macro-Contrastive Studies and Micro-Macro

 Combined Approaches

 5.6 Summary

Chapter 6 English-Chinese Contrastive Linguistics in China: Limitations and

 Prospect

 6.1 The Limitations of English-Chinese Contrastive Linguistics in China

 6.1.1 Lack of Both Original Innovation and Schools of Thoughts in Contrastive

 Linguistics in China

 6.1.2 Lack of Academic Contentions and Queries

 6.1.3 Lack of Historical Studies on the Discipline

 6.1.4 Gap Between Domestic and International Corpus-Based Contrastive

 Studies

 6.1.5 Lack of English Semantic Competence and Publication in English

 6.1.6 Dominance of Rationalism and Lack of Human-Centered Philosophy in

 Contrastive Research Among TESOL Practitioners

 6.2 The Prospect of English-Chinese Contrastive Linguistics in China

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Index