外国语言与文化

American Magic: From Brilliance to Darkness

Zhao Yifan    001-012

Column：China and the US by ZHAO Yifan

Abstract：Johan Galtung, a Norwegian writer published in 2008 a book entitled The Fall of the US Empire. This book declares the USA enjoys its “magic” Power, just as the Roman Empire did before. But the US Empire is bound to collapse, so long as its “magic” Power is gone, as the Roman history tells us. Professor Galtung’s prediction about ...

Gender Politics and Post-colonial Writing in Annamarie Jagose’s Slow Water

Min Tan    

Column：Contemporary New Zealand Literature Studies

Abstract：Annamarie Jagose’s novel Slow Water is a neo-Victorian novel based on the colonial history of the British Empire in New Zealand. As a modern novelist, Jagose presents and reconstructs an eclipsed historical event which happened in Victorian age, revealing how the British Empire applied gender politics t...

The Overseas Literary Representation of Bougainville Civil War: On Cultural Identity Construction in New Zealand Novel Mister Pip

Luechang Liu, Le Wu    023-033

Column：Contemporary New Zealand Literature Studies

Abstract：Due to the intervention of multiple external forces, the Bougainville Civil War in Papua New Guinea has evolved into a regional issue. New Zealand contemporary novelist Lloyd Jones provides a representation of the civil war in Mister Pip, revealing the cultural identity construction of different communities in Melanesia. From the perspective of cultural identity as proposed by Stuart Hall, this paper argues that Mr. Watts who represents the immigrants on Bougainville Island, Dolores and her daughter on behalf of two generations of aborigines, construct their own cultural identities through grafting British culture, protecting native culture and blending the two cultures together. To some extent, Mister Pip metaphorizes the cultural trajecto

Ineffable Desire: On Ethical Anxiety in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Yanwen Guo    034-043

Column：Literature and Culture Studies

Abstract：“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” shows the complicated psychological process of courtship. However, the unidentified woman in the poem possibly lacks the reality of presence, while Prufrock obviously shows his sexual desire for women. Yet facing with the ethical dilemma, the poet Eliot skillfu...

A Review of “the Naipaul Fallacy”: Post-colonial Writing in A Bend in the River

Yuchen Hua    044-053

Column：Literature and Culture Studies

Abstract：A Bend in the River, as a post-colonial literary canon, epitomizes the literary controversy of “the Naipaul Fallacy.” The main narrator Salim has “double vision” in the sense of Homi Bhabha, through whose perspective the dual desires of colonial empire and nation state are presented objectively...

From “Black/White” to Cosmopolitanism: A Study of Limits in Jessie Fauset’s Plum Bun

Dingying Wang    054-064

Column：Literature and Culture Studies

Abstract：Jessie Fauset, an important guide to the Harlem Renaissance, should have been a landmark in the history of African-American literature, but has been overlooked long due to her sentimental Victorian style. Based on Angela’s experience of transgression, this article will analyze the multiple l...

On Wu Mi’s Acceptance of Irving Babbitt’s Literary Thought

Zhengqi Liu    065-075

Column：Literature and Culture Studies

Abstract：Influenced by Babbitt’s literary thought, Wu Mi believes that “literature is the representation of life” and his literary creation and criticism are based on and oriented by his concern for human beings and his reflections on human nature. Wu’s acceptance of Babbitt’s literary thought covers mainly three aspects: ...

Western Knowledge, Chinese Classics,Textbooks, and Terminology: A Study of the Activities and Good Practices of National Institute for Compilation and Translation in the Republic of China

Hanxi Zhu, Quangong Feng    076-087

Column：Translation Studies

Abstract：National Institute for Compilation and Translation (NICT), as the highest government-run translation institute during the period of the Nanking National Government, exerted a strong political and cultural influence on the society of the Republic of China. This paper analyzes the practices and achievements of NICT in unifying academic terms, translating western books, editing and reviewing textbooks, as well as compiling and translating Chinese classics. Good practices carried out by NICT are summarized as follows: 1) the institutionalized translation and compilation practice meets the needs of national governance; 2) the intensive intellectual assembly fully integrates domestic cultural resources; 3) the integration of compilation, translation and review helps share and relay its achievements; 4) the balance between absorbing western knowled ...

