2020 Vol. 36, No. 5

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The Pragmatic Functions and Syntactic Features of Suo(所)-construction in Modern Chinese
FU Yi-qin, ZHAO Jia-dong
2020, 36(5): 1-8.
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Suo(所)-construction has been frequently used in modern Chinese.Compared with Suo-construction in ancient Chinese,it has some different features in syntax and pragmatics. Suo(所)in modern Chinese has identifiability, inclusivity and evaluation functions.On syntactic collocation, Suo(所)is usually followed by mental verbs, sensory verbs, get-category verbs, experience-category verbs and generate-category.When Suo-construction serves as subject and object, shi(是)-verb usually served as predicate head in the sentence.when Suo -construction serves as a prepositional object, the prepositions are usually with such semantic meanings as comparison or disposition.
A Scientometric Review of International and Domestic Metadiscourse Research Using CiteSpace
ZHANG Dan-dan, ZHANG Jing-yuan
2020, 36(5): 9-16.
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Metadiscourse is an important means for speakers and listeners, or writers and readers, to interact through spoken or written discourse.As an established concept, metadiscourse continues to attract researchers in applied linguistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis.Using CiteSpace, this study presents a scientometric analysis of international and domestic metadiscourse research in an attempt to reveal the trajectory of its development and the latest research findings.The results show that currently China's metadiscourse research is developing as quickly as international metadiscourse research; metadiscourse research is divided into two models:Interpersonal and Reflective; the most studied areas include academic English, discourse markers, and second language writing.The trends of metadiscourse research are also discussed.
The New-media Communication of the Medical Scientific Popularization Discourse—From CGA Perspective
WANG Qin
2020, 36(5): 17-24.
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Building a small-scale corpus consisting of 72 electronic texts from Wechat public account of several public hospitals, the present study conducts a multi-perspective and multi-dimensional investigation of the medical scientific popularization discourse based on the theoretical framework of CGA and MDA, in order to gain a keen insight into the professional practice and professional culture of medical science.This study is expected to shed light on the new media discourse communication and professional communication research.
Lexical Density and Its Fluctuation: A Study on Multiple English Translations of the Analects of Confucius
WU Guo-xiang
2020, 36(5): 25-32,42.
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Lexical density in translation (translation LD hereafter)is defined as the average number of English words that have been used to translate one classical Chinese clause.First, translation LD is defined with the external reference to the Chinese original text.Since the definition is not confined by the internal lexical system or grammatical structure of the English language,there is no need to distinguish between content words and function words.Secondly, translation LD can be used to analyse translated clause complexes, translated chapters and whole translated versions, so that different styles of translation are demonstrated.Thirdly, Pound's and Ku's English translations of the Analects of Confucius establish an interval of translation LD, that is,[5.91, 9.13], within which existing English translations of the Analects actually fluctuate.This interval redefines the range of multiple English translations of the Analects and even that of English translation of Chinese classics as a whole.
A Study of Hotspots and Trends in International Language Policy and Planning Research in the Last Decade: A Visualized Overview Based on the Scopus Database
DAI Feng-ju, LIU Cheng-yu
2020, 36(5): 33-42.
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Language policy and planning is one of the key research topics in sociolinguistics.Based on CiteSpace5.5.R2, this study analyzed 2025 original articles and conference papers on language policy and planning published between 2010 and 2019.The data were collected from the Scopus database.With an aim to clarify the development of this field and illuminate its research frontier in the past decade, this study examined key words co-occurrence, the most cited journals, the most cited literature, and the distribution of the most productive countries/regions and institutions.The results show that in the last decade,this field has presented an unbalanced development trend in terms of national/regional distribution.Contrastively, the distribution of research institutions of various regions is relatively balanced.Besides, multiple research hotspots have emerged, including language education, multilingualism, and so on.Moreover, in view of research trends, the focus of this field has gradually shifted to the micro level.
Research on the Discourse Mode of “HAI NP NE” from the Perspective of Speakers' Attitudes
WANG Xin
2020, 36(5): 43-49.
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Based on the speaker's attitude, this article studies the discourse mode of the "HAI NP NE"."HAI NP NE" is a common form in daily conversations, expressing the rich attitude of the speaker, such as disdain, appreciation and praise, surprise and helplessness, etc.There are certain cognitive reasons and pragmatic factors behind these rich attitude.In addition,through the investigation of the corpus, it is found that there is a certain rule of the discourse mode coexisting with "HAI NP NE".Specifically, "HAI NP NE" has some relevance of affairs with the following passages.Under the stimulus of the actual context (this stimulus is usually closely related to the speaker's attitude),this association is activated and responds to the stimulus in the situation, thereby generating a discourse mode with a certain degree of correlation with "HAI NP NE", including the discourse component co-occurring with "HAI NP NE" and the context in which the "HAI NP NE" construction appears.
