Author：Shuangshuang Chen

Abstract: Paratext is an indispensable part of the text, which provides a new perspective regarding the study on translation works. By employing the theory of paratext put forward by Gerard Genette, this paper examines the differences of paratexts between the Chinese version and English version of two volumes of Xi Jinping: Governance of China. It is concluded that the translation of paratexts is closely linked to the content of the main text and the target readership is taken into consideration. Thus, flexibility is reflected due to the addition or reduction or adjustment during the translation process.

Column：Translation Studies   108-115   Details

Author：Hong Liu

Abstract: As a series of startling reflections on fundamental issues of translation, the book The Conference of tongues adopts an interdisciplinary study that brings concepts and ideas from social system theory, literary theory, international law and even theology to explore translation. It throws new light on familia...

Column：Translation Studies   116-125   Details

Author：Chen Cai

Abstract: By taking 124 second-year non-English majors as participants, this study attempts to explore through a test and a questionaire the effects of creativity and English proficiency on their ability to interpret multimodal metaphors in English advertisements. The results are as follows: 1) Creativity and English proficiency are positively related to multi-modal metaphorical interpretation ability; 2) Learners’ creativity and English proficiency interact with each other on multi-modal metaphorical interpretation ability. Among the groups with good English proficiency, the multi-modal metaphorical interpretation ability of the high creativity learners is better than that of the low creativity learners. The results show that the learners’ creativity and English proficiency can significantly predict their multi-modal metaphorical interpretation ability, and the dominant effect of creativity is based on English proficiency.

Column：Linguistic Studies   126-136   Details

Author：Chunyan Jia

Abstract: The security dimension of language planning is one of the major topics in the contemporary study of language planning and language policy. In order to fulfill the effects and values for language planning, it should be strengthened the study on language planning in the Xinjiang. The paper draws on two dimensions that are the current foreign languages capacities of Xinjiang higher education and an extensive survey of foreign languages demand of Xinjiang.

Column：Linguistic Studies   137-145   Details

Author：Haoyu Bian

Abstract: In 1826, The English and Chinese Students Assistant, or Colloquial Phrases, Letters & c, in English and Chinese was published in Malacca. The author was a student from the Anglo-Chinese College at Malacca, whose name was SHAOU TĬH. As far as the current data is concerned, the book was the first English textbook compiled by a Chinese in modern Chinese history. The professionalism, practicability and pertinency reflected in the textbook, not only exerted positive influence on English learning and teaching in the Anglo-Chinese College at Malacca at that time, but also is of great historical significance to present compilation of English textbooks.

Column：Linguistic Studies   146-154   Details

Author：Bo Cao

Abstract: After examining the definitions of “British literature” and “Irish literature,” this paper claims that the differences between the definitions by British intellectuals and those by Irish critics result from their political or cultural? grounds, and that behind their controversy were struggles of discourse power and combat betwee...

Column：Irish Literature Studies   001-009   Details

Author：Li Chen

Abstract: With its ongoing richness, contemporary Irish literature deserves more critical attention. This article focuses on the trend of modern adaptations by Irish writers of classic texts, using it to showcase the basic features and prosperity of contemporary Irish literature, and exploring possible reasons for the exi...

Column：Irish Literature Studies   010-017   Details

Author：Luchen Wang

Abstract: Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture is based on the traumatic memory of Rosanne McNulty, a centenarian woman who has been incarcerated in a lunatic asylum for most of her lifetime, delivering the vicissitudes of the century-long history of Ireland with a lyric and elegiac tone. The exclusion of Protestants, discri...

Column：Irish Literature Studies   018-029   Details

Author：Chengjian Li, Hongcan Deng

Abstract: Bernard Shaw is widely recognized as an English playwright. His“problem plays” explored the unpleasant social realities of England. This has led critics to overlook Shaw’s Irish identity and his Irish complex. By analyzing the Irish characters portrayed in John Bull’s Other Island, and the other two play...

Column：Irish Literature Studies   030-038   Details

Author：Lu Lu

Abstract: In Shakespeare's The Tempest, written in the late Renaissance, the barbarous and rude Caliban and the intelligent but obedient Ariel form a set of oppositional slave images. By treating them as archetypes of the colonized, the present paper aims to analyze “the royal slave” Oroonoko in Aphra Behn’s Restoration work and Friday in Defoe’s early eighteenth-century novel. The paper finds that Oroonoko paradoxically unifies the characteristics of Caliban and Ariel, embodying the transitional and ambiguous nature of the colonial issues in the Restoration period, while in Defoe’s work, Friday, as a savage Caliban, is portrayed or constructed as the submissive Ariel...

Column：Literature Studies   039-047   Details