Author：Xiaojin Chen, Dongchun Chen

Abstract: This study makes a comparative analysis of the construction of interpersonal meanings in the relations between man and nature represented in the oversea comic versions of the Analects of Confucius. It explores whether and to what extent Confucius’ thought of “unity of man and nature” is represented. The result shows that this thought in Tsai Chih Chung’s version is better represented. However, it is suggested both of the versions interact with readers in more visual angles and use colorful pictures in order to activate the ambience system. Finally, this study offers recommendations for improvements in the representation and spread of this thought, making a modest contribution to Chinese and Western cooperation in the endeavor for harmony between man and nature. It explores the new theoretical framework which is different from the traditional visual grammar.

Column：Translation Studies   101-111   Details

Author：Zhuo Peng

Abstract: Epistemics is a hot theory used in the current western conversation analysis, but conversation analysts seldom carry out comprehensive and systematic analysis of advice elicitation from the perspective of epistemics. This study gives a comprehensive epistemic interpretation of advice elicitation on Chinese phone-ins of marital contradiction by means of conversation analysis, and reveals the types of epistemic status relation positioning embodied in advice elicitation and the epistemic stances for and the essence of these types of positioning. It is found that the advice elicitation reflects two types of epistemic status relation positioning implemented by callers and hosts respectively, that the two types of positioning can be displayed by five kinds of epistemic stances, ...

Column：Linguistic Studies   112-123   Details

Author：Guangrong Liao, Mei Yi

Abstract: Image is often involved in language use, however, the language image is not easy to generate, comprehend and appreciate. A further linguistic study on the Chinese image helps to their generation, comprehension, appreciation, application, and utterance innovation. This article, under the guidance of Concept Frame, C...

Column：Linguistic Studies   134-143   Details

Author：Guanqiao Wang, Qianbo Li

Abstract: The functional grammar proposed by Halliday put forward the concept of metafunction which is categorized into ideational function, interpersonal function and textual function. Transitivity, as a semantic system, divides human experience into different processes which proves the experiential function of the language. This paper, which adopts t...

Column：Linguistic Studies   144-156   Details

Author：Wei Ruan

Abstract: Roughly beginning in the first century, major civilizations started to expand beyond their places of birth. When settling down in a new land, people are committed to a specific religion and related institutions and customs. This can be described as “civilizational propagation.” In fact, this phenomenon can be seen as a kind of early regional globa...

Column：Culture Studies   001-009   Details

Author：Yu Liu

Abstract: When the novel represents an event, its aim is to represent aesthetic concepts with historical responsibility rather than the historical truth or the event per se. In the novel, the representation of the event is, very often, permeated with historical facts with the help of novel forms. This article attempts to define the trauma novel as a...

Column：Culture Studies   010-019   Details

Author：Wenyu Xie

Abstract: In the mid 1960s, the Hollywood, known as a dreaming factory, began to favor the baby boom generation born after World WarⅡand produced a number of well-known movies reflecting American youth culture in 1960s. Keen enough to capture the increasingly aggressive and combative mood among American youth, Bonnie and Clyde focused on...

Column：Culture Studies   020-030   Details

Author：Wenhui Si

Abstract: This paper studies the literary thought of Roland Barthes from the semiotic perspective and finds it mainly consists of his views about “writing” “narration” “text” and “author” and changes from the earlier structuralist studies to the later post-structuralism ones. Through the in-depth study of the academic relationships between his literary thought and his semiotic studies, this paper aims to reveal the semiotic characteristics of Barthes’s literary thought and discover its path of development.

Column：Culture Studies   031-037   Details

Author：Xiu Yan

Abstract: Nostalgia is one of the universal sensibilities. Both the Japanese poets of Man'yōshū and the Chinese poets of the Tang Dynasty created nostalgic poems rich with images. The former focus on natural landscape, meteorological phenomena, animals and plants; the latter pre...

Column：Culture Studies   038-047   Details

Author：Shidan Chen

Abstract: The essay uses the Sphinx Factor in the theories of ethical literary criticism to explain the literary phenomena represented in Welcome to Hard Times （1960）, an allegorical novel by E. L. Doctorow, the American contemporary novelist. Analyzing this postmodernist novel reveals the essence of human beings in whom good and evil coexist a...

Column：British and American Literature Studies   048-056   Details