2016 Vol. 32, No. 5

Specialty
Interpretation of National Flag Multimodal Metaphor across the World
SUN Yi, ZHOU Jing
2016, 32(5): 1-7.
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Traditional cognitive linguistics defines metaphor as a purely linguistic phenomenon, and Forceville and other representatives have extended conceptual metaphor to the multimodal platform. Flags of all countries mainly manipulate graphics, colors, text, concrete image, typography design for ingeniou...
Metaphor Scenarios in Political Cartoons: An Analysis of Critical Multimodal Metaphor
ZHAO Xiu-feng, DAI Xin-yang
2016, 32(5): 8-13,60.
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By weaving metonymy and metaphor chains into fictive narrative scenarios, metaphor scenarios make full use of story logics to construe the target concepts, charged with given evaluations as well as assumptions. With some revealing instances from the editorial cartoons in Economist, this paper makes ...
A Cognitive Multimodal Teaching Model for Writing of English Expository Articles: Color Terms
LIANG Xiao-hui, SUN Kai-meng
2016, 32(5): 14-22.
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The training of logicality in writing English expository articles has long been a key teaching point due to the fact that the expository article serves as the foundation of academic writing. Since the expository article is concerned with the way people perceive and present the world, some theories o...
A Study on Instruction Effects of Different Formats of Captions Instruction in English Major’s Audio-Visual Classroom
LIU Rui, ZHANG De-lu
2016, 32(5): 23-28.
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The study examined the impact of three kinds of captions such as full-word, keyword and no-word captions instruction on improving students’ listening comprehension in a local university. The researchers interviewed the students on what they experienced and learned in three kinds of captions instruct...
Situated Discourse and Multimodal Studies: Significance, Theory and Methodology
HUANG Li-he
2016, 32(5): 29-36.
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Real-life situated discourse is the most fundamental form of human interaction and it is constructed in the experiencing process of the Experiencer with the help of human multimodal sensory organs. In this real-life situated discourse, the Experiencer’s Total Saturated Experience and Situated Cognit...
Yangshi Lei’s Drawings and Archives of the Summer Palace in the National Library
BAI Hong-ye
2016, 32(5): 37-41.
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Nearly 2000 angshi Lei’s drawings of the Summer Palace in the National Library provide a number of credibel historical data for understanding and studying the Summer Palace. Through the drawings we can see the architects’creations in the Royal Garden building, and the drawing is the microcosm of the...
An Analysis of the Political Culture of Rebuilding of the Summer Palace in Tongzhi Dynasty
ZHAO Ya-li
2016, 32(5): 42-47.
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The Summer Palace is one of the most famous imperial gardens, which was burned in Xianfeng tenth year for the invasion of the British and French troops. After the reign of Emperor Tongzhi, the proposals of rebuilding of the Summer Palace were repeatedly put forward, and stopped for dissuasion of the...
On the Name of the Three Hills and Five Gardens
FAN Zhi-bin
2016, 32(5): 48-51.
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With the Chinese traditional philosophy and allusions, and the modern social identity, the paper analyses the concept of Three Hills and Five Gardens, determines the range of Three Hills and Five Gardens, and put forward some overall protection ideas.
Academic Contention & Criticism
The Basic Concept of Cosmopolitanism
CHEN Xun-wu
2016, 32(5): 52-60.
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The contemporary philosophical concept of cosmopolitanism poses a major challenge for us, including the challenge of rethinking of ontology consciousness, right consciousness, sense of identity and difference, consciousness of ethical belonging, consciousness of political affiliation, etc.
Reading & Research
A Comprehensive Expression of the Research on the Historical Records—Comments on Cheng Yu-qing’s Famous Notes and Comments ofPast Generations of the Historical Records
ZHAO Ji-ning
2016, 32(5): 61-64.
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About the study of notes and comments on the Historical Records, a comprehensive system of two aspects in a book was rare before Ming Dynasty. Famous Notes and Comments of Past Generations of the Historical Records written by Cheng Yu-qing in Qing Dynasty, made innovations styles, collected the note...
Reasons for the Formation of Literary Style and Discourse Mode of the Book of Lord Shang
WANG Hai-yang
2016, 32(5): 65-70.
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Li Kui’s and Wu Qi’s political reforms and the political tradition of State Wei constructed the ideological basis of Lord Shang. But State Qin’s special development status and practical requirements made the thought of Lord Shang gradually tend to extreme. He even thought that the country should use...
Law
On Labor Contract Legal System of South Africa
XIAO Hai-ying, LU Ren-mao
2016, 32(5): 71-75,80.
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As the strategy of Chinese Enterprises Going Out is carried forward, Chinese Enterprises Walking Into Africa is one of the most imporatnt strategies. The economic cooperation and communication between China and South Africa has developed into a profounding level, thus to know and be familiar with th...
Analysis of the Difficult Problems of “Birth Defects”
LIU Ting-hua
2016, 32(5): 76-80.
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The medical institutions encroached upon the patient’s right to know in the prenatal examination and diagnosis, resulted in the loss of chance of termination of pregnancy, birth defects and serious damage to the parents, so should bear tort liability. Damage compensation will not harm the dignity of...
A Brief Analysis on the Improvement of the Legislation of the People’s Livelihood of China
FU Qiang
2016, 32(5): 81-88,101.
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There are the following problems in the legislation of the people’s livelihood of China: the number of relevant laws is small, the law system is imperfect, the content and ideas of some laws are old-fashioned, and some laws are too principle to be implemented and inconsistent with the reality. To im...
Administration & Economics
National Policy: the Integration of Technology and Market Economy——With the Case of China’s Civil UAV
SONG Lin, LIU Zhao
2016, 32(5): 89-95.
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China’s civil UAV started in the 1980’s, after 30 years, has rapidly occupied the market in the world. In the paper, by analyzing the historical development of China’s civil UAV, the authors think that the national policy in the field plays an important role to promote the integration of technology ...
Literature and Art
A Panoramic Review of the Studies on Margaret Atwood in China
ZHAO Qian
2016, 32(5): 96-101.
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Margaret Atwood is one of the most popular contemporary writers among Chinese scholars. She has been praised as the “Queen of Canadian Literature”. The thesis is going to analyze all kinds of research results related to the field. As a result, we can know the trend of the previous studies so as to r...
The Carnival of Demons—A Case Study of Carnivalesque Elements in Sologub’s The Little Demon
SHENG Bai-hui, ZHANG Zi-yuan
2016, 32(5): 102-106,110.
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Theory of carnivalesque is the poetic theory proposed by Russian scholar Bakhtin, which focuses on carnivalesque features in literary works. Sologub in The Little Demon using the external appearance of carnivalesque elements showed deep evil in human nature and the kinds of human hideous act. And it...
The Fiction Miracle in Wildest Fantasy
GAO Ya-bin, WANG Wei-ying
2016, 32(5): 107-110.
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As a science fiction writer with innovation and pioneering spirit in 1950s to 1960s in last century, Xiao Jianheng’s science fiction takes his bold imagination as strengths.Bookers Adventures is the masterpiece of his science fiction. Through a fantastic story, he carried out science imagination on...
Education
On Index for Research Quality of Humanities and Social Science
YANG Xiao-ming, CHEN Cong, JIN Rui
2016, 32(5): 111-118.
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In this paper, based on the article number published on the domestic top journals and reproduced on the Xinhua Abstract, a quality index, model for the research of social science and the humanities is built. And the medel is used to empirical evaluation of the research institutions in China. The res...