2019 Vol. 35, No. 4

Specialty
CiteSpace-based Analysis on Frontiers and Hot Issues of China's Discourse System for International Communication
TANG Qing-ye, HE Liang
2019, 35(4): 1-8.
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In the new era the construction of discourse system for international communication is of paramount importance to the improvement of China's cultural soft power,which has become a research hotspot.This paper uses the database of CNKI(2010-2018) to examine the status quo of research on discourse system for international communication by means of CiteSpace.The limited period has witnessed an upsurge of its domestic research.Most research focuses on its reason, significance, value, and principle."The Belt and Road Initiative", "Community with a Shared Future for Mankind", "Chinese Dream", "Chinese Stories", and "the International Discursive Power" are the keywords of the existing research, and are expected to be the focus in the future.Despite the achievements, there still remind some problems such as terminology confusion, indistinct definition,scarcity of interdisciplinary perspectives, the monotonous research methods, vague classification of audiences, lack of in-depth study, and so on.In view of the above research gaps, this study offers suggestions so as to shed some light on the future research of the construction of China's discourse system for international communication.
An Exploratory Analysis on the Semantic Character of Projecting Verbal Group Complex
WANG Gen-lian
2019, 35(4): 9-15.
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Projecting verbal group complex with irreal semantic characters is one of approaches to representing logic-semantic relationship.Complying with the functional principle that meaning is represented by form,the present paper attempts to explore the semantic characters of projecting verbal group complex from the perspective of functional grammar.First,a brief introduction to verbal group complex is given from interdependency relationship and logic-semantic relationship,and then a general statement of relevant syntax and speech function of the projecting verbal group complex is demonstrated,after which is followed by the respective illustration on its different semantic features in verbal process and mental process; finally, the discrimination between projecting verbal complex structure and causative structure is made as well,hoping to provide some reference and implication for the study of the semantic of projecting language.
Discourse Analysis of Feelings in Song Lyrics under the Appraisal Theory
XU Wen-tao
2019, 35(4): 16-22.
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Expressing Feelings is the key to the Song Lyrics.The Appraisal theory provides a systematic approach to feelings.The paper, within the framework of the Appraisal theory, constructs an analytic framework and procedure of feelings in Song Lyrics.Feelings should be analyzed from types, polarity, strategies, participants and scales, and the feelings are distributed in discourse in ranks:micro-feelings,meso-feelings and macro-feelings.The deconstruction of feelings begins with foregrounding micro-feelings,then backgrounding micro-feelings with reference to meso-feelings and macro-feelings and ends with the fluctuation of feelings.The paper, using the model, analyzes the feelings in Li Qingzhao's "Slow, Slow Tune".
Gapping in Mandarin Chinese: A Language Information Structure Perspective
WANG Zhu, ZHANG Tian-wei
2019, 35(4): 23-32.
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Based on Language Information Structure Theory and a contrast test of the acceptability of gapping data,this paper identifies that gapping exists in Mandarin Chinese.The linguistic context helps to improve and understand its acceptability.Mandarin Chinese gapping is a typical Topic-Comment Structure,and it transmits contrastive information by means of contrastive topic and contrastive focus.The roles of focus and the strength of contrastive information are the main factors affecting gapping's acceptability.Quantifiers,demonstratives and imperative mood can increase the acceptability by strengthening contrastive information.Adverbs,negators and effect-cause complex sentences can decrease the acceptability by influencing the roles of focus.
A Review of The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics
HONG Dan, ZENG Lei
2019, 35(4): 33-37.
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As a hybrid of linguistics and ecology, ecolinguistics, concerning the relationship between language and environment,has paved the way to transdisciplinarity.The last half century has witnessed its increasingly stable research team and fruitful achievements and it has actually become more and more well established within mainstream linguistics.The present paper introduces the main content of the newly-published book titled The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics in this field and make a brief comment about it.
Construction of China Image: Harmonious Discourse Analysis
LIU Shu-xin
2019, 35(4): 38-45.
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National image promotions via New Media are to improve the international understanding of nations,to establish well national image as well as to reflect the national ideology.This paper treats Changing China:2012-2017,produced by Reading China Studio, which is rather popular home and abroad since published, as the exploration subject, and applies the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics to conduct harmonious discourse analysis via multimodal analysis tool complementally.The result shows that Changing China:2012-2017 has been conveying the true image of China,integrating all aspects of the nation, China.It is a kind of certain beneficial discourse promoted by Arran Stibbe, for the reason that as a discourse for promoting national image,it does bring encouragement to the nation-wide as well as be of importance to keep the inter-nations relationship more living.The present research is also believed to offer new probe angle on how to effectively construct and promote national images as well as introduce national potential "soft powers" in certain international affair-promotion context via New Media.
