Author：Huiqun Li, Yongmin Xia

Abstract: This article uses two telephone interviews with the Turkish people in 2016 and 2019 by China Radio International as samples to analyze the Turkish people's perception of the Chinese national image. The study found that the Turkish people's cognitive data about China has been on the rise in recent years, but China is still a distant country in their minds. The Turkish media's China reportage shows obvious ideological prejudice, which affects the Turkish people's perception of China. In response to the current situation, China Radio International promotes some strategies to play a role in the communication of the Chinese national image.

Column：Translation and International Communication Studies   103-115   Details

Author：Weirong Li, Ziyun Guo

Abstract: The relationship between translation and international communication is similar to a symbiotic relationship, and the ultimate goal of translation is to communicate with the people outside of China. Translation plays a very important role in deciding whether communication is effective or not. In order...

Column：Translation and International Communication Studies   116-124   Details

Author：Yin Wang

Abstract: Postmodernist philosophy, has undergone three major periods: humanism and criticism, deconstruction, and constructionism and embodied-cognitivity. Dr. Wang Zhihe regards the third period as the second Enlightenment, which offers a new way for the research of philosophical history. To our mind, postmodernism has appeared not only in literature, culture and philosophy, but also in linguistics. Systemic Functional and Cognitive Linguistics has broken away from the bondage of modernist mechanical theory, and has many features of organic linguistics, but lacks the conscious perspective of philosophical theory for the probe of the organic relationship between linguistics and philosophy. In contrast, Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics (ECL for short), based on the second Enlightenment and Embodied-Cognitive Philosophy, has probed this organic relationship...

Column：Embodied Cognitive Linguistics Studies   125-133   Details

Author：Zhiyi Zhang,Shuxian Zhang

Abstract: The long-distance reflexives in Chinese pose challenges to traditional GT and pragmatic explanation in the light of explanatory adequacy. Under the guidance of ECL, the typological linguistic analysis of 16 Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan languages given by the present study generalizes the semantic and syntactic features of reflexives. From the ECL perspective, the long-distance bound reflexives are the results of interactions among the economy and principles of language and the clarity of cognition. The barrier effect of the long-distance bound simple reflexive ziji can be best explained by cognitive person prominence and optimization principle of interations between language and cognition. The possessive reflexive is essentially long-distance bound reflexive and the concerning phenomenon can be best explained by the headedness principle and cognitive animacy effects. ..

Column：Embodied Cognitive Linguistics Studies   134-144   Details

Author：Yi Sun, Cihang Cui

Abstract: Wang Yin's proposition of Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics is a localization architecture on the basis of embodied philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics, its kernel principle being "embodied cognition." With the profile of embodied-cognitive humanism in this field, this paper is an attempt at a cross-linguistic study concerning foot metaphors based upon the conceptual nature of metaphor and theoretical construction of contemporary metaphorology. A large abundance of mapping types as well as image categories of foot metaphors have been concluded and organised. The similarity and differences between foot metaphors in Chinese and English are also analyzed in depth through with a dual-dimensional theoretical paradigm: embodied cognition from Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics in conjunction with cultural entailments within the scope of contemporary metaphorology. Taken together,

Column：Embodied Cognitive Linguistics Studies   145-156   Details

Author：Ottmar Ette

Abstract: This article is an introduction to this Humboldt research column. It is intended to briefly explain the long life and great works of Alexander von Humboldt. It not only lays out the educational background, mental state and scientific research activities of the Prussian naturalist and cultural...

Column：Alexander von Humboldt Studies   001-006   Details

Author：Ulrich Päßler

Abstract: The “Naturgemälde der Anden” (Physical Tableau of the Andes) offers a visual representation of Alexander von Humboldt’s view of nature as an interconnected whole. Humboldt published this graphic in 1807 as part of his “Essay on the Geography of Plants,” which focused on finding...

Column：Alexander von Humboldt Studies   007-017   Details

Author：Vera M. Kutzinski

Abstract: This article focuses on the visual qualities of Alexander von Humboldt's statistical tables in his Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, with special focus on how they relate to narrative writing. I argue that Humboldt's tables open up spaces inside his narration which fragment the reader's visual field in order to invite unexpected conversations, connections, and ideas—what I call off-road adventures.

Column：Alexander von Humboldt Studies   018-030   Details

Author：Markus A. Lenz

Abstract: Alexander von Humboldt, as a scientist and diplomatically mediating chamberlain to the Prussian king, played a bridging role between France and Prussia. He can hardly be claimed by one single national literary "tradition," yet his close ties to France, especially to Paris, his place of residence and wor...

Column：Alexander von Humboldt Studies   031-040   Details

Author：Tobias Kraft, Florian Schnee

Abstract: The expedition through Central Asia in 1829 marked a turning point in the life of the Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt. At the border post Baty, he came into contact with Chinese culture for the first time. From there he brought a copy of The Records of the Three Kingdoms to Berlin...

Column：Alexander von Humboldt Studies   041-050   Details