National Translation Research Capacity: Concept and Indicator System Construction

Weinan Pi, Chunmei Lai, Hongjun Lan    088-098

Column：Translation Studies

Abstract：National translation research capacity, as a component of national translation capacity, is significant to the construction of the conceptual system of national translation capacity. National translation research capacity refers to the ability of a country’s research team to discover, analyze and ...

Research on the Practice Approaches of Integrating Moral Education through ESP: Taking “Business English Reading” as a Sample

Hong Zhou, Qiaoqiao Lu    099-109

Column：Ethical Curriculum Studies

Abstract：As a part of College English, it is significantly practical for ESP to integrate moral education. Taking “Business English Reading” as a sample, this paper discusses the practice approaches of the integration of moral education with ESP, which is based on the four aspects: teaching objectives, teaching content, teaching methods and teaching assessment and from the five ideological-political dimensions: political identity, national identity, cultural cultivation, professional knowledge and moral qualities, around the issues of “Why shall this be taught?” “What shall be taught?” “Who shall teach?” “Whom shall be taught?” “How shall we teach?” In the discussion of teaching methods, this paper employs professor Wen Qiufang’s POA (Production-Oriented Approach) to explore the practice path.

A Multifactorial Analysis of Dative Alternation Based on Corpus-based Probabilistic Models: An Example of “Send”

Yongxue Yuan, Jianxue Li    110-121

Column：Linguistic Studies

Abstract：This study is a multifactorial analysis to explore the factors influencing the use of send-type dative alternation. Corpus-based probabilistic models are established after extracting and annotating the corpus data in semantic, pragmatic and syntactic aspects. The results show that in spoken English, significant factors influencing the use of send-type dative alternation include pronominality of recipient, pronominality of theme, animacy of recipient, definiteness of theme and definiteness of recipient. There are interactions among three factors, i.e., pronominality, animacy and definiteness. The relative importance of the predictors is ranked as: pronominality of recipient > length difference > animacy of recipient > pronominality of theme > definit

A Study of Reporting Features of Evaluative-that Clauses in MA Thesis Abstracts by Chinese EFL Learners

Yingliang Liu, Fengshuang Du, Yuyu Pei    122-134

Column：Linguistic Studies

Abstract：This paper examines the reporting features of evaluative-that clauses by comparing the abstracts of MA theses by Chinese EFL learners and international journal articles. It was found that Chinese EFL learners and experts tended to use abstract subjects as well as the combination of abstract subjects and research verbs in order to reduce author’s voice and increase the objectivity of the discourse. Compared with experts, Chinese EFL learners rarely used the combination of abstract subjects and discourse verbs along with negative reporting verbs. In addition, Chinese EFL learners overused the combination of concealed subjects and research verbs, as well as positive reporting verbs in the master’s theses. Learners sometimes misused reporting verbs with different evaluations, which reveals that learners as novices lack the awareness and ability to us

A Corpus-based Study on the Extended Unit of Meaning of the Verb “Keep” in COCA

Yaying Luo, Chan Chen    135-145

Column：Linguistic Studies

Abstract：In the boom of second language acquisition, language learning not only focuses on morphology and syntax, but also on the context of the language and its overall meaning. Therefore, with the help of COCA, this study takes the verb “keep” as the node word to analyze the extended unit of meaning, and the features of collocation, colligation, semantic preference and semantic prosody in the context. The study finds that “keep” can be connected with adjectives, adverbs, nouns, and prepositions, thus forming a very rich syntactic structure. In addition, when the word is matched with the adjective, the collocation reflects the positive semantic tendency, and the context reflects the positive semantic prosody of “keep.” In addition, its collocatio

A Cognitive Study of Calligraphic Concepts “Fei” (fat) and “Shou” (thin) and Their Meaning Construction

Huali Li    146-156

Column：Linguistic Studies

Abstract：“Fei” (fat) and “shou” (thin) are commonly used to describe a person’s appearance, but in calligraphic texts, these two concepts turn out to be the most frequent and typical. This study shows that, as calligraphic concepts, “fei” and “shou” generally refer to the thickness and strength of strokes, the size and the spacing of Chinese characters, neither with emotional tendency. The calligraphic concept “fei” appears later than “shou”. Based on cognitive experiences as well as encyclopedic knowledge mapped by metaphor and metonymy, “fei” and “shou” obtain their respective basic meanings, which are further constructed on-line through association and analogy according to their calligraphic contexts.