Art Film and the Shaping of National Image: Take the Reflection on the Crosscurrent as an Example
ZHAO Lu-ping
2019, 35(4): 46-52.
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Art film has become an important means to show the national image to the world because of its special international exchange.Among the Chinese art films released in recent years,the Crosscurrent is typical because it regards the important symbol of the Chinese nation, the Yangtze River, as the space-time background and object of presentation of the film.By analyzing the cultural awareness hidden behind the "Chinese" style of artistic presentation in the Crosscurrent and the national image created by this cultural awareness,this paper reflects on the cultural dilemma existing in Chinese art movies outside of film art,and then explores the corresponding solutions.
Regional Investigation on the Weakness of Shexue in the Middle of Ming Dynasty: Taking the Jiangyin County of the South Zhili as the Center
LI Zong-ji, WU De-yi
2019, 35(4): 53-60.
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During the Jiajing years in the Ming Dynasty, the Jiangyin county records showed that the development of Shexue,an official grassroots educational institution,was very weak, and therefore doubted the weakness of the local culture and education.In fact, during the Imperial Examination Society of the Ming Dynasty, the Shexue with teaching as the main function could not become the mainstream of Shexue,therefore the good Children Education system formed in the Jiangyin area in the Song and Yuan Dynasties was limited.The change of the economic situation in Jiangnan in the middle of the Ming Dynasty led to the destruction of the foundation system of Shexue storage and the increasing loss of social students as the main body of the grassroots people,which accelerated the decline of Jiangyin's Shexue.Jiangyin Shexue could only be revived in the short term with the support from knowledgeable officials.The rise and fall of Jiangyin Shexue is a microcosm of the development of Shexue in Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty,from which we can see the development trend of "short prosperous long descending" presented by the Shexue of Jiangnan.
Sociology
The Relation of Socioeconomic Status and Functional Health of Chinese Elderly People: Physic Exercises and Health Insurance as Mediator
HU Jie-rong
2019, 35(4): 61-69.
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Socioeconomic status is one of the fundamental causes which have effects on health,and the theories which pay attention to the behavioral or environmental factors supply different perspectives.Based on the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey Data(2014),this paper uses Logit regression models and KHB method to analyze the relation and mechanism how socioeconomic status affect functional health of Chinese elderly people through the mediating variables of physical exercises of individual behavioral aspect and health insurances of institutional environmental factor.This research finds that the different dimension of SES has different direction on the physical health of the elderly,education level and self-rated economic status have a significant positive impact,but only the significant difference in functional health between the rich and the poor elderly people is in part caused through physical exercises.As suppression,physical exercises and health insurance partly cancel the effects which vocation and residence contribute to the elderly's functional health difference,and physical exercises has greater influence than payer of medical expense.This paper shows both behavioral and environmental theoretical perspectives are explanatory to the mechanism of socioeconomic status on the elderly's functional health,but the individual factor of physical exercises is a more powerful mediator than the institutional element of health insurance.
The Structure and Criticalness of Post-positivism: Comment on the Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
HE Wei, CAO Ren-ren
2019, 35(4): 70-76.
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In 1962,Thomas Kuhn strongly demonstrated that scientific progress is a revolutionary history of subversion and reconstruction with The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.In methodology,Kuhn criticized traditional positivism but inherited the principles of logical empiricism,and then constructed post-positivism.In epistemology,Kuhn interpreted the thought of Scientific Revolutions on the whole through post-positivist approach.By distinguishing the relevant terms of post-positivism and citing the Scientific Dispute since the London International Symposium on Philosophy of Science in 1965,the study shows that the textual criticism of the Popper School and Historicism has caused the Kuhn paradigm to be subject to textualism,while the interpretation of Marxist style makes post-positivism return to historical practice,and reveals that the value of Kuhn's Scientific Revolution lies in the philosophical construction of a revolutionary framework for people to think about knowledge development and scientific progress.
Public Management
The Effectiveness of the Policy Implementation of the Intermediate Level Government under the“Streamlining Administration,Delegating More Powers, Improving Regulation and Optimizing Services” Reform
ZHAO Ji
2019, 35(4): 77-84.
