2016 Vol. 32, No. 1

Specialty
Review of Transitivity Studies within Systemic Functional Linguistics
HE Wei, WEI Rong
2016, 32(1): 1-20.
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This paper first of all reviews transitivity studies within Systemic Functional Linguistics by Halliday, Matthiessen, Martin, et al. and Fawcett. Then it outlines developments and further developments of transitivity in China. The sketch of transitivity studies both abroad and at home reveals the ma...
Parenting Styles as Reflected in Discourse: Analyzing Father's Letters in Dad Where Are We Going
YANG Xue-yan, ZHAO Si-qi
2016, 32(1): 21-28.
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Studies on parenting styles have not paid enough attention to discourse analysis, which offers solid linguistic evidence as support. This paper presents an analysis of two fathers’ letters in the Chinese reality TV show Dad Where Are We Going within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. ...
A Contrastive Study of the English Translations of A New Account of Tales of the World—From the Perspective of Appraisal System
CHEN Yu-min, WANG Lu-yao
2016, 32(1): 29-36.
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This paper analyzes and compares the realizations and degree of attitudinal meanings in the source texts and two English translations of 100 selected stories from A New Account of Tales of the World by drawing upon the Appraisal system. It is found that affect accounts for the largest proportion in ...
The Study of Independent “de” Nominal Group in Modern Chinese: A Functional Approach
DAN Xiao-hong
2016, 32(1): 37-43.
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The research on Chinese “de” nominal group has a long history while the study on independent “de” nominal group is still lack of depth. This paper, from the perspective of functional linguistics, analyzes the function and meaning of “de” nominal group. From the study, the paper proposes that some “d...
A Systemic Functional Syntactic Analysis of the “N+to+V”Construction in English
YI Yong
2016, 32(1): 44-49.
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This paper takes a systemic functional approach to the syntactic analysis of the “N+to+V” construction in English, especially the relations between the noun and the verb of infinitives in it. This paper, as well, discusses the nominal group and different relations between clauses in clause complex. ...
Transitivity and the Theme of Pursuit: Morrison's Song of Solomon
YI Xiu-qing
2016, 32(1): 50-55.
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In recent years, scholars home and abroad explicate literary works based on systemic functional linguistics, which makes literary criticism even more objective. Taking the theme of self-identity in Song of Solomon as the research subject, the thesis interprets its thematic effect achieved by the tra...
Research Review on the Surrounding Villages of the Three Hills and Five Gardens
ZHAO Lian-wen, ZHAO Yong-kang
2016, 32(1): 56-61.
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Academic research on the surrounding villages of the Three Hills and Five Gardens began in the early 20th century. As scholars had different emphases, their researches presented a brilliant situation. In the study period, some scholars focused on the development and changes of the surrounding villag...
The New Democratic Republic: the Founding Documents of the CPC in the Anti-Japanese War
ZHANG Xu-dong
2016, 32(1): 62-65.
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“The New Democratic Republic”is the founding documents of the CPC in the Anti-Japanese War. It was the result of numerous choices since the party was founded in 1921, and laid a theoretical and practical basis for the “the People’s Republic of China”. In the exploration history of the CPC, “the New ...
Academic Contention & Criticism
On the Rise and Significance of the Research of “Critical School” in China
LI Tong-yu
2016, 32(1): 66-77.
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In the Materialism and Empiriocriticism, Lenin clearly put forward the concept of “idealism in physics” from two basic philosophical lines of division of two factions: the crisis and revolution of physics, attributed the commonness of philosophy of Mach, Poincare, Duhem, Ostwald and Pearson to “idea...
Reading & Research
Another Philosophical Proposition—Interpretation of the Poem Read the Book of Life and Death in Tibet by She Li
SHANG Lei
2016, 32(1): 78-85.
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The Poem Read the Book of Life and Death in Tibet by She Li is a representation of the Buddhist classics The Book of Life and Death in Tibet, which shows the existence of the death as another philosophical proposition and the necessity of its research. Based on the context of poem writing, the paper...
The Traumas That Can't Be Forgotten: Review of The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
WANG Xia
2016, 32(1): 86-90.
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Iris Chang is a Chinese-American. She describes the Nanjing Massacre from the perspectives of Japanese, westerners and Chinese in her book The Rape of Nanking. She analyzes the Japanese invasion and the deep reasons. She also describes Japan’s atrocities in Nanking, the miseries and traumas of Chine...
The Deep Structure of Zhang Ailing's Novels—A Study of Flower Withers from the Perspective of Greimas's Action Element and Semantic Matrix
YANG Chun
2016, 32(1): 91-96.
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The deep structure of Zhang Ailing’s novels is worthy of attention. Greimas put forward the theory and concepts of narrative program, action element, semantic matrix, and so on, which is an effective tool for revealing the deep structure of Zhang Ailing’s works. In the paper, four narrative procedur...
A Study of the Spatial Narrating Strategy in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
LÜ Ting-ting
2016, 32(1): 97-100.
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Spatial narrating strategy applied by Mark Twain in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is central to the successful of the narration. Probing into the strategy reveals the unprecedented skills on the part of the author in dealing with the relations between one space and another and between space and...
Philosophy & Science
On Chinese Teaism's Sublation of the Confucian Natural View
LI Ping
2016, 32(1): 101-105.
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Chinese teaism began in Tang Dynasty, matured in Song Dynasty and flourished in Ming Dynasty. Chinese teaism has been reproduced the Confucian natural view: the nature of Sky and Land, and virtues of man, so it has escaped from Daoism and Buddhism, and emphasized the unity of tea, man and Dao. Howev...
Administration & Economics
Comparative Analysis on the Determinants of High-tech Products Export Competitiveness in BRICS Countries
SUN Ying, WU Ke-liang, XU Ke
2016, 32(1): 106-112.
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The knowledge and technology-intensive high-tech products, represent a country’s comprehensive national strength and whole competitiveness, are also an important growth point of a country’s future economic and social development, and play an important part in strategy among the countries. This paper...
Literature and Art
On the Origin of Artistic Conception—Wang Guowei's Interprtation of the Concept
ZHANG Jun, OUYANG Min, XU Wen-rui
2016, 32(1): 113-117.
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In Chinese traditional aesthetic research and artistic creation, the origin of aesthetic mood has been a major theoretical and practical issue, and “image origin ”, “ music like origin ”, “ view source ”, etc. are the main statements on it. Its theory source can be traced back to the “ Yixiang origi...