2018 Vol. 34, No. 1

Specialty
Localization of Systemic Functional Linguistics: Review on Theoretical Studies at the 21st Symposium on Functional Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
LI Lu, HE Wei
2018, 34(1): 1-6.
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This paper gives a brief introduction to theoretical studies at the 21st Symposium on Functional Linguistics and Discourse Analysis held in Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China, from Nov. 1 to Nov. 2, 2017. Related keynote speeches concern the four goals for functional linguistics, further studies about the word and the group level of the language, or further studies about the clause level. Overall, this forum has played a significant role in the development of functional linguistics, especially in the localization of functional linguistics.
Localization of Systemic Functional Linguistics: Review on Applied Studies at the 21st Symposium on Functional Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
WANG Min-chen, HE Wei
2018, 34(1): 7-11.
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This paper gives a brief introduction to applied studies at the 21st Symposium on Functional Linguistics and Discourse Analysis held in Beijing Foreign Studies University from Nov. 1 to Nov. 2, 2017. In the forum, eight keynote speakers discuss how Functional Linguistics is applied to discourse analysis, language teaching and translation studies. Their studies promote the development of localization of Functional Linguistics, and provide paradigms for solving issues on Chinese research.
The Current Situation, Problems and Solutions of Discourse System Construction of the BRI and Community of a Shared Future
TANG Qing-ye, SHEN Ao
2018, 34(1): 12-17.
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This paper uses the databases of Duxiu, CNKI, Twitter and Think Tank to examine the academic achievements related to the Belt and Road Initiative (Hence BRI) during 2013-2017. The findings demonstrate that at home the research on the infrastructure, economy, finance and geopolitics under the context of BRI is the major concern, while the research on political discourse and community of a shared future draws little attention. Foreign public opinion research has

Contrastive Analysis of Discursive Representations of One Belt One Road Initiative by Foreign Media—A Corpus-based Semantic Prosody Study
SHI Xiao-yun
2018, 34(1): 18-25.
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After President Xi Jinping put forward One Belt One Road Initiative in 2013, there is much media coverage on this issue. This paper, based on the LexisNexis data of The New York Times, The Times of India and The Strait Times during September 2013 to June 2016, within the theoretical framework of semantic prosody and appraisal theory, explores the discursive construction of Belt and Road in the different ideological contexts. Findings demonstrate that the three newspapers represent the same social reality out of different stances and interests. They apply different terms to refer to Yidai Yilu. The Times of India explicitly demonstrates Indian government’s cold attitude, while The New York Times implicitly reveals its negative attitude. Through lexis of positive reaction and valuation, The Straits Times portrays overwhelming support for One Belt One Road Initiative.

New Trends in the Study of Corpus-based Pragmatics: A Review of Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2015
YANG Zi
2018, 34(1): 26-29.
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Despite the rapid development of Corpus Linguistics in recent years, studies featuring the integration of corpus and pragmatics are relatively rare. The series of Yearbooks of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics, edited by the Spanish scholar Jesús Romero-Trillo, has been published since 2013. This paper reviews the yearbook of 2015, which sheds light on the integration of corpus studies and pragmatics by presenting almost all existent paradigms of and the overall scaffold for doing corpus-based pragmatics.
The Subjective Strategies of the Older Generation of Migrant Workers and Their Identity Reproduction Based on Field Work of E Subway Construction Site
HAO Cai-hong
2018, 34(1): 30-38.
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Investigations of the older generation of migrant workers on E subway construction site shows that under the huge family livelihood pressures and the structural relationships between city and country, capital and labor, state and citizen, the older generation of migrant workers in the workplace chose subsistence ethics as their daily strategies and action principles, which was performed in the way of ordinary subordination to the workplace’s control system. However, when their economic interests were threatened, the older generation of migrant workers would take the identity of themselves as their weapon, which strengthened their identity along with the achievements of their resistance. It was concluded that under the constraints of multiple structures, subjective strategies of the older generation of migrant workers based on the current interests calculation admittedly satisfied their economic demands, but also limited their opportunities to change their identity and status.