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The reform of "Streamlining Administration, Delegating More Powers, Improving Regulation and Optimizing Services" is a key point to deepen reform comprehensively.In the process of promoting the implementation of the reform policy of "Streamlining Administration, Delegating More Powers, Improving Regulation and Optimizing Services", the efficiency of policy implementation among the Intermediate Level Government differs greatly, the execution of the policy is relatively poor, and the phenomenon of mechanical transmission and unreasonable arrangement of policy exists widely.In this paper,the policy implementation model established by D.S.Van Meter and C.E.Vanhorn is used to analyze the obstacles of effectiveness in the analysis, the obstacles of operational ability,the obstacles of political support and the obstacles of policy environment faced by the intermediate level government in policy operation.It is believed that the reform should attach importance to the construction of the policy implementation efficiency of the intermediate level government,and solve the prominent problems in the policy operation of the intermediate level government through practical system design and arrangement.
Study on the Construction of Modern Governance System for Cultural Consumption Ecology
XU Wang
2019, 35(4): 85-92.
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In view of the cultural consumption ecological crisis triggered by the current tide of cultural commodification,it is necessary to standardize and construct a cultural consumption ecological governance system.This is also an essential part of the national cultural governance system.The goal of constructing this system is to form a benign interaction and organic integration of the ecological main body and the external ecological environment of the cultural consumption ecosystem.Based on the interdisciplinary vision,the article uses the normative research method to find a balance between the consumption ecology and the cultural ecology between the two dimensions of economy and culture.The concepts of "ecological niche" and "ecological chains" in ecology is introduced to study the relationship between internal ecological subjects, and PEST model analysis is used to analyze the external ecological environment.Finally,it is proposed to continuously strengthen the guidance of cultural consumers and the regulation of the cultural consumption market,so as to promote the formation of a benign cultural consumption ecology,which will force the cultural production ecology to return to the right track.
Law
Analysis of Mixed Attributes of Land Use Right Transfer Contract and Its Application of Judicial Remedy: Thinking and Correction Based on Two-stage Theory
CHEN Xin-fan, WU Ming-yi
2019, 35(4): 93-103.
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The contract of state-owned land use right transfer is faced with the conflict of private law or public law mode in the settlement of its dispute because of its different understanding of "civil or administrative" attributes, and the key to dispelling the problem is to properly analyze its contract attributes.Combined with the analysis of "two-order theory" and its application of localization, the contract has the mixed nature of two-stage, that is, the signing of the contract as a boundary, the first stage is the land transfer administrative license stage belongs to the nature of public law,the second stage is the contract signing performance phase is essentially private law nature.Based on this, after feasibility analysis and case test, the mixed relief mode of "administrative relief and civil relief" is initially constructed, which avoids the imbalance of the single relief mode in the protection of rights and interests.In addition, "the second phase is fully integrated into civil relief" should be amended to "identify the elements of its public law", that is, "administrative sanctions for the supervision of contract performance" should be incorporated into administrative relief.
Literature and Arts
Hongloumeng Translation Studies: the Hotspots,Existing Problems and Reflections
CHEN Gong, CHEN Ying
2019, 35(4): 104-111.
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This study aims to explore the progress and hotspots of Hongloumeng translation study in China between 2002 and 2017,and tries to provide suggestions for future researches.By using bibliometric method with the aid of visualizing tool CiteSpace, the study reports the statistics of publication, citation, author, institution and keywords of Hongloumeng translation studies,and makes careful analysis on related literature based on the mapping knowledge networks.The results show that the study of Hongloumeng translation is in the stage of vigorous development,which mainly focuses on the English versions of Hongloumeng and the translation strategies in the aspect of culture and literary translation.Core researchers have emerged in this field, but they have not yet formed a core group, and the interdisciplinary cooperation is rare.
The Status,Problems and Prospect of Translation Technology Studies
LI Han-ji, CHEN Hai-qing
2019, 35(4): 112-118.
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In view of the trend of "technological turn" in translation practice, this paper first reviews the current status of translation technology at home and abroad, and finds that the current research focuses on the following aspects, such as the technical dimension of translation technology, the relationship between translation technology and translator, and the relationship between translation technology and society, and then points out the problems.Finally, it points out that reflecting on translation technology from a philosophical perspective is undoubtedly of great significance to future research.