北京科技大学学报（社会科学版）

A Study on the Function of Grammatical Metaphor in Knowledge Construction in Academic Discourse across Different Disciplines

YU Hui, YU Ting-ting

2017, 33(2): 1-7.

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Over the last fifty years, Bernsteinian sociology and systemic functional linguistics have shared the same interest in education. The aim of the study is to compare, from a systemic functional approach, the differences between the knowledge structures of pedagogic discourses in different disciplines...

Analysis of Periodicity in Texts

ZHANG Pei-wen

2017, 33(2): 8-12.

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As component of SFL textual metafunction and language resources to instantiate textual meaning, periodicity consists of Theme/New, hyperTheme/hyperNew, macroTheme/macroNew. Analysis of periodicity in texts shows that both recount and exposition make use of textual resources such as periodicity to sc...

A Study of Nominalization in Pharmaceutical Research Articles

ZHENG Yao-fei, LIANG Min-shan

2017, 33(2): 13-22.

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Nominalization is the key resource in construing disciplinary academic registers. The present study analyzes nominalization in authentic pharmaceutical research articles based on studies about grammatical metaphor in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The analysis shows that nominalization aboun...

A Cognitive Construal Perspective on the Concessive Construction “Just Because X Doesn't Mean Y”

ZHANG Song-song, HU Jin-yang

2017, 33(2): 23-27.

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The research of English concessive construction "Just Because X Doesn't Mean Y" (JBX-DMY in short) didn't solve the problem of cognitive construal. On one side, based on COCA observation, the article treats construal operation as cognitive basis and summarizes construal means, viewing point and view...

The Complementation of Discourse Analysis and Schemata Construction—The Application of Cognitive Patterns in Interpreting E. E. Cummings' Poems

ZHAO Kai, LI Jing

2017, 33(2): 28-32,64.

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As two of the most significant theories within the domain of psycho-linguistic study, the Top-Down Model and the Bottom-Up Model have been wildly applied for the study of discourse-analysis. The authors here behold that the interpretation of literal discourse is essentially a process of integration ...

The Research on Ageing Society and Domestic Saving in China

HU Nai-jun

2017, 33(2): 33-38.

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The demographic change will change the domestic consumption together with the saving. The basic logic is that when the labor age population's ratio begins to fall, the consumption is increasing that savings will be lower. But if there is no social security or welfare such as pension and health secur...

Living Condition and Path Selection of the Elderly Rural People in Gansu

LIU Wen-hua

2017, 33(2): 39-45.

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Based on the questionnaire survey and the depth interview methods, the article describes in detail the living condition of the elderly rural people in Gansu. The results are below:the degree of education of the elderly rural people is very low, the problems of living solitary because of bereft spous...

Rethinking of the Methodology of Cross-cultural Research

DING Zi-jiang

2017, 33(2): 46-59.

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Methodology is an important part of traditional Western Philosophy. It enables one to examine, analyze, compare, criticize, justify, verify and integrate various concrete, individual and specific approaches. So far, experts and scholars from diverse fields have explored, created and developed a coll...

WU Bing

2017, 33(2): 60-64.

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English translation of the Lao Zi has various receptions in the west. Generally speaking, these receptions have two directions:facing to the text's original meaning or facing to its present application, which are the results of audience's choice for differences or similarities as well as the results...

Cultural Semiotics and ChineseTraditional Culture-A Case Study of Chinese Teaism

WU Yuan-zhi, XU Xue

2017, 33(2): 65-69.

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From the perspective of cultural semiotics, we believe that the Chinese teaism is the most representative of the Chinese national cultural symbols, which most truly shows the cultural gene and the l character of the Chinese nation. This is not accidental, but a natural selection in a long history. T...

Cosmology, Epistemology and Basic Philosophical Orientation—Speculation about Wang Xinggong

LI Xing-min

2017, 33(2): 70-80,87.

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As a scientific philosopher,in his Scientific Methodology, Introduction to Science and other papers, Wang Xinggong discusses the theory of cosmology and knowledge more completely. Based on his view of the world and the theory of knowledge, the paper demonstrates his philosophical orientation is clos...

Comparative Study of BRICS Countries' High-tech Products Competitiveness——With Export to the OECD Countries as Examples

SUN Ying, SHEN Xiao-qi

2017, 33(2): 81-87.

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Based on the theories and empirical research results of export competitiveness of high technology (high-tech) products, this paper employs ESI(Essential Science Indicators) to analyze the complementation and competition of high-tech products of BRICS' countries in international trade market, especia...

Study on the Factors Influencing the Implementation of Poverty—Taking the Village L as an Example

FENG Ying, YANG Jia-wei

2017, 33(2): 88-95.

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Whether the public policy can achieve the desired objectives depends on whether the policy is performed corectly. This paper is based on a typical poor region Village L in Hebei Province as an example, according to the actual situation and the actual research of policy implementation, adjusting the ...

The Qualitative Change of the Academic Evaluation System in Japan—Establishment of a Researchers-oriented Academic Evaluation System

FAN Yu-mei

2017, 33(2): 96-106.

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A well-designed academic evaluation mechanism safeguards a country in its scientific as well as technological innovation and the quality thereof. Japan started to explore a "quality higher education oriented" academic evaluation system since late 20th century, triggering a qualitative shift to "rese...

The Politics of Subaltern and Alterity: Constructing Third-world Femininities in Ru Freeman's A Disobedient Girl

ZHANG Lei, LEI Min

2017, 33(2): 107-113.

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As a classic post-colonial text, A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman is set in post-independence Sri Lanka that is still largely ravaged by various social conflicts. In the absence of direct colonial rule, the colonial political, legal and educational systems still exert their palpable influences on Sr...

Literature, Theory and Democratic Criticism in British Cultural Studies—Richard Hoggart: Anti-theoretical or Atheoretical?

ZHAO Bing

2017, 33(2): 114-119.

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Richard Hoggart is generally regarded as a representative of the pre-theoretical era in the history of British Cultural Studies, a literary empiricist and culturalist. He is further dismissed as anti-theoretical or atheoretical. This paper, however, argues that Hoggart's cultural criticism is anythi...

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