简介:Throughoutthehistory,arbitrarinessputforwardbySaussurehasbeenregardedasoneofthemostdesigningfeaturesoflanguage.Saussureclaimedthatthereisnointerrelationshipbetweenthesignifierandsignified,orsuchrelationshipcan’tbetestifiedbutconventional.Later,thefamouslinguistsPeirceandHaiman,whohavemadegreatcontributiontotheever-heatedtheoryoficonicity,revealanotherfeatureofthelanguage.Thepurposeofthispaperisnottodenythearbitrarynatureoflanguage,buttosuggestthatthenatureoflanguageisacombinationofarbitrarinessandiconicity.
简介:Amongthemodernrhetoricaldevices,metonymyandsynecdochearetwoimportantfiguresofspeech,whichareanalogoustoeachotherforbothusethenameofonethingforthatofsomethingelse.Thatistosay,bothoftherhetoricaldevicesinvolvesubstitution.Thusthetwoconceptsareconfusing.Metonymyemphasizesonusingthenameofonethingforthatofsomethingelsewithwhichitisassociated.Synecdocheisafigureofspeechinwhichapartisusedforawhole,anindividualforaclass,amaterialforathing,orthereverseofanyofthese.Bymakingacomparativestudyofthesetwothroughtheconnotationandcategory,theauthorsummarizesthat:theyaretwoindependentfiguresofspeech.
简介:Sincethepolicyofreformandopeningupbeganin1978,theeconomyofourcountryhasmaderapidprogress.Whileapplaudingthesuccessachieved,weregrettoseemanyproblemsstillexist,amongwhichChinglishisaprominentone.IthasnotonlyhinderedtheinternationalcommunicationbetweenChinaandforeigncountries,evenworse,spoiledChineseimageonthestageofglobalization.ThisthesischoosesthefieldofadvertisementasthetopicandattempttoresearchforthecausesandmanifestationsofChinglish.Atthesametime,itisdevotedtodiscussingwaystoreduceChinglish,withaviewtobringingtranslationtoahigherstandard.
简介:ItisquitecommonthatCollegestudents’writingsareoftenloadedofordinarywordsandmonotonoussentencepatternsbecausetheyoftendeliberatelyavoidsomelanguagestructuresandconjunctions.ThiskindofsketchyandhollowwritingsmayhindertheimprovementofEnglishwritingskill.Thispaperfirstresearchesthisavoidancephenomenonfromthreeaspects:lexis,syntax,anddiscourse,thenexploresthereasonsbehindit,andfinallyputsforthsomeinstructivesuggestionsforimprovingthiscondition.
简介:ThispaperinvestigatestheevolutionarychangeintheOF(OF)ofhedgesindifferentmovesofEMRAs(EMRAs).Twocorporaareestablishedforlongitudinalstudy,withCorpusAconsistingofEMRAsfrom1990-1994andCorpusBfrom2005-2009.Generally,nosignificantchangehasbeenfoundinoveralluseofhedges.However,apartfrommove6,7and10,wehavefoundsomeinterestingchangesintheothermoves.Ontheonehand,theOFofhedgesinmove1,move3,move4andmove5showsasignificantincrease.Ontheotherhand,theOFofhedgesinmove2,8,9andmove11showasignificantdecrease.
简介:“把”(bǎ)-SentenceisanimportantpartofChineseteaching.Takingbǎ-SentenceintheHSKDynamicCompositionCorpusastheobjectofstudy,thewritersummarizestheerrorsthatforeignstudentsmakewhentheylearnandusethebǎ-Sentence,exploresthecausesoftheseerrorsundertheguidanceofthetheoriesoftheinter-languageanderroranalysis,andgivescorrespondingteachingsuggestionsinthisstudy.
简介:Withtheteachingreformbecomingdeepened,peoplehaverecognizedthattherolesofteachersshouldbeconstantlyenrichedandre-defined.Englishteachersmustgooutoftherigidteachingmodeltoadapttothedevelopmentofteachingapproach,andthenplaynewrolesandbecomemodernEnglishteacherswithgoodquality.This,inturn,furtherpromotesEnglishteachingreform.Therealizationoftheshiftoftherolesofteachersinclasshasbecomeaninevitabletendency.
简介:Abstract:ByapplyingtheMongolianauxiliaryverbthelinguisticaffinitytheoryandthecomparisonmethodoflinguistics,"ge-"andtheManchuauxiliaryverb"sembi"arecomparedandana-lyzedinthisarticle.Itisrevealedfortheverbs"ge"and"sembi"howtoevolveinitslanguageand
简介:Thelinguisticinterferenceofone’smothertonguealwaysposesanobstacletohisorherlearningoffor-eignlanguagesandteachersshouldtrytheirbesttodis-covermeanstoovercomethis.ThispaperanalyzestheformsandcausesofChinglish,whichiscreatedbyadultChineselearnersofEnglishthroughtheirmoth-er-tongueinterference.AfteracontrastivestudyofsomelinguisticfeaturesbetweenChineseandEnglish,theauthorliststencommonformsofChinglish,il-lustratedwithexamplesfromhisownteachingprac-tice,andpointsouttheirrespectivecausesandsomepossiblemeasurestoeradicatethem.
简介:EnglishditransitiveconstructionisasignificantcomponentofGoldberg’sconstructiongrammarwhichisbasedoncognitivelinguistics.ItaimstoenlightenteachersandlearnersofSLA.ItpresentsbackgroundsandthebasicconceptsofGoldberg’sconstructiongrammar,depictswhatEnglishditransitiveconstructionisanditssemanticconstraints,andreferstoenlightmentsofEnglishditransitiveconstructiononSLAfromfourperspectives.