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- On the English Translation of "di"(帝) in Shijing with Reference to Four English Versions of Shijing
Author：Xiaolong Wu
Abstract: “Di” (帝) is an important character with religious color in Shijing, loaded with the primitive religious culture of the ancient Chinese society. This paper aims to study the English translation of “di” (帝) with reference to the statistical analysis of its translations in f...
Column：Translation Studies 094-102 Details
- A Study of "Emotive Intensifier + X" Construction
Author：Fen Liu
Abstract: Previous studies mainly focus on the “Degree Adverb + X” construction, and they seldom pay attention to “Emotive Intensifier + X” construction. Under the framework of Construction Grammar, by exploring the construction representation and its different forms and meanings of the structure of “Emotive Intensifier + X”, and ...
Column：Liguistic Studies 103-112 Details
- The Depth of Cognitive Processing of Metonymy within a Cognitive-pragmatic Perspective
Author：Zhenqiang Fan
Abstract: The depth of metonymic processing is a newly-emerged key issue in cognitive metonymy studies. A multi-level conceptual analysis reveals that metonymy operates within a matrix domain or metonymic complex, which includes four hierarchical levels: image-schema, domain, frame and mental space. On ...
Column：Liguistic Studies 113-129 Details
- CET Washback Effects on the Achievement Test of College English: A Study Based on the Analysis of the Finals of Ten Universities and Teacher Interviews
Author：Lianzhong Dong
Abstract: This study investigates the washback effects of CET on the achievement test of college English, and it employs the end-term exams of 10 colleges or universities in Beijing and interviews of college English directors and lecturers. The results of the study demonstrate that the end-term exams of most colleges or universities do not include oral English test, but simply copy the CET in aspects of its test contents, question types, and the score weight; the end-term exams of key universities, however, are less impacted by using a variety of subjective question types to examine students’ comprehensive English competence; and the causes resulting in the above distinctions can be partly attributed to the lack of language assessment literacy of college English directors and teachers. Hence, a number of measures, such as accelerating the end-term exam reform, introducing the oral English test and increasing its score weight in the end-term exam,
Column：Liguistic Studies 130-138 Details
- Portuguese Linguistic Colonisation and Language Policy: Brazil and Mozambique, between Diversity, Inequality and Differences
Author：Bethania Mariani
Abstract: This article aims to discuss conceptually the distinctions between diversity, inequality and difference in relation to the Portuguese language of two nations that underwent processes of linguistic colonisation. To do so, it intends to present shifts in the meaning of the Portuguese language during the colonisation process and the post-independence process in Brazil and Mozambique.
Column：Brazilian Literature and Culture Studies 003-013 Details
- The Museum Brazil: Cultural Cannibalism as an Answer to the Predicaments of a Shakespearean Culture
Author：João Cezar de Castro Rocha
Abstract: Shakespearean cultures are the ones whose self-definition heavily relies on the determination of a foreigner’s gaze. Their self-perception originates in the gaze of an Other. Thus, in such circumstance, the centrality of the other demands the prominence of the mimetic impulse in the shaping of national identity, which cannot but evoke a paradoxical constellation, based upon a constant oscillation between the own and the foreigner. For a start, Latin American cultures emerged in the shadow of the Other, an (almost) absolute model.
Column：Brazilian Literature and Culture Studies 014-024 Details
- The "Cordial Man": A Latin American Concept in the Brazilian Essay
Author：Pedro Meira Monteiro
Abstract: This article analyzes Sérgio Buarque de Holanda’s Roots of Brazil, a seminal book in the Brazilian essayist tradition. Discussion begins with the limits of Brazil’s search for national specificity, so as to consider Brazilian cultural formation as a projection of its colonial Iberian roots. In this context, t...
Column：Brazilian Literature and Culture Studies 025-034 Details
- Brazilian Literary Criticism and Historiography
Author：Roberto Acízelo de Souza, José Luís Jobim
Abstract: In Brazil literary studies, after scant manifestations in the colonial period, represented by the activity of literary academies founded in the 18th century only really expanded in the course of the 19th century. National literary production grew in quantity and quality, as did literary studies, which, on the one hand, were demande...
Column：Brazilian Literature and Culture Studies 035-042 Details
- Brazilian Contemporary Poetry: An Overview
Author：Viviana Bosi
Abstract: Although it may seem an impossible task to offer a panorama of contemporary Brazilian poetry, we will discuss a selection of poets who possibly epitomize the most significant current trends. We start with a brief presentation of four well-regarded authors whose works represent major poetic currents: Augusto de Campos, Francisco Alvim, A...
Column：Brazilian Literature and Culture Studies 043-060 Details
- Omnivorous Fiction: Brazilian Novel of the Now
Author：Miguel Sanches Neto
Abstract: In a peripheral tradition, marked by a tradition of aesthetic delays, the novel production in Brazil uses the concept of appropriation, not of codes of great specific authors. It uses elements from several narrative genres, undoing the limits among them. Such practice gives the contemporary Brazilian novel a status of synthesis of t...
Column：Brazilian Literature and Culture Studies 061-073 Details