Author：Quangong Feng, Xiaonan Chen

Abstract: Liu Shicong, a renowned prose translator in China, places great emphasis on revising his translations, and thus this paper investigates the self-revision in his English translation of Chinese prose exemplified by two different versions of 16 pieces. It is found that his revision mainly deals with such a...

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Author：Yunhua Deng, Fen Liu

Abstract: Based on the data analysis of the self-built corpus, this paper makes a systematic cognitive analysis of the syntactic and semantic features of English and Chinese causal complex sentences. The similarities are: both English and Chinese causal complex sentences have causal ma...

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Author：Xiaoyang Shen

Abstract: Inspired by Humboldt’s famous thesis that language contains national spirit, this paper takes the national spirit as a starting point to explore the cultural motivations behind the conceptual differences between Chinese and English double object constructions. The “giving...

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Author：Yu Shi

Abstract: There are generally three types of topics: Topicalization Topic Construction, Left Dislocation Topic Construction and Chinese-style Topic Construction (also called Dangling Topic). Dangling Topics could be further divided into true and fake dangling topics ...

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Author：Yanyan Li

Abstract: From a perspective of LCCM theory, this paper focuses on middle constructions in advertisement slogans, to explore the cognitive mechanism and the process of on-line meaning construction of middles. It argues that lexical concepts encoded in grammatical elements interact with relative cognitive perc...

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