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Abstract: This paper utilized Cooper’s accounting scheme to analyze the policy of “the Project of Protecting Chinese Language Resources” or Yubao (中国语言资源保护工程 or 语保) to date. We suggest that the project has achieved outstanding effect on preserving Chinese regional varieties, while further work on living language protection and cultural inheritance is still in progress. In order to further implement the language protection project, we contend that: (1) humans are at the core of the linguistic ecosystem, and each element is not isolated or static; (2) “the Scientific Protection of the Language and Characters of All Nationalities” can synchronize with “the Promotion of the National Common Language”. The key lies in scientifically devising the functional division of different languages and dialects. In the recent decades, rapid economic and social development has weakened the communicative function of local dialects and, to some extent, affected the prestige and the cultures they represent. It is advocated that public confidence in local culture should be boosted through balancing regional economy and developing distinctive cultures, so that citizens can spontaneously become a living force in the inheritance of their mother tongue and culture.Abstract: This paper utilized Cooper’s accounting scheme to analyze the policy of “the Project of Protecting Chinese Language Resources” or Yubao (中国语言资源保护工程 or 语保) to date. We suggest that the project has achieved outstanding effect on preserving Chinese regional varieties, while further work on living language protection and cultural inheritance is still i...Learn More
Abstract: Transitivity theory is a semantic system under the conceptual function put forward by Halliday, which expresses people’s experience and inner feelings through six processes, namely material process, mental process, relational process, behavioral process, verbal process and existential process. Thus, transitivity theory can provide a new perspective for discourse analysis. Based on the transitivity theory, this paper compares and analyzes two English versions of Riverside Town•A Dream of the Night of the 20th Day of the 1st Moon 1075 English — Xu Yuanchong’s and Burton Waston’s. By comparing the differences and similarities of the process types in each clause chosen by translators, the paper hopes to further help readers understand the main idea and language characteristics of the ancient poetry, and confirms the guiding function of transitivity theory in poetry translation practice. The comparison shows that Xu’s version is more flexible, which not only follows the transitivity process of the original text, but also deeply depicts the poet’s grief for his dead wife. As a foreign translator, Burton tends to take literal translation. But there is no doubt that both translations are excellent. At the same time, the author also believes that transitivity theory is operable in poetry translation.Abstract: Transitivity theory is a semantic system under the conceptual function put forward by Halliday, which expresses people’s experience and inner feelings through six processes, namely material process, mental process, relational process, behavioral process, verbal process and existential process. Thus, transitivity theory can provide a new perspective...Learn More
Abstract: In order to understand the research status, writing problems and relevant strategies of English abstract of Chinese journals, this thesis takes English abstract as research object and CNKI database as the data source for collecting the related papers form core journals (including PKU and CSSCI) in 1993-2000 through literature data method. Meanwhile, through statistical and classified method, this thesis analyse the collected articles. The results shows as the following: (1) the research status: based on CNKI database, the research results of English abstract are remarkable, but the number of published papers revels a wavy downward trend, which shows the research scope of English abstract needs to be further expanded and the research content needs to be further explored; the related journals are various, taking medical, publishing and editing journals as the main kinds, which shows the current research field is mainly related to the publishing industry, so the research field needs to be further expanded; the research corpus is diversified, taking medical corpus as the main, which shows the current research corpus is simple and needs to be diversified; (2) writing problems: the writing problems of English abstract refer to the text aspects, such as morphology, syntax, grammar, voice, text and structure, etc; (3) strategies: the strategies can be studied from objective aspect (translation skills) and subjective aspect (writer, editor and related tools). Finally, this thesis proposes some suggestions about research field, research method and research content of Chinese journals of English abstract.Abstract: In order to understand the research status, writing problems and relevant strategies of English abstract of Chinese journals, this thesis takes English abstract as research object and CNKI database as the data source for collecting the related papers form core journals (including PKU and CSSCI) in 1993-2000 through literature data method. Meanwhile...Learn More
Abstract: The current paper carries out a study on the occurrence of de in multiple-modifier constructions, aiming to provide an account from the perspective of generative grammar. Based on the semantic relationships between their attributives, this paper divides the relevant construction into different types, i.e., multiple-modifier constructions are classified into coordinate structures and progressive structures, and demonstrates that they are distinct in the distribution and occurrence of de. The framework of multi-layer DeP hypothesis is taken in to explain the construction and derivation of multiple-modifier constructions. The de in multiple-modifier constructions is viewed as a grammatical marker that signifies information focus, and trigger attributives raising to check its [+Foc] feature. Multi-de occurs only to convey specific pragmatic functions, and different modifying relations constrain the focus’ checking, resulting in different occurrence of de in the relevant constructions. This paper provides a new approach to the depiction of the internal structure of the multiple modifier-head construction and the explanation of the occurrence of de in the construction.Abstract: The current paper carries out a study on the occurrence of de in multiple-modifier constructions, aiming to provide an account from the perspective of generative grammar. Based on the semantic relationships between their attributives, this paper divides the relevant construction into different types, i.e., multiple-modifier constructions are classi...Learn More
Abstract: The study discusses the syntactic derivation mechanism of verb gapping in Mandarin Chinese, which exists in the second conjunct of the construction. First, the paper introduces Mandarin Chinese lacks the canonical English-like verb gapping construction based on previous studies, in that verb gapping in Chinese is allowed only in non-generic VPs, may not be paired with an antecedent in the adjacent conjunct, and could appear in a subordinate construction. Second, different from the widely discussed across-the-board (ATB) movement or the VP-ellipsis analysis in the canonical English verb gapping construction, or the verb raising or verb ellipsis in the Chinese verb gapping structure, this study adopts that verb gaps in Mandarin Chinese are actually multiple fragments of the construction. The object-NP in the target gapping clause is proposed to undergo focalization, within the sentential (IP)-internal domain. Following the VP-internal subject hypothesis, the subject-NP then moves from Spec-vP to Spec-IP, motivated by EPP-feature for left peripheries. The remnant constituent vP is hypothesized with deletion at the PF-interface, giving rise to the surface “Subject-NP + Object-NP” order. If the direction of the assumption is acceptable, the proposal of focalization in the sentence-internal domain once again empirically confirms the ‘parallelism’/‘identity’ between multiple fragment clauses in the gapping construction in Mandarin Chinese.Abstract: The study discusses the syntactic derivation mechanism of verb gapping in Mandarin Chinese, which exists in the second conjunct of the construction. First, the paper introduces Mandarin Chinese lacks the canonical English-like verb gapping construction based on previous studies, in that verb gapping in Chinese is allowed only in non-generic VPs, ma...Learn More