The Construction Process and Tendency of Market Power to Urban Community
ZHANG Lin-jiang
2018, 34(1): 39-45.
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It has long been regarded that community pattern is the product of state-society interaction, without giving much attention on the influence of market power. This article analyzes the impact of market forces on urban communities since the reform and opening up by the research method of “thick description” and tries to predict the the future tendency of mutual construction between market factors and urban community.
Reading & Research
Contractual Unreliable Narration and Alienation Unreliable Narration of A Pale View of Hills
TENG Ai-yun
2018, 34(1): 46-50.
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A Pale View of Hills is a famous novel written by the British contemporary Japanese novelist Ishiguro Kazuo. The narrative of the novel is not reliable. Previous studies on the unreliable narration of novels are based on the unreliable narration theory of Booth, which explains the relationship between the narrator and the author. This kind of interpretation is slightly partial. Phelan’s theory increases the reader’s dimension in unreliable narration, which can be divided into two types: contract unreliable narration and alienation unreliable narration. On this basis, the paper analyzes the dynamic process of the narrator, the author and the reader in the two types unreliable narration, and explains the important significance of unreliable narration to novels’ theme expressions.
The Destruction of the Images of Ghosts and Fox Spirits in Song Yin Man Lu because of the Modern Western Learning
WANG Li-qun
2018, 34(1): 51-57.
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As an imitation of Liao Zhai Zhi Yi, the writing method, describing object and creative type of Song Yin Man Lu are all imitating, using the method of legend novel to describe the images of the ghosts and the spirits. But different from the way of pointing the status of the protagonists at the very beginning in Liao Zhai Zhi Yi, Wang Tao often conceals the special status of the protagonists. He emphasizes their human nature as women, and fades the characteristics of the ghosts and the goblins, which embodies the trend of the decomposition of the ghosts and fox spirits in the modern classical novels. The reason of the change mainly lies in the different living circumstances and cultural experiences. The western learning that Wang tao had got when translated the western books at missionary press, and the roaming world experiences made him not to believe in the existence of the ghosts and the spirits any more.
Educational History of the Republic of China
The Good Cooperation between Hu Shi and Cai Yuanpei
ZHANG Yao-jie
2018, 34(1): 58-67.
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As a whole, the Republican society was in a stage of advocating struggle. Hu Shi, an associate professor at Peking University from Anhui Province, and the President of Peking University, Cai Yuanpei who was from Zhejiang Province, based on the academic cooperation, appeared somewhat out of time and outdated.
Academic Contention & Criticism
Research on the Ci Abstracts of Si Ku Quan Shu Zong Mu——With Mengchuang Ci Abstracts as an Example
XIA Ming-yu
2018, 34(1): 68-74.
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Through the discrimination of gains and losses of the Mengchuang Ci Abstracts, this article shows that Ci abstracts of Si Ku Quan Shu Zong Mu has its own compiling system, including advantages of Han Xue textual criticism and Song Xue speculation, namely the evaluation of the version of Ci and the writer's life experience by Han Xue textual criticism method, the poetic communicative network and personality integrity by critical method of reflection of Life, and the art value location of Ci in history. In consideration of character and literary quality, Ci abstracts of Si Ku Quan Shu Zong Mu upholds the value scale with "not cover up the articles because of the characters", showing an open-minded critical position beyond the times.
Liu Xie’s Concept of “Tong Bian” and Its Particular Context
WANG Xiao-yu
2018, 34(1): 75-78.
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“Tong Bian” is not the original idea of Liu Xie, is based on the previous generation of resources and generated by the opportunity of the times. The “Tong” by Liu Xie is to know the meaning of “Ti”; “Bian” refers to the change of specific works and the question of the diversification of “Yong”. It is not to say that the relationship of “Tong Bian” is completely equal to “Ti Yong”. “Relying on affections to achieve continuity, relying on qi to move to mutation” is a creative idea of “Tong Bian”, that means “Tong Bian” is not only the question about literary creation, but the more extended to the talent and spirit of an individual.
