Author：Yunhua Deng, Kaifang Deng

Abstract: This paper comprehensively summarizes the research status and hotspots of English borrowings from Chinese based on CiteSpace knowledge graph network, and visualizes the cooperations between authors and institutions respectively, frontier trends of relevant research, so that peopl...

Column：Linguistic Studies   101-113   Details

Author：Yi Peng, Min Zhou

Abstract: Recent studies have explored energy discourses through the lens of cognitive framing. However, analyses of news discourses, particularly from a diachronic perspective, remain limited. Utilizing conceptual metaphor theory and framing theory, we propose a primary news framing model and a diachronic model, bu...

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Author：Yi Sun, Jingying Zhang, Cihang Cui

Abstract: Metaphor is a universal cognitive approach and a fundamental path of human conceptualization. The human body serves as a basis for our understanding of the world, with body-related metaphors permeating the entire process of cognitive construction. The spleen, often considered the “blood bank” of the hum...

Column：Linguistic Studies   128-139   Details

Author：Minzhe Chen, Ying Meng, Yiling Zhang

Abstract: In studies on Focus-on-Form instruction, no consensus has been reached about the effects of the explicit and implicit oral corrective feedback on foreign language grammar teaching and learning. Accordingly, this study examines the effects of metalinguistic and recast oral corrective feedback (MOCF and ROCF) on Chinese high school students’ acquisition of the English passive voice. The results show that both MOCF and ROCF can promote senior high school students’ acquisition of explicit and implicit knowledge of the English passive voice...

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Author：Shouyi Luo

Abstract: Raymond Williams’s criticism on Orwell lasted for 30 years and turned all the more hostile. According to Williams, Orwell and his works were a complex of “paradoxes”: Orwell intended to be committed to the society but constantly felt alienated; he tried to build connection with proletarians but always failed to do so, and these paradoxes were fundamentally related to his “ruling-class” identity and ultimately threw him into despair. Based upon Orwell’s life details and writings, this thesis attempts a critical analysis of “Williams’s Orwell,” revealing Williams’s complex feelings dominated by “anxiety of influence”, refuting all kinds of biases caused by Williams’s class-determined perspective, and aiming for a clarification of the major misunderstandings of Orwell and his works.

Column：Cultural Studies   001-012   Details

Author：Meng Zhang

Abstract: James Joyce’s reading and acceptance of Dante have always been a topic of great concern to Joyce scholars. This article argues that the influence of the Divine Comedy is extremely typical as to form, among other things, the structure, characters and images of Joyce’s short story “Araby.” Provided that in the Divine Comedy, Dante’s “poetics of conversion” is realized through the structure of the “three visions” (the corporeal, the spiritual, and the intellectual); then in Araby there is also an underlying structure of “three visions,” namely the secular life of North Richmond Street, Mangan’s sister and the Araby market....

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Author：Qingyu Wang

Abstract: The widely accepted belief that there was a strong connection between the Essex “rebellion” and William Shakespeare’s Richard II has limited scholars’ interpretation of this play. This research sheds light on how a supposed “historical context” has consistently misled the understanding of the play. The Earl of Essex’s political opponents within the Elizabethan government used John Hayward’s The First Part of the Life and Raigne of King Henrie IIII to implicate Essex in a plot, portraying his group as scheming by staging a performance of Richard II on the day before the “rebellion”. They even intentionally conflated Hayward’s historical ...

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Author：Yang Liu

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to study the spread process and reasons of Zetian characters in Japan. It is believed that Japanese characters are mainly spread through official channels in Japan, and attention should be paid to the political factors behind cultural communication. Except for the word “圀”, the use of Zetian characters in existing official documents and materials is concentrated between the seventh envoy to the Tang Dynasty (702) and the eighth envoy to the Tang Dynasty (717). After that, few official materials were used to use Zetian characters, while people in Nara and Heian periods used Zetian characters more frequently. The use of Zetian characters by Japanese people played down its political meaning and highlighted its beautiful moral side.

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Author：Jue Wang

Abstract: Avancini is one of the representative writers of the Baroque period in Germany, and his representative work is Pietas Victrix. In the play, Avancini chooses Constantine the Great, the first Christian monarch in European history, to portray him as a model of a devout and virtuous Christian monarch. In the history of German literature, this play is one of the representative works of Baroque drama and constitutes an important part of the political discourse of Baroque drama; On the political level, it reflects the creative demands of Avancini to promote faith and express political concepts through dramatic creation.

Column：German Literature Studies   047-055   Details

Author：Yi Xu

Abstract: In 1752, Benjamin Franklin successfully invented the lightning rod, which marked a significant milestone in man’s comprehension and manipulation of nature. From that point, man liberated himself from the fear and anxiety caused by “thunderstorms”, and began to set positive aesthetic value to this weather phenomenon. Following this breakthrough of the history of technology, the German Enlightenment poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock composed the free-rhythm hymn “Frühlingsfeier” with the theme of “thunderstorm” which served as an emblematic work in his oeuvre. This poem, with its pioneering technique from content to form, constitutes the initial affirmative aesthetic portrayal of the “thunderstorm” in the history of German literature with profound impact....

Column：German Literature Studies   056-068   Details