Bulgarian differs from the other Slavic languages in that performatives are used in a somewhat wider range of tense-aspectual forms than the (always imperfective) present, which is the classic form for performative utterances in general. In fact, performatives occur in the analytical future, both perfective...

Richard Jefferies is a British writer well-known for his novel on the history, rural life and agriculture in the late Victorian England. His works, The Acorn-gather, through the lonely life and silent death of a little boy, accounts for the rigid social conventions and human tragedy of lower-strata people...

This paper takes enterprise website publicity-oriented Chinese-English translation of Jiangxi Province as an example to explore the cultural default compensation strategies to website Chinese-English translation, with a view to helping enterprises overcome cultural barriers, to bettering cross-cultural...

Semantic prosody is a kind of abnormal collocation in nature, and has been attached great importance to the definition and classification by researchers home and abroad. Based on data from BNC and LCMC, this paper tries to find the differences of basic color word in their lexical collocation and semantic...

The article presents an attempt to analyze the way by which such linguistic units as 'philosophy' and 'poetry' can reveal a shared philosophical potential in certain contexts which may be down to the similarity of semes. The authors resort to such means as componential and philosophical-hermeneutic methods...

The article is devoted to the analysis of communicative practices congruent with the socio-cultural type of the social system. The semantic scope of the concept of "communicative practices", their advantages, functions and structural components are discussed. The main purpose of the article is to reveal...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's unique gift was for the creation of strongly symbolic stories which touch the deepest roots of man's moral nature. The finest example is the recreation of The Scarlet Letter. It is a typical one of his ideal and artistic style and is regarded as the first American symbolic fiction,...

Using the theoretical framework of Verschueren's adaptation theory to explain the reasons behind all the codeswitching phenomena, this research aims to shed light on the codeswitching phenomena in Teoswa region. Through analyzing the codeswithing between Teochew, Cantonese and Mandarin in the speech...

Rhetoric is an art of linguistic performance. Using them properly can enhance the effect of expression, vividness, persuasiveness and appeal of language. There are a lot of elegant figures of speech in Once More to the Lake, the article will appreciate their usages from the perspective of phonetics,...

The paper first describes the rapid development of English as a lingua franca in the world. As an important means of communication, language is always in motion; the internationalization of English triggers the nativization of English across the world. The development of the English language all over...

Under the framework of Goldberg's Construction Grammar, this study analyses the "give" frequency, the preference of the patient argument and errors types with the help of quantitative approach and qualitative analysis. It aims at providing senior high school students with some methods to improve their...

The paper presents the research aimed at the identification of the similarities and differences in zoomorphic figurative comparisons existing to describe human appearance in the Bulgarian and Russian linguocultures. The research is based on the materials of lexicographic publications of B. Yanev , K....

Under the new situation, the put forth of "the Belt and Road" and the implementation of "going out" strategy, give Shaanxi literature a vigorous vitality. In 2011, the writing of overseas literature promotion program compiled the English version "short film collection of Shaanxi writers". In the process...

This paper is about the status of Kanbun Kundoku in the language contact among East Asian languages. From the discussion, we concluded that language contact can be in progress in different kinds of medium from the perspective of modern language contact study. Kanbun Kundoku on East Asian can be understood...

Weapons, magic and spells in Journey to the West not only play a crucial part in immortal-and-demon fights but also contain profound culture connotations which pose great difficulty to non-Chinese readers. This paper, by analyzing Jenner's English translation on weapons, magic and spells from the perspective...

The adjectives of ancient Chinese have always been the focused attention of scholars, but the related researches mainly focused on handed-down literatures, and paid little attention to unearthed literatures which are closer to the original appearance of Chinese language. Therefore, this article has reviewed...

The research of unearthed literature in warring states period has achieved a series of new developments and abundant outcomes by scholar in recent years. And this article made brief evaluations and prospects from explanations of Chinese characters, vocabulary arrangement, grammar research, interchangeable...

Along with the new tendency to apply the notion of narrative to all activities and disciplines, narrative theory, put forward by Mona Baker, provides us alternative understandings on Yan Fu's translation of Evolution and Ethics in Late Qing Dynasty. The purpose of this paper is to clarify how Yan Fu...

This essay chooses two typical translations of The Complete Classic Series of Sherlock Holmes and compares the women images. Based on Lefevere's rewriting theory, this thesis attempts to find the reasons for the changes of women images. By analyzing different patronages, ideologies and poetics in the...

Dumas, a famous French writer, has a representative work called The Count of Monte Cristo Entrusted by the captain, the protagonist named Edmond, sent a letter to Napoleonic party. However, he was framed by two despicable people and the grand justice. The work tells Edmond's miserable suffering and his...

What is essential to academic texts is coherence, which is acknowledged to be "difficult to teach and difficult to learn". Metadiscourse, as features in the discourse which can help readers decode the message, functions in the construction of coherence. This study aims to investigate how coherence differs...

As a new type of curriculum, the Network Open Educational Resources (NOER) are becoming increasingly popular with the development of network technology. And it is also an important access to self-learning for domestic learners. Due to the high quality of NORE and the great expectation from the target...

This paper first gives a brief overview of the definition to "evaluation" of language teaching based on the analysis of basic concepts, and then summarizes the theoretical content and theoretical system of language evaluation. By reviewing the main research features and existing practical problems of...