Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities

Session: Language and Literature

19 articles
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The Absence of the Rose The Symbolic Meaning of "Rose" in William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily

Fanting Kong
A Rose for Emily is William Faulkner's typical short novel. It is a story without rose. "Rose" has very deep symbolic meanings in the novel. It connects with the theme and characteristics of the heroine closely. This paper tries to analyze the symbolic meanings of the rose and disclose the inevitable...
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A Study of Input in Teaching English for Special Purposes (ESP) Based on Multimodal Discourse

Zhaojun Chen
ESP is an inevitable trend of College English Teaching. Traditional language teaching methods become unsuitable for cultivating students' communicative competence of ESP, while theories about multimodal discourse and language input are in association with ESP teaching so that various modes are cooperated,...
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The Cultural Implications and Differences of Animal Vocabulary in English and Chinese

Siming Li
In the long civilization of human history, animals are closely connected with human beings and have profound effect on survival and development of human beings. The intimate relationship makes people form complex attitudes towards different animals, such as love, sympathy, disgust and fear, etc. People...
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On the Postcolonial Hybridity Theory in Translation Studies

Ying Li
Since the coming of the deconstructionism and the "cultural turn" in translation studies, many approaches of translation studies have mushroomed, the hybridity theory in the light of post-colonialist studies has attracted more and more translation scholars. Hybridity theory, aiming to deconstruct and...
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Paradox of the Ethos and Literary Creation A Comparative Study of Mo Yan and Herta M?Ller under the Vision of Nobel Prize in Literature

Zhichun Zhu, Yanmei Kong
After Herta Muller won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature and Mo Yan won the 2012 Nobel Prizefor Literature winner, these two writers have attracted a lot of controversy. The controversy focused on narrow nationality on literary content performance and political themes. Nationality is the essence of...
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Study on Postmodernism Nabokov's Literature under Chinese Cross-border Perspective

Yanmei Kong, Zhichun Zhu
Vladimir Nabokov was the greatest bilingual writer of the 20th century. China's Nabokov research has experienced three stages include the germination in 1980s, Translation heat in 1990s and the climax with the "Lolita heat" at the beginning of the 21st century. Compared with abroad Nabokov study, China's...
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Linguistic Hybridity in the Poetry Translation of Hong Lou Meng

Ying Li
Hong Lou Meng is regarded as one of the "Four Great Classical Chinese Novels", and there have been many translated versions of Hong Lou Meng. Hybridity theory claims that all the translated versions are hybrid texts. The paper aims to investigate the linguistic hybridity phenomenon of the poetry translation...
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Pragmatics Function of Euphemism in Communication

Xianhua Meng
Euphemism is a kind of effective language form used in communication, which aimed to produce reasonable communicative effect. In this paper, the culture features of euphemism are explored. The author also used a lot of effective examples to explain the pragmatic functions of euphemism in communication....
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Analysis on Types of New Abbreviations of Russian after Collapse of the Soviet Union

Guojiang Qi
The collapse of the Soviet Union has a history of more than twenty years. The contemporary Russian society is changing dramatically. In scientific language, political comment language and official document communication, new abbreviations are used more widely. Nowadays, abbreviation formed by shortening...
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"Mono-no-aware " in Two Cities A Study of Kawabata Yasunari and Zhu Tianxin's Namesake Novel "The Ancient Capital"

Ning Li
Zhu Tianxin is a famous contemporary female writer in Taiwan. Her novel with the same title as the masterpiece of Kawabata Yasunari's, "The Ancient Capital" which was created at the end of 1990s also made a great flutter in the literary world. For the theme of the novel, it is deeply influenced by the...
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Discussion on Importance and Entry Point of Imitation Writing in Composition Instruction

Jincheng Huang, Shuhong Li
Imitation writing is an important means in composition instruction. One can faster get unique writing techniques of classical works of master through imitation writing. But because some teachers and young students do not fully realize its importance and all kinds of new technology and new trend of thought...
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Research on Teaching Reform of Stamping Process and Die Design

Zengsheng Wang, Hansong Yang, Guohua Mu
With characteristics of the course "Stamping Process and Die Design" and problems existing in teaching using traditional method, reform measures taken by some colleges are discussed in this paper, including teaching content, teaching material, teaching mode, teaching method, teaching resources and information-based...
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A Functionalist Analysis of the Film Subtitle Translation A Case Study of "The Flowers of War"

Yapeng Song
With the rapid development of economy and culture, the cultural communication in the world is increasing. Nowadays film is an important way of cultural communication and entertainment. Plenty of foreign films appear in China, meanwhile a wealth of Chinese films roll in the world film market and gain...
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Research on Mo Yan's Novel under the Perspective of Nobel Prize in literature

Ping Li, Yu Zheng, Zhichun Zhu
Mo Yan, a Chinese writer, won the 2012 Nobel Prize in literature. The committee said, Mo Yan "combined magic realism and folklore, history and contemporary society together", which was good news. Mo Yan built a unique subjective world of feelings. His abstract narrative and unfamiliar process constituted...
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Ezra Pound's Version of Shijing Translation

Hao Zhang
It is a vexed question in translatology field that whether poetry is translatable. People said that translating is pronouncing sentence of death on understanding and some wiseacre has said that translating is just like the back of a Turkey tapestry. This thesis applies the principles of correspondence...
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Comparison of Social Status of British and Chinese Women in the Era of Pride and Prejudice

Lu Chen
Pride and Prejudice is masterpiece of feministic literature as well as representative work that fully reflects awakening of feminist consciousness and social status of women in British society in the 18th and 19th centuries. The reality of marriage and love of ladies in this book can fully show social...
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The Retrospect and the Prospect of a Research on Pronouns in Excavated Materials of the Warring States

Yanmei Zhang, Yujin Zhang, Han Ding
Nowadays, the grammatical study in excavated materials has been attracting more attention of scholars. This article, based on the differences of the corpus of researchers, reviews the studies according to pronouns in Excavated Materials of the Warring States from four aspects: grammar and pronouns study...
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Why the Emperor Qin Shi Huang Took "ZHEN" as the First Exclusive Person Pronoun of the Emperors

Yanmei Zhang, Han Ding, Lingzhi Zhang, Yongping Luo
This article gives a brief introduction to relevant discussions from writings of domestic China of the issue that why the emperor Qin Shi Huang took "ZHEN" as the first exclusive person pronoun of the emperors. Meanwhile, it indicates the most fundamental and essential reason is that, starting from the...
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The Study of Sustainable Logic Running in "Songs of Bu Luo Tuo" of Zhuang Ethnic Minority

Qianwei Jin
Subjects of Zhuang creation show their brilliance in the creation of Songs of Bu Luo Tuo. The text with the properties of nature worship, totem worship, ancestor worship shapes the universal ancestor god Buluotuo becoming the spirit of ethnic members of solidarity and coordination of actions. It reflects...