Author：Yingliang Liu, Fengshuang Du, Yuyu Pei

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

Column：Linguistic Studies   122-134   Details

Author：Yaying Luo, Chan Chen

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

Column：Linguistic Studies   135-145   Details

Author：Huali Li

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.

Column：Linguistic Studies   146-156   Details

Author：Zhao Yifan

Abstract: British saw the first Industrial Revolution, set up the first Modern State, and thus became the British Empire on what the sun never set. How could all these happen on that little Island? Please read and think.

Column：China and the US by ZHAO Yifan   001-011   Details

Author：Chengfa Yu, Yuanyuan Duan

Abstract: The axis of complete translation is transformation, whose quintessence is in sublimation. In terms of connotation, sublimation, as the intrinsic nature of complete translation, shares interrelated and mutually denotative meanings with the Chinese word “化” in philology, philosophy and aesthetics. In terms of denotation, sublimation ref...

Column："Dao" of Translation   012-021   Details

Author：Wei Guo, Yuchun Xu

Abstract: Division and combination are the laws of the existence and development of the world. They are the unity of opposites and complementarities, whose interrelationship can be used to guide the translation process, balancing the form-meaning relationship between the source language and the target language despite their differences in philosophy, thinking patterns and syntactic structures. Through the proper application of division and combination, two of the seven methods in complete translation, it is more likely for translators to produce idiomatic translations with deverbalization. As applied writing, Chinese political documents are characterized by Chinese syntactic structure. This paper probes into division and combination in theoretical b

Column："Dao" of Translation   022-031   Details

Author：Minyue Shi, Yue Zeng

Abstract: Heinrich von Kleist’s The Prince of Homburg was created in the context of the Napoleonic Wars. The military revolution in the early 19th century and the writer’s military knowledge constituted important elements in the construction of the play. By rewriting the Battle of Fehrbellin of 1675, Kleist interprets the conflict between the Prussian military tradition and the military principles of the Napoleonic era, thereby expressing the changes in the military culture of the era in a dramatic form. His text reflects the Prussian military reforms. The intertextual relationship between the text of The Prince of Homburg and the contemporary developments in military theory and military technology testifies to Kleist’s concern with military issues and the connection between his literary creation in the last years of his life and the Prussian military reforms.

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   032-044   Details

Author：Long Guo, Lingying Wu

Abstract: The Faerie Queene, written by Edmund Spenser, represents history of England and constructs the historical, geographical, and religious identity of the English nation through three forms of historical writing: chronicle, chorography, and epic prophecy, making it the national epic of England. The historical writing in The Faerie Queene not only reflects interactions between history and poetry, which provides medium for the construction of English national identity in this epic, but also affirms the key role of historical and cultural memory in strengthening national identity and in highlighting the unique Englishness embedded in the English national identity.

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   045-056   Details

Author：Fang Liu

Abstract: As a daring endeavor taken by Harriet Martineau in the fiction realm, Deerbrook reveals the important role of medicine within community in the early Victorian age. Previous studies have focused either on the moral character of the doctor and its function in maintaining the order of the community, or the medical discourse and its discipline’s impact on individual patients. Few, nonetheless, have been interested in the relationship between medicine and community. Focusing on the health of the community, this paper first attempts to illustrate the significance of the doctor and his medical discourse in shaping social health in the early Victorian age, meanwhile presenting Martineau’s reference to ...

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   057-067   Details

Author：Yihua Chen

Abstract: In E. M. Forster’s masterpiece A Room with a View, the three key elements of music, space, and character form three circular structures. These three circular structures achieve the effect of easy rhythm within themselves by “repetition with variation” and present the effect of intricate rhythm in an interlocking layout. With the he...

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   068-077   Details