2020 Vol. 36, No. 1

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Disciplinary Nature of Ecolinguistics and Ecostylistics: An Interview with Professor Andrew Goatly
HE Wei, Andrew Goatly
2020, 36(1): 1-7.
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This paper is an interview with Andrew Goatly, who is honorary professor of English College at Lingnan University.His research interests include eco-critical discourse analysis, metaphor, stylistics, language humour, etc.He has such representative works as The Language of Metaphors, Washing the Brain:Metaphor and Hidden Ideology, Explorations in Stylistics, and Meaning and Humour.This interview involves issues about the disciplinary nature of ecolinguistics, "green grammar", ecostylistics, etc.
New Model of Ecolinguistics: Radical Ecolinguistics—An Interview with Professor Stephen Cowley
WEI Rong, Stephen Cowley
2020, 36(1): 8-12.
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This paper is an interview with Stephen Cowley, who is a professor of department of language and communication at University of Southern Denmark.He is one of founders of Distributed Language Group, secretary general of International Society for the Study of Interactivity, Language and Cognition, initiator of Distributed Language Movement Bio-ecological Awareness.He has such representative books as Biosemiotic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, Cognition Beyond the Brain:Computation, Interactivity and Human Artifice, and Distributed Language.This interview involves questions regarding the disciplinary nature of ecolinguistics, radical ecolinguistics, and so on.
A Four-dimension Study on the System of English Translation Strategies for Qing Yu An by Xin Qiji
JI Yang, WEN Jun
2020, 36(1): 13-21.
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Based on the system of strategies in the English translations of classical Chinese poetry, the paper studies its adaptability to Xin Qiji's song lyrics from four perspectives of Linguistic Variety, Formal Diversification, Intratextual Translation and Paratranslation as Textual Expansion, through a case study of Qing Yu An's English versions.
Metadiscourse Studies in the Past Three Decades: Development, Problems and Prospect
HE Zhong-qing, YAN Yu-fei
2020, 36(1): 22-29.
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In recent years, the theoretical studies of metadiscourse from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics have been in full swing.At the same time, a trend has gradually emerged towards multi-perspective and interdisciplinary metadiscourse studies.However, the present literature mainly focuses upon the classification, research paradigms and background theories of metadiscourse, with the problems and prospect of metadiscourse research being largely neglected.This paper reviews the development of metadiscourse research at home and abroad in the past three decades(1989-2019), with an aim of clarifying the development of metadiscourse studies in both theoretical and applied fields.On the basis of this, this study discusses the potential problems in the current studies and the prospect of the future development in metadiscourse studies.
Title Translation in the Perspective of Re-instantiation: With the Examples in Xi Jinping: The Governance of China
ZHAO Jing
2020, 36(1): 30-38.
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Based on systemic functional linguistics, translation can be regarded as source-text meaning oriented re-instantiation.By analyzing 213 examples of title translation in Xi Jinping's The Governance of China, this paper explores how the meaning of the target discourse is reconstructed in the process of re-instantiation.It is found that the translators have employed certain translation strategies and techniques to re-construct the meaning and re-generate the discourse, including regulating commitment, adjusting appraisal meanings, omitting rhetorical devices, and shifting coupling patterns.Highlighting the target readers' awareness, the translators choose appropriate lexical and grammatical expressions to conform to the linguistic norms and features of the target language, and accomplish interlingual re-instantiation.All the shifts and transformations in this process are aimed to improve the acceptance of the translation in the target readers and aid its smooth international communication.
Five Dimensions of Cognitive Linguistics Research in the Context of New Liberal Arts
WEI Chen
2020, 36(1): 39-50.
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The construction of New Liberal Arts emphasizes its features of integration, openness, and technology.It is necessary to interpret Cognitive Linguistics research from the following five dimensions in the context of New Liberal Arts.From the point of subject dimension, Cognitive Linguistics research is mainly featured by the quest for deepening the depth of research topics, its interdisciplinary integration and its integration with technology.From the diachronic point of view, the key topics of current researches are the necessary results of diachronic evolution:the continuation, change, or development of the previous topics.From the point of technology dimension, the consistent application of latest technologies into Cognitive Linguistics researches not only strengthens the interactive relation of language and cognition, but also tries to discover the cognitive mechanism of the understanding and the generation of language in the brain.From the point of times, New Cognitive Linguistics research is the product of the great changes of the times and humanities crisis of current linguistic researches.From the point of China, New Cognitive Linguistics research is an inevitable requirement for the construction of subject system with Chinese characteristics, discourse system, and academic community.The above five dimensions might fully demonstrate the landscape of the New Cognitive Linguistics at the present times.This thesis might offer the reference value for the promotion of the understanding of attribution of New Liberal Arts, and the construction of integration model of Cognitive Linguistics research.
