2016 Vol. 32, No. 3

Specialty
Computer-aided Rhetorical Analysis: State of the Union Addresses (1993—2008) as a Case Study
QIAN Duoxiu, David Kaufer
2016, 32(3): 1-9.
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It has been ticklish to do rhetorical analysis quantitatively. Existing studies mainly focus on literary texts and rely on subjective reading in analysis. This paper intends to introduce a computer-aided empirical method for rhetorical analysis based on a case study of the State of the Union address...
Explicit and Implicit Cohesive Devices and Coherence in English-Chinese Translation Teaching
LU Jie-yu
2016, 32(3): 10-14.
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The identification and application of coherence and cohesive devices are directly related to the quality of text translation. Thus in the translation teaching, learners should not only be required to identify the cohesive devices and coherence in the source text, but also be guided to reproduce the ...
The Construe of Interactive Meaning in Multimodal Electronic Dictionaries—Taking LDOCEP for IOS as an Example
ZHANG Chun-yan, CHEN Si-yi-ye
2016, 32(3): 15-20.
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With the rapid development of the technology of electronic network, dictionaries show a tendency for electronization and mulitimodalization. This paper, under the theoretical framework of Kress and van Leeuwen's multimodal discourse analysis, attempts to analyze the construe of interactive meaning i...
A Study on the Ecological Language Teaching from the Postmethod Perspective
HAN Xing, CAO Chun-chun
2016, 32(3): 21-25.
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From the postmethod perspective, the present study intends to explore the construction of English class ecology. Different from any other traditional teaching method and approach, postmethod is a new critical thinking for language teaching, which is beyond any ONE teaching method. Firstly, the paper...
A Discourse-based Study of the Topics in the Ba-construction
WANG Lei, LI Tao
2016, 32(3): 26-31.
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The Ba-construction is one of the most discussed topics in Chinese linguistics. In recent years, apart from its grammatical and semantic features, its textual function is getting more and more attention. This paper, by applying a set of measurements of topic continuity proposed by Givón (1983), trie...
2016, 32(3): 32-32.
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Media, Culture, Identity—An Analysis of Current Shifts in the Media and Cultural Landscape in the Spirit of Marshall McLuhan
Christina Schachtner, TANG Tao
2016, 32(3): 33-39.
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According to Marshall McLuhan, the message of any medium or any technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs (McLuhan 1968, 22f.). In this respect, McLuhan did not focus on the contents of media but on the cultural implications of the medium, introducing...
Towards the Ontology of Ahuman in the Age of Contemporaneity
Andrija Filipović, KOU Fu-rong
2016, 32(3): 40-44.
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Among the more recent scholars, McLuhan's conception of media and technology as an extension of the human has been replaced by the conception according to which technology is no longer simply a tool, but the basis of thinking the human in general, so instead of thinking the subject and the body in r...
The Aesthetic Newness in New Media Art:The Extension of the Senses or Dis-sensus Communis?
Bojana Matejić, WANG Ling
2016, 32(3): 45-49.
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The historical technological transformation conditions the socio-economic and political relations between individuals in the given world, as well as, ontological changing of the human sensorium and of the human being itself. As Marx already pointed out, the technology exemplifies the interaction bet...
The Aesthetic Meaning of “the Medium is the Message”
CHEN Hai
2016, 32(3): 50-54.
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At present, "the Medium is the Message" is studied much, and nothing can be said from communication point of view. However, if we study from the aesthetic point of view, we will find that "the Medium is the Message" has a unique aesthetic meaning. McLuhan should not only be seen as a media theorist,...
Understand the Temperature of Big Data—Based on McLuhan’s Theory of Cold and Hot Media
LI Lu
2016, 32(3): 55-59.
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McLuhan distinguished the "cold" and "hot" attribute of the media according to the degree of participation of the audience as well as the clarity of information. "Cold media" is generally considered as a medium with high participation degree and low information clarity. Based on these two criteria, ...
The Leader of the New China X-ray Study—The Establishment and Development of the X- ray Science of Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel Technology
ZHANG Mei-fang, CHEN Yao
2016, 32(3): 60-67.
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From 1950s to 60s, Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel Technology (formerly Beijing Beijing Institute of Iron and Steel Industry, now University of Science and Technology Beijing) became one of the national X-ray research and teaching centers. Based on the interviews of the participant and academic ...
How to Console the Lonely Soul?—A Research about Different Needs of Parents Lost Their only Child
LIU Xiang-ying, CHEN Xin-yu
2016, 32(3): 68-73.
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Parents who have lost their only child form a special group of people in China. After experiencing the pain of losing the only child, they are about to step into an age of facing numerous difficulties. In recent years, the government has paid more attention to the group, and promulgated relevant pol...
The Business Streets in the Area of Three Hills and Five Gardens in the Qing Dynasty
ZHAO Lian-wen, QIAO Ting
2016, 32(3): 74-79.
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In the Qing dynasty, the emperors continually built royal gardens in the area of Three Hills and Five Gardens, which made royal gardens experience its peak development in Qianlong period. In order to meet the royals' curiosity and life needs of the nobles, and to provide necessary material supplemen...
Historic Site, Document and Image: Archaeological Discovery and Preliminary Study of the Site of Changchun Garden
SUN Meng
2016, 32(3): 80-87.
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Archaeological excavation of Changchun Garden more comprehensively and systematically revealed the Palace Area, Danhuaitang Parish and the Hanjingtang Area, is the largest, longest and most significant excavation over the years, and provides the most important and intuitive information for archaeolo...
Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Ching-wei Tried to Get Germany for the Purpose of Mediating Conflict between China and Japan in 1935
ZHANG Bei-gen
2016, 32(3): 88-93.
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In 1935, Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei got Germany to mediat the Sino-Japanese conflict, which is not an attempt to take refuge in Germany and Japan's anti-Communist traitorous conspiracy, nor does it sell out national and State interests. Chiang Kai-shek's real objective is, through Germany's me...
Reading & Research
Methodology of Pleasure Peak: a Test of Jiaofang in Tang Dynasty
DONG Xi-ping, GUO Xing
2016, 32(3): 94-99.
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The symbol of cultural prosperity in Tang dynasty is that poetry creating and singing reached a historical peak, and the maturity and prosperity of Tang poetry has an important relation with its music. Song poetry was an important form of Tang poetry, the development of Song poetry was closely assoc...
War Space, Desire Space and Individual Space: the Space of Lust, Caution
YANG Chun
2016, 32(3): 100-106.
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Lust, Caution is full of contradictions of binary opposition. Zhang Ailing gave a full expression of the individual lives in perceptual space (lust) and the rational space (caution), the space of human desire (lust) and social norms (caution), the space of the state (caution) and the individuals (lu...
Academic Contention & Criticism
Thinking about the Researches on the Western Learning to the East
MA Lai-ping
2016, 32(3): 107-112.
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In the process of collision and integration of science and the national culture, especially as China has a long history, the cultural essence of science is more easily have an unexpected appearance. Therefore, dissemination of western learning to the east is a characteristic field to understanding s...
Philosophy & Science
Static Method and Its Interpretation—China Teaism with Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching
LIU Feng
2016, 32(3): 113-117.
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China teaism, broad and profound, so lays the foundation for the inheritance and promotion of traditional culture. Tao Te Ching is a treasure of traditional culture, and also an important ideological source of China teaism. The paper is to interpret Tao Te Ching's philosophical connotation from the ...