The Conflict and Cooperation of Intergenerational Care—Based on the Content Analysis of the Parenting Module of Small Wood Worm Discussion Forum
YUAN Tong-cheng
2020, 36(5): 50-57.
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In the context of individualization, as child care requires a lot of time and energy, it inevitably leads to the reduction of caregivers' ability to "live for themselves".Through the content analysis of the parenting module of the Small Wood Worm discussion forum, the research finds that for the professional and technical personnel just starting work not long ago, they and their father generation both have the desire to "live for themselves", but its realization is limited by both resources and Confucian culture.If "children generation live unilaterally for themselves", "old people live unilaterally for themselves" or"they use different ways to live for children" while sharing child-rearing responsibilities,there will be intergenerational conflicts inevitably.If children generation and parents can change from "living for themselves" to "living for us", a good intergenerational relationship can be estalished.This "living for us" shift may be based on an emotional foundation that "blood is thicker than water", the expectation of reciprocity between child-rearing and the elderly supporting afterwards, or just on account of not having adequate child-rearing resources.As the responsibility of parenting is also a kind of life politics, and the insufficient responsibility taking of subjects outside the family will inevitably squeeze the space for family members to choose their lifestyle,the state and other social subjects should share more burden of child care, thus reducing the burden of family members, to increase their capacity to choose more colorful life style and promote family development.
Consumers' Motivations and Segmentations in Participating Online Product Reviews
YAO Qing, DING Si-yu, LIU Jie
2020, 36(5): 58-66.
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Taking the online shopping consumers as the research subjects and using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, we investigate consumer motivations of writing online product reviews.We also use cluster analysis to segment consumers based on their review motivations.Our results show that consumer motivations of delivering online product reviews include seeking social interactions, providing help to others, perusing self-enhancement, protecting appropriate rights and venting negative emotions.Based on these motivational categorizing, consumers can be divided into five segments, i.e., ones that value social interactions, reputation, self-relevance, rationality and altruism.
Law
On Protection of Shareholders' Term Interest: Based on Article 6 of the Summary of Civil and Commercial Judicial Work of National Courts
LIANG Ze-yu
2020, 36(5): 67-73.
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The Supreme People's court stipulates that shareholders are vested term interest for the undue capital contribution.This article points out that, after the reform of the full subscription, the signal function and guarantee function of registered capital have become void and creditors no longer appraise the company's solvency in accordance with the registered capital.In addition, protection mechanisms for creditors, such as guarantee, are widely used, and the smoothness of bankruptcy proceedings is constantly improving.Thus, non-accelerated-expiration are able to protect the term interests of shareholders, and, at the same time, do not excessively damage the interests of creditors.The interpretative course adopted by Supreme People's court could be summarized as the Theory of Legal Guidance.Since the company law clearly authorizes the duration of capital contribution to be agreed by the shareholders and the parties themselves, the creditors have the obligation to review the provisions concerning the duration of capital contribution in the articles of associations and shall not infringe the shareholders' term interest.
Research on the Legal System of Horizontal Government Coordination in Cross Regional Public Emergencies
ZHOU Zhi-bo
2020, 36(5): 74-83.
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Cross regional public emergency is a new type of public crisis, and improving the horizontal government coordination legal system is the basic way to deal with the cross regional public emergencies in the future.At present, there are some problems in the governance of cross regional public emergencies, such as the relatively weak concept of emergency, the dispersion of emergency subjects, and the fragmentation of emergency resources.Among them, the root cause is insufficient legal supply,it is mainly manifested in the following aspects:the coordination mechanism between governments is not perfect, the effectiveness of emergency agreement is not perfect, the resource sharing mechanism is not smooth, and the interest compensation mechanism is not mature.Based on this, the state must strengthen the supply of legal system around the emergency response law, give local governments the right to coordinate in legislation and clarify the operating rules of intergovernmental coordination agencies; strengthen the construction of good faith and equal consultation, give the emergency agreement legal effect; improve the sharing mode of emergency resources among governments, and establish a cross regional resource collaborative allocation and emergency information sharing mechanism; respect the autonomy of the assistance subject, through the job assistance cost mechanism and the cross-regional emergency financial transfer payment mechanism to ensure the initiative and fairness of intergovernmental emergency assistance.
The Trial Avoidance Effect of Guilty Plea
CHI Da-kui
2020, 36(5): 84-90,97.
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This paper adopts normative analysis method to study the procedural effect of guilty plea.The concept of "guilty plea" in Chinese context has two meanings, including guilty confession and guilty plea.The procedural effect of a guilty plea is to avoid trial, whereas a guilty confession can only simplify the trial.In other words, whether "admission charge" will have the legal effect of evading trial directly determines whether there is a true guilty plea in our country, and the procedure of quick adjudication is a typical example of evading trial.The way to avoid the trial is to obtain the guilty plea through the negotiation procedure, solve the conviction and sentencing, eliminate the dispute points, and finally ensure the binding force of the guilty plea agreement on the judge.Circumvention trial follows an efficiency-oriented approach of consequentialism, that is, although circumvention of trial, it should achieve the same effect as trial, so as to establish a new balance between crime control and due process in the criminal justice system.
Polotics
On the Diversified Construction of the New Rural Community Epidemic Prevention and Control Subjects in the Perspective of Modernization of Governance
HUANG Lei
2020, 36(5): 91-97.
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The new rural community governance is not only an important part of the modernization of rural governance in China,but also a key link to promote the modernization of national governance system and governance capacity.Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the new rural community epidemic prevention and control is a very important "last kilometer" line of defense.In the context of modernization of governance, to strengthen the prevention and control of epidemic situation in new rural communities, we must firmly establish the idea of "people-centered", strengthen the leadership of Party building, give full play to the role of township governments, and build a new network system of information-based epidemic prevention and control in rural communities.The construction of the new rural community epidemic prevention and control system is of great significance not only to promote the modernization of the new rural community governance system and governance capacity, but also to promote the modernization of national governance system and governance capacity.
International Cooperationon the Governance of Infectious Diseases: History, Reality and Future
LANG Shuai
2020, 36(5): 98-105.
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International cooperation is necessary for the governance of infectious diseases in the era of globalization.Since the middle of the 19th century, international cooperation of infectious diseases has gone through three stages:the rise and preliminary exploration from 1851 to 1947, the integration and rapid development from 1948 to 2002, and the reform and structural adjustment from 2003 to the present.At present, it still faces many challenges, such as the "non-cooperation problem" at the unit level, the "cost-bearing problem" of international public goods, the "South-North gap" in national governance capacity,the "cognitive dilemma" at the conceptual level.In the future, efforts should be made to deepen the reform of the mechanism to fully reflect the needs of emerging powers and developing countries; seize the key links and strive to build the core capabilities;rationalize various relationships and clarify the key directions; attach importance to case studies and disseminate successful experiences from the emerging powers.
Literature and Arts
A Review of The Travels of Lao Can in the English World
ZHANG Yi-hong
2020, 36(5): 106-112.
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In the English world, The Travels of Lao Can has undergone a variety of cross-cultural communication forms, such as English translation of works, general introduction in English works concerning Chinese literary history, and the English Research of the text.They work together to enhance the scope and reception of the works in the English world.The English translation of the novel provides readers and researchers in the English world with a direct text reading basis,while a brief introduction of the book in the English works concerning Chinese literary history helps the English world to have a preliminary understanding of the background and content of the novel.Both of them constitute an important link in the process of intercultural communication in the English-speaking world.The English study of The Travels of Lao Can provides an "other" perspective for the multiperspective interpretation of the work's ideological content and artistic achievements, which reflects the unique position of English researchers on the cross-cultural interpretation of the author and the novel and it is also an important embodiment of the gradual deepening of the spreading of the book in the English world.
O'Keeffe/Farley's Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp: Its Characteristics and Influence
ZHENG Hong-sheng
2020, 36(5): 113-120.
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John O'Keeffe/Charles Farley's Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp (1813)not only made the story of Aladdin and the magic lamp in The Arabian Nights successfully come to the London stage but also had a significant influence on subsequent adapted plays based on the same story.What was the success and influence of Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp (1813)。The following conclusions could be drawn through the method of historicism.This play had three characteristics that had made it popular:first, the spectacular display of Chinoiserie; second, Joseph Grimaldi's comic performance; third, the upholding of the companionate marriage that conformed to social progress.Its influence was manifested at least in the following two aspects.Firstly, Henry Byron's Aladdin, or, The Wonderful Scamp! (1861)inherited the three characteristics of Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp (1813).Secondly, Pollock Toy Theater used the abridged edition of Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp(1813)as its script.