Engineering Education Model for Innovation of Engineering Science and Technology: Enlightenment of Charles Sturt University in Australia
LÜ Ying, WEI Li-na, DENG Yong-xin, WANG Dan
2020, 36(1): 51-56.
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The innovation of engineering science and technology may lead to a whole new industry and shape or even change the world.The engineering education plays an important role in the colleges and universities of science and technology.Along with a new round of scientific, technological and industrial revolution, the rise of artificial intelligence and big data has brought new challenges to engineering education including the concept of education, course design and teaching model.The reform in engineering education has become the one of the hot spot in higher education reform and many policies have been complimented to meet the requirement of modern education around the world.In this paper, based on the structured analysis, we report the concept of education, course design and teaching model of Charles Sturt University in Australia, one of the"emerging leaders" in engineering education.Four suggestions and measures are provided as references for reform of engineering education in the future.
The Impact of Internet Embedding and Social Initiative on the Social Network of Returning Entrepreneurs
HUANG Mei-jiao, LI Zhong-bing
2020, 36(1): 57-64.
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Rebuilding social networks is the key to obtain entrepreneurial information and resources for returning entrepreneurs.This paper explores the impact of the degree of Internet embedding and social initiative on the social network of returning entrepreneurs, using returning entrepreneurs' social initiative as the moderator, building a conceptual model.Based on a sample of 225 returning entrepreneurs, this paper has an empirical test.The results show that:the higher of the degree of internet connection, matching, and social initiative of returning entrepreneurs, the more they will promote the expansion of social networks and the maintenance of network relationships, but the internet's sense of sacrifice will have a negative effect on the social networks of returning entrepreneurs;social initiative plays a positive regulatory role between internet embedding and social networks.
Skepticism, Subjectivity and Other Themes—Philosophical Perspective in Sun Yu's Research on Lu Xun
FAN Yang-yang
2020, 36(1): 65-72.
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Philosophical perspective is an early and long-lasting part in Sun Yu's study on Lu Xun.He creatively compares Lu Xun and Kant, pointing out they are similar in underlining the limitation of cognition.Sun Yu emphasizes skepticism as Lu Xun's core thought, and its significance in cultural history.He deeply interprets Lu Xun's thought and works, by means of the thought of"subjectivity".He also stresses that traditional"master-slave" culture is the barrier of"inter-subjectivity".Above all, the use of philosophical perspective in Sun Yu's study, is not pure knowledge production, on the contrary, is full of vitality and academic value.
Economics
Tax Influence on Industrial Development—the Empirical Test of Corporate Income Tax and Corporate Sales Revenue
FENG Fei-peng, BIAN Zi-quan
2020, 36(1): 73-86.
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Government's tax has an important impact on industrial development, but few empirical studies provide empirical evidence on the impact of corporate income tax on industrial development.Hence, the relationship between enterprise income tax and the growth rate of enterprise sales income, using the sample of A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen during the 12th Five-Year Plan period(2011-2015), will be studied to test the potential effect of government economic measures on industrial development.Statistical tests show that the increase of tax burden has an inhibiting effect on the growth rate of sales revenue;and higher tax burden has a higher inhibiting effect than lower tax burden.Besides, the inhibiting effect on lower revenue enterprises is stronger than higher revenue enterprises.Further research showes that the possible channels of inhibiting the growth rate of sales revenue are presented as follow:when the tax burden increases, the growth rate of sales revenue of products(projects)with the largest proportion is substantially affected by the increase of tax burden, and the growth rate of sales revenue of products(projects)with the largest proportion substantially affects the overall growth rate of sales revenue of enterprises.The growth rate, through the interaction between the increase of tax burden and the growth rate of the products(projects)sales revenue of with the largest proportion, will have a inhibiting effect on the overall growth rate of sales revenue of the enterprise.The new insights and empirical evidence are provided for government decision-making departments to deal with the relationship between tax revenue and industrial development.
