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Cohesion and coherence are essential elements that have a role in forming structural coherence and coherence of the meaning of discourse texts. The formation of a coherent structure and semantic relationship cannot be separated from using the correct elements of cohesion and coherence, which are marked...

Nicknames could represent ethnicity, social standing, or social reputation, all of which are thought to have social significance. Nicknames have a form of intimacy and familiarity with one another, and they also may have negative consequences such as shaming, bullying, humiliation, etc. This study looks...

Reference is deixis following the context of the language so that it always changes and appears in various situations and language events, resulting in the meaning of the reference in one lingual unit being different. This study examines the form of person and time deixis and their forms of reference...

The word 商 (pronounced Shang) appeared in the Chinese language very early, and has been long used as a basic word. This paper analyzes and sorts out the original literature and Chinese corpora, aiming to clarify the original meaning and historical development of the word Shang. Due to the controversies,...

In this economic society, advertising has overwhelmingly penetrated every corner of our life. As a way of transmitting information, advertising's role cannot be neglected. As for advertising, language is the most inevitable part, which is worthy serious research. In the field of linguistics, many scholars...

Contrastive Studies of Pun in Figures of Speech. Pun as a figure of speech uses a word or phrase to get two meanings: literal meaning and connotation meaning so as to achieve humorous or sarcastic sense. There are many similarities between English and Chinese but in many ways they are different, while...

Humorous language, as the main form to express humor, is popular in our life. In humorous language, ambiguity and puns are important devices to create humor. They also play active roles in helping people to achieve positive communication effects, which make them have distinctive pragmatic characteristics....

Quanfeng Lantern Opera (also “Quanfeng Hua Deng”, “全丰花灯”), an important local folk art form of Jiangxi Province, was included in the First National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of China in 2006 (500IX-52). It has developed a unique performance form and characteristics after long-standing as the...

In “General Provisions of Civil Law” of the People’s Republic of China, there are some important new terms such as “gongxuliangsu” (公序良俗, public policy and ethics), “bingchichengshi, keshouchengnuo” (秉持诚实，恪守承诺, uphold honesty and honor commitment) and “shanyixiangduiren” (善意相对人, the good-faith third...

This linguistic-based educational research was conducted to identify the relation between semantic understanding and student’s syntax comprehension in learning English as foreign language. This observational research was managed by giving English humor (joke, pun, wit, etc.) to thirty students of English...

From the perspective of speech act theory, based on the self-constructed composite corpora, this paper analyzes the English translation of modal verbs commonly used in Chinese legislative texts. The results show that: the top three modal verbs used in legislative texts of Mainland China are “yingdang...

Pun is one of the most important rhetorical devices in Japanese Waka, which not only plays a significant role in creating the poetic conceptualization of implicitness and obscurity, but also is closely related to the Japanese daily thinking mode. “The Ogura Anthology of One Hundred Tanka-poems” is an...

English advertisement is characterized by the diversity of its forms and the flexibility and originality of its language usage, its lexical and syntactic levels are considered as distinguished features, advertising English is also frequently employed rhetorical vehicles which are used as decorative devices...

Mao Zedong’s “Speech at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art” in 1942 and Xi Jinping’s “Speech at the Forum on Literature and Art” (hereinafter referred to as the two “Speeches”) in 2014 are two glorious Marxist literature and art theoretical guidance documents. Under the illumination of the spirit...

The translation of pun has been a difficult problem. In this paper, the writer will compare the third chapter of the two English versions of Hong Lou Meng on the basis of Delabastita's theories on translation strategies of puns. According to the analysis of the data, it is believed Hawkes is reader-oriented...

As a product of modern society, the advertisements have been involved in all industries. Therefore, the ad and its translation are given more priority. However, the difference between Chinese and English in language and culture indicates that the advertisement translation is a flexible and complex work....

This paper examines the source and deduction process of the time of “Minor New Year” through poetry literature. According to the Compilation of Chinese Local Chronicles and Folklore Materials (《中国地方志民俗资料汇编》) [1], this paper summarizes the time of “Minor New Year” in various regions of China and the regions...

Many government officials use Instagram as a means of communication. In Indonesia, one of them is Ridwan Kamil, the mayor of Bandung City who has more than 7 million of followers on Instagram and has shared more than 4000 posts. A lot of his posts contain such hilarious wordplay, for example is puns....

This paper proposes a real-time recognition system for hand gestures, which serves as an alternative of human computer interface. We focus on hand gestures performed by hand motions, and 10 hand signed digits are recognized. Gesturing hand in each video frame is firstly extracted by skin-subtraction...

This paper presents a system to recognize Macao license plates. Sobel edge detector is employed to extract the vertical edges, and an edge composition algorithm is proposed to combine the edges into candidate plate regions. They are further examined on the existence of the character "M" by a verification...

While “xiaonian (the Chinese minor new year)” is one of the important Chinese traditional festivals, its date is not nationally unified. This essay therefore summarized “xiaonian” time and the regions where the “xiaonian” time has evolved recorded in Compilation of Chinese Local Chronicles and Folklore...

As a vital product of the contemporary society, advertisement has drawn much attention. The advertisers pay much attention to language strategies for the sake of leaving impression on the audience within limited time and space. Among a lot of different linguistic rhetorical devices, pun is seen as the...

The difficulty that is experienced by most Chinese language teachers is to determine which Chinese language textbooks are suitable to be applied to Indonesian learners. In Indonesia, most of the Chinese books, including the Chinese Semantic textbooks, are still in full Chinese or English. Learning Chinese...

Pun dominates the style of jokes in SpongeBob animation shows. The characters no doubt add a number of types of puns in several scenes. Pun is a humorous use of a word or phrase that has several meanings or sounds like another word. Translating pun is challenging for a translator, as it does not frequently...

In this paper, we proposed an object tracking method for video stream based on conventional particle filter. Feature vectors are extracted from coefficient matrices of Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT). The feature, as experiment showed, is very robust to occlusion and rotation and it is not sensitive...

Human emotions are essential to recognize the behaviour and the state of mind of a person. Emotion detection through speech signals has started to receive more attention lately. Living alone could be hard for some people due to the lack of social interaction, as they might develop a series of negative...

An image segmentation approach by improved watershed partition and DCT energy compaction has been proposed in this paper. The proposed energy compaction, which expresses the local texture of an image area, is derived by exploiting the discrete cosine transform. The algorithm is a hybrid segmentation...

This paper demonstrates a kind of learned ‎helplessness in human being that is ap-‎peared in Fuzzy Reinforcement Learning ‎‎(FRL) algorithm. At the beginning of ‎learning, when an agent continuously per-‎forms actions that cause sequential pun-‎ishments, afterwards it does not usually ‎behave well and...

This article is devoted to the study of the medical institutions’ influence on the modification of the plot about the Eve’s sin in the second half of the XIXth century. In 1896, the inventor of the graphic pun, Henri Avelot, created the caricature “Four arts”, singling out “serpentinisme” among artistic...

This paper investigates single-machine scheduling problems with piece-rate machine maintenance and rejection penalties, where the actual job processing time is required to be in the given time interval otherwise the extra penalty should be paid. Each job should be decided to be scheduled or rejected,...

The optimal management of hemodynamic disorders among critically ill patients requires an accurate assessment of hemodynamic status. Global End Diastolic Index (GEDI) is taken for a more reliable indicator of preload in critically ill patients than central venous pressure and doctors tend to arrange...

Background: Interleukin-6 (IL-6) was considered to be with the severity and mortality in COVID-19 patients, which implies a potential therapeutic target for treatment. We aimed to evaluate the safety and initial efficacy of Tocilizumab treatment for COVