- Advanced Level of College English - Topic: Intuition of Chinese vs Logical English - Exploration of Chinese language and culture intuition - Exploration of English language and culture logic - Role of thought patterns in language development - Chinese holistic thinking vs English analytical thinking - Chinese imaginal thinking vs English abstract thinking - Subject thinking in Chinese vs Object thinking in English - Study on interpretations of social behavior - Cai Ping Pong and Michael Morris research - Cartoons of fish used for social interactions - American subjects attribute behavior to individual choice - Chinese and Japanese subjects explain behavior through group dynamics - Holistic vs Analytical Thinking - Chinese value harmonious and interdependent organization - Westerners stress individuality - Language structural differences - English architectural style - Reliance on transitional words for coherence - Logical relationships clarified by phrases - Chinese bamboo style - Organic whole with hidden logic - Short and composite structures - Examples at syntactic and textual levels - Chinese uses fewer transitional words - English integrates ideas with stronger logic - Imaginal vs Abstract Thinking - Chinese intuitive perception through analogy and association - English abstract thinking based on logic - Lexical examples - Use of verb phrases and image descriptions in Chinese - Frequent use of abstract nouns in English - Subject vs Object Thinking - Interaction between man and nature - Chinese harmony and unification of subject and object - English contradiction between subject and object - Heavy use of inanimate subjects in English - Personal nouns as subjects in Chinese - Additional differences between Chinese and English - English inflectional language features - Chinese lacks inflectional changes - English uses substitutive words, Chinese uses repetitive words - Further research questions - Explore more differences between Chinese and English - Explain differences from the perspective of intuitive Chinese vs logical English