Author：Dongsheng Ren, Mengjia Li

Abstract: The narrative frame theory focusing on the interaction between translation and political conflicts can be applied to evaluate the influence of novel translations reframed by translators on the political and social context. With Mona Baker's narrativity as its theoretical basis, this paper conducts a contrastive text-analysis of Builders of a New Life by Sidney Shapiro and Great Changes in a Mountain Village by Derek Bryan. The result shows that, in applying strategies of label framing, repositioning of participants and selective appropriation of textual materials, Bryan failed to reframe the original narrative with Chinese culture and conflicts in the cooperation movement, while Shapiro succeeded in doing so and even strengthened the socialist features of original narratives, thus making due contributions to the external spread of national narrative and the establishment of a positive national image.

Column：Translation Studies   103-114   Details

Author：Rui Xi

Abstract: As an important way to improve the media image and enhance the status of farmers, news cartoons which are rich in metaphorical meaning can effectively construct and disseminate the image of farmers. Based on the theories of Visual Grammar, Multimodal Metaphor and Multimodal Metonymy, this article tries to conduct a systematic analysis of 45 "farmer" themed cartoons on China News Cartoon Network in the past three years with a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods. The study shows that four kinds of famers' images are constructed in media, namely, the poor who engage in manual labor; benefactors and sufferers who are vulnerable groups; lawbreakers with low cultural qualities; creators and beneficiaries of a better life.

Column：Linguistic Studies   115-125   Details

Author：Fengjuan Cui

Abstract: Based on real online discourses on the Japanese mainstream social media platform Twitter, this study uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze the discourse generators' referential strategies and the empathic and dissociative functions of different referential strategies from a pragmatic perspective, in order to explore the way the Japanese mainstream social media platform constructs the discourse image of "Chinese students." The study finds that the group images of Chinese students constructed by mainstream social media platforms are: those who receive special treatment from the Japanese government; "spies" who violate intellectual property rights; participants in illegal and criminal acts; competitors for employment. In addition, when constructing a positive image of an individual Chinese student, the discourse generators will use the nominalization strategy to achieve the effect of in-grouping,

Column：Linguistic Studies   126-137   Details

Author：Hongqiang Zhu, Minyan Wu

Abstract: English major of higher education in China has currently witnessed a shift from "extensional" to "intensional" development model. In this context, the paper investigates the recognition of English-major teachers' identity in domestic colleges and universities. Findings show that, first, in the context of the transformation of English major' education model, English teachers emphasize the significance of improving the quality of English as a major, constructing the identity of "supporter" in the development of English intensional education model. Second, there is a contradiction between teaching and researching. A majority of English teachers identify themselves as "instructor" instead of "researcher." Third, by showing the need for self-development, the identity of "learner for self-development" is therefore recognized. Moreover, teachers' identity is an interactive relationship formed between teachers and the institutional discourse.

Column：Linguistic Studies   138-149   Details

Author：Wei Ruan, Zhaocheng Gao

Abstract: rofessor Ruan Wei got his doctor’s degree from Edinburgh University,and have published many works both in contemporary English literature,Comparing of Chinese-Western culture and the western Classics. As an important part in western literature as well as in world literature,the 20th century British literature are read and studied by students both from Chinese department and English department in China. In this interview, Doctor Gao Zhaocheng talked five contemporary British writers with professor Ruan Wei.

Column：Lushan Talks   150-156   Details