Author：Xu Zhang

Abstract: The educational system is a strong guarantee for the smooth advancement of modern scholarship. It is also true in the domain of modern translation. From the perspective of modern patronage theory, one of the prerequisites for the advancement of translation is a sufficient quantity of ...

Column：Translation Studies   092-103   Details

Author：Hongjun Lan

Abstract: Since 1987, when the first national symposium on theoretical translation studies was held, translation studies in China has come into a new era. This paper, based on a survey of the academic books published in China in the past 30 years, describes the research status of contemporary literary translation studies, and makes...

Column：Translation Studies   104-117   Details

Author：Guangang Dun

Abstract: In the late 20th century, Gideon Toury invested erudite attempts in how to describe translation which is taken as a focal point and pivot of descriptive translation studies. Starting from the general conception about descriptive translation studies envisioned by Holmes, combined with his own rich practice in translation desc...

Column：Translation Studies   118-127   Details

Author：Qiuhong Xing

Abstract: The tense construction “N1有（yǒu） V过（guò） N2” has been the variant of “有XP” construction and shares the features of grammatical construction and rhetorical construction. There are four features which can verify the pragma-rhetoricality of the construction “N1有（yǒu） V过（guò） N2”:...

Column：Linguistic Studies   128-135   Details

Author：Xiao Liu, Chao Shi

Abstract: Metaphor is not only a form of rhetoric, but also an art of persuasion. This essay focuses on the “road” metaphor in Xi Jinping’s keynote speech at the opening ceremony of The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, and finds that the metaphor of “road” is not only pervasive, but also becomes the macro structure of the whole speech with rich embodiments and connotations. Xi Jinping uses “road” and its related metaphors to persuade people effectively with character, emotion, and reasoning. He vividly demonstrates the historical background and realistic achievements of the Belt and Road Initiative, and calls on the participating countries to take a firm step towards better development.

Column：Linguistic Studies   136-146   Details

Author：Jianquan Feng, Shaojun Ding

Abstract: 9•11 terrorist attacks mark the re-emergence of counter-terrorism, and re-emphasis on its study in critical discourse studies. Most of the existing studies discuss the social, cultural and political contexts of legitimation, and the strategies employed. Framed by the Discou...

Column：Linguistic Studies   147-156   Details

Author：Jon Woodson

Abstract: The African-American poetry of the 1930s represents a far different picture than has been chronicled. The tremendous energy that has gone into the construction of what is now institutionalized as the Harlem Renaissance has cast a deep shadow over the decade of the thirties—in effect subsuming the period of the Great ...

Column：African American Literature Studies   001-017   Details

Author：Yukuo Wang

Abstract: This interview with Professor Jerry Ward, a respected scholar of African American literature and culture, concerns issues of race, gender, and the so-called “post-racial.” The conversation presents Professor Ward’s ideas about developments and changes in African American fiction, drama, poetry, and literary criticism. It briefly outlines his views on the study of the 20th century African American literature and culture, and a vision of the future.

Column：African American Literature Studies   018-027   Details

Author：Chenghui Wang

Abstract: In his works, H. L. Mencken expresses his ideas concerning such issues as education, media, democracy, politics, the President, religion, the South, Negroes, Jews, women, subjecting him to controversy both in his lifetime and after his death. People tend to pay attention to Mencken’s explicit controversial ideas while ig...

Column：20th-Century American Literary Thoughts   038-046   Details

Author：Bai Liu

Abstract: Irving Babbitt is the founder of the American New Humanism Movement in the early 20th century. He advocated the spirit of criticism and positivism, and provided a counterpoint to Romantic literature since the Western Renaissance. He promoted classical literature, and emphasized the combination of rationality and imagination, and morality an...

Column：20th-Century American Literary Thoughts   047-055   Details