Ethics
Study on Einstein’s Concept of Free Human Conscience
ZHOU De-hai
2018, 34(1): 79-87.
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At present, there is few research on Einstein’s concept of conscience. Einstein’s concept of free human conscience stems from belief in moral religion. Belief in the universal religion of god brings about such a high of human conscience. His pursuit of personal freedom brings about such a state of free conscience. Einstein’s concept of free human conscience has many positive effects on the developments of human society, logical socialism, the reform of state laws and the alignment of social and individual morality. But there are also many limitations in Einstein’s concept of free human conscience. It is extremely fragile in front of brutal tyranny and it can not exist without abundant material conditions. It is also lack of capricious and random nature.
Administration & Economics
The Relationship between We Media and the Government Image
CHANG Bing
2018, 34(1): 88-94.
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In the public agenda, the salience of the attributes and the objects affects the evaluation and behavior of the public on the object, and there are positive and negative values of the attributes and the objects. In the “we media” era, it reflects the four relations between “we media” and the government image in the image shaping of government. Therefore, there are four different states - the positive image of the government propagated by the positive media, the negative image of the government propagated by the positive media, the positive image of the government propagated by the negative media and the negative image of the government propagated by the negative media. The relationship between “we media” and the government in each state has different characters and challenges. In order to properly handle the relationship between “we media” and the government and achieve a win-win situation, we are supposed to: recognize the propagation environment of “we media”, be good at using “we media” in a timely manner to understand the trend of public’s opinions, improve government’s media quality, strengthen cooperation between “we media” and the government, improve the media quality of the media and the public.
The Interpretation and Construction Paths of Gongan Culture
ZHOU Jian
2018, 34(1): 95-100.
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The construction of Peace China needs the support of Gongan culture. But for a long time, Gongan culture has been simplified to the spiritual culture formed around the public security organs and police. This paper deconstructs Gongan culture into two related categories of the public safety culture and the police subculture based on the broad connotation of culture. The public safety culture has both the negative and the positive. The police subculture has the functions of marking, shaping, cohesive and demonstrating. The construction of Gongan culture can be achieved from the following two perspectives. First, we should cultivate public safety culture from content, subject and means to realize active participation of all citizens. Second, we should enhance order productivity of the police subculture through system, implements and behaviors as a guide. The two categories of Gongan culture are indispensable. They promote the realization of Peace China together.
Poltics
Evaluation of China’s Foreign Aid Policy towards Africa
DONG Tian-mei
2018, 34(1): 101-111.
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Through the combing of the history of international development assistance and China’s aid policy to Africa, the paper concludes that China’s aid policy to Africa is closely related to the history of international development assistance, and China has gradually formed a supportive system which is different from the western development intervention. Aid system provides a different model for effectively assisting Africa and other developing countries. On this basis, this paper uses the data of the Pew Research Center Global Attitude Project in 2015 and the African Barometer in 2016 to analyze the Chinese influence towards Africa, and the evaluation of African to China’s aid policy. China should not blindly expand the scale of its assistance in Africa. It should consider how to optimize the effectiveness of aid, especially in areas closely related to public life in Africa, with the least expenditure to achieve greater results and to improve people’s livelihood and Africa’s capacity for independent development.
Education
A Study of Foreign Language Teachers’ TPACK Structure
WANG Fei
2018, 34(1): 112-118.
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A survey of 65 college English teachers in Gansu was conducted using TPACK scale developed by Schmidt & Mishra (2009) and Sahin(2011). The results show that the mean score of TPACK falls into medium level with PCK the highest one and TK the lowest one; there is a significant difference between male and female teachers on TK and TCK dimensions; the education background has positive impact on CK, PK and PCK level; there is a positive correlation between the professional title and the four dimensions, CK, PK, TPK and TPACK. Based on the results, this research hopes to provide theoretical and practical guidance.