Research on the Motivation of Online Customers'Reviews Based on SET and TAM
JIANG Lin
2020, 36(1): 87-94.
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Based on SET and TAM, this paper constructs the influencing factor model of the motivation of consumers' online comments from the perspective of the social psychology and technology.Utilizing Amos 22.0 software, this paper adopts maximum likelihood estimation method to study the effects of perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, economic rewards, emotional sharing, review cost, perceived pleasure on the motivation of consumers' online comments.The results show that the perceived usefulness, economic rewards, emotional sharing significantly affect the willingness of consumers to comment online while review cost plays a negative role, and perceived pleasure has no significant effect on it.In addition, perceived ease of use has no significant effect on the consumers' online comment intention, but it has significant effect on perceived usefulness.Indepth discussion of the motivation behind consumers' online reviews and solving the objective problem of consumers' low willingness to comment online have great practical significance to the long-term development of the Internet economy.
History
From Loyalty to Support for the Republic: Feng Kuochang in 1911
XIONG Qun-rong
2020, 36(1): 95-103.
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After the outbreak of theWuchang Uprising, the political forces of all parties competed fiercely and fought against each other.The political situation was unpredictable.As a core member of the Peiyang Group, Feng Kuochang was a figure that could not be ignored in this political changes.On the front line of Wuhan, Feng Kuochang used force to suppress the revolutionary army and once opposed Yuan Shikai's North-South peace talks.With the changes in the current situation, Feng Kuochang's thoughts had also undergone a huge transformation from the main battle to the search for peace, and he had helped Yuan Shikai stabilize the political situation in the North and contributed to the realization of the Xinhai Peace Bureau.In the evolution of the Xinhai political situation, Feng Kuochang's attitude toward the Qing court, Yuan Shikai, and the revolutionaries had changed, reflected the complexity of individual choices in the Great Change Bureau.
Literature and Arts
Reproduction of the Poetic Features of Culture in the Translated Version of Ruined City Based on Cultural Poetics
CHE Ming-ming
2020, 36(1): 104-111.
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As an important contemporary theory of literary criticism, "Cultural Poetics" is aimed at excavating the cultural identity and poetic features of a literary work and is conducive to exhibiting its spiritual outlook from both inside and outside of a text, thus providing a valuable perspective for literary translation.By way of appreciating and reviewing Goldblatt's translated version of Ruined City based on cultural poetics, the present paper is entitled to the characteristics of interdisciplinary thinking and prominent innovation of research, which is why it is effective in revealing the complexity, richness and artistic appeal of this great literary work of Jia Pingwa, and in broadening the thinking and academic space of translatology as well.It is held in the paper that, in the translation process, only by adhering to the ideology of cultural poetics, will it be likely to reproduce the aesthetic nature, the cultural identity and the poetic features of the original work.
A Study of the Relationship between the Local Governor and the Local Literary Ecology in the Tang Dynasty
YANG Yu-feng
2020, 36(1): 112-118.
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In the Tang Dynasty, most of the local governors were literati who came from the imperial examinations.When the literati work in local area, they not only moved from the government to the countryside, but also spread the literature.Therefore, the relationship between local governors and literature can be studied from two aspects:the creation of local governor and the construction of local cultural ecology.In the selection process of local governors, literary ability is one of the factors considered by the court.The exchange between central government posts and local governors is also an important criterion for officials selection and appointment.Local governors play a great role in the construction of local cultural ecology.First of all, in the process of administration, local governors carry out the national cultural and educational policies concretely, which has great influence and direct decision-making power on local scholars' study and official progress.Secondly, some local governors themselves are accomplished writers.When they take part in the literary activities of the prefecture, they attract and agglomerate a large number of literati and enrich the literary world scene.Thirdly, as the governor's governor, he chanted the landscape and scenery of the local prefectures with poems to publicize the reputation of the prefectures, thereby completing the promotion of classics and literariness.At the same time of shaping the local cultural ecology, the local governors also achieved his own achievements and literary names.