Author：Dongsheng Ren, Mengjia Li

Abstract: The narrative frame theory focusing on the interaction between translation and political conflicts can be applied to evaluate the influence of novel translations reframed by translators on the political and social context. With Mona Baker's narrativity as its theoretical basis, this paper conducts a contrastive text-analysis of Builders of a New Life by Sidney Shapiro and Great Changes in a Mountain Village by Derek Bryan. The result shows that, in applying strategies of label framing, repositioning of participants and selective appropriation of textual materials, Bryan failed to reframe the original narrative with Chinese culture and conflicts in the cooperation movement, while Shapiro succeeded in doing so and even strengthened the socialist features of original narratives, thus making due contributions to the external spread of national narrative and the establishment of a positive national image.

Column：Translation Studies   103-114   Details

Author：Rui Xi

Abstract: As an important way to improve the media image and enhance the status of farmers, news cartoons which are rich in metaphorical meaning can effectively construct and disseminate the image of farmers. Based on the theories of Visual Grammar, Multimodal Metaphor and Multimodal Metonymy, this article tries to conduct a systematic analysis of 45 "farmer" themed cartoons on China News Cartoon Network in the past three years with a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods. The study shows that four kinds of famers' images are constructed in media, namely, the poor who engage in manual labor; benefactors and sufferers who are vulnerable groups; lawbreakers with low cultural qualities; creators and beneficiaries of a better life.

Column：Linguistic Studies   115-125   Details

Author：Fengjuan Cui

Abstract: Based on real online discourses on the Japanese mainstream social media platform Twitter, this study uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze the discourse generators' referential strategies and the empathic and dissociative functions of different referential strategies from a pragmatic perspective, in order to explore the way the Japanese mainstream social media platform constructs the discourse image of "Chinese students." The study finds that the group images of Chinese students constructed by mainstream social media platforms are: those who receive special treatment from the Japanese government; "spies" who violate intellectual property rights; participants in illegal and criminal acts; competitors for employment. In addition, when constructing a positive image of an individual Chinese student, the discourse generators will use the nominalization strategy to achieve the effect of in-grouping,

Column：Linguistic Studies   126-137   Details

Author：Hongqiang Zhu, Minyan Wu

Abstract: English major of higher education in China has currently witnessed a shift from "extensional" to "intensional" development model. In this context, the paper investigates the recognition of English-major teachers' identity in domestic colleges and universities. Findings show that, first, in the context of the transformation of English major' education model, English teachers emphasize the significance of improving the quality of English as a major, constructing the identity of "supporter" in the development of English intensional education model. Second, there is a contradiction between teaching and researching. A majority of English teachers identify themselves as "instructor" instead of "researcher." Third, by showing the need for self-development, the identity of "learner for self-development" is therefore recognized. Moreover, teachers' identity is an interactive relationship formed between teachers and the institutional discourse.

Column：Linguistic Studies   138-149   Details

Author：Wei Ruan, Zhaocheng Gao

Abstract: rofessor Ruan Wei got his doctor’s degree from Edinburgh University,and have published many works both in contemporary English literature,Comparing of Chinese-Western culture and the western Classics. As an important part in western literature as well as in world literature,the 20th century British literature are read and studied by students both from Chinese department and English department in China. In this interview, Doctor Gao Zhaocheng talked five contemporary British writers with professor Ruan Wei.

Column：Lushan Talks   150-156   Details

Author：Wen Pan

Abstract: There is a divergence of interpretation since the second wave of the western feminism: the divergence between “the racial discourse” and “the gender discourse”. Comparing the interpretations made by bell hooks and Judith Butler to the same literary texts, we can see vividly this divergence. In deeper analysis, this is the divergence between “the social politics” and “the personal politics”. Before the 2008 economic crisis, “the personal” has always overshadowed “the social”. However, the more “personal” side of interpretation has gradually shown two main problems: west-centrism and banality and discursive exhaustion. Today such a divergence still exists, though in somewhat different discourses.

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   001-013   Details

Author：Jue Wang

Abstract: The trial and execution of the king of England, Charles I, by the Independents led by Oliver Cromwell, is considered to be one of the most stunning events in the European history of the 17th century. The German dramatist Andreas Gryphius wrote the tragedyCarolus Stuardus, based on this regicidal event. In this tragedy, Charles was shaped as Christ-like figure, which made an analogy between Charles’s martyrdom and Jesus’ crucifixion. Moreover, Gryphius created Charles as a virtures monarch and Cromwell as morally despicable tyrant in this martyr drama. As matter of fact, Gryphius’ concept of monarchial power was fully demonstrated in his depiction of the monarch.

Column：Literature anc Culture Studies   014-023   Details

Author：Xueying Zhou

Abstract: Diverging from traditional interpretations, the Decadents fashioned the image of the Mona Lisa in a modern light. Following Gautier's discovery of Satanism in Mona Lisa's smile, Pater not only fashioned her as sinister, but also proposed to see her as a representative of Decadents. Wilde, as well ...

Column：British Literature Studies   024-035   Details

Author：Xiuli Zhang

Abstract: In English plague literature, human sentiments and frames of mind are represented by either moral preaching or by jubilation and wine. On the one hand, plague was a metaphor for moral corruption in order to persuade people to behave well, while on the other it offers a picture of moral collapse in wine and pleasure. The apparent conflict between the moral preaching and sensual revelry in the plague literature actually points to the underlying anxiety of the mass. The balance of the two indicates the effort to confront collective anxiety with laughter.

Column：British Literature Studies   036-045   Details

Author：Meiqun Wu

Abstract: The fashioning of state imagery was inseparable from scholars’ literary imagination and discourse construction in early modern England. Ben Jonson, one of the most famous playwrights in the English Renaissance, actively takes part in the fashioning of English state imagery and national consciousness imaginatively portrayed in...

Column：British Literature Studies   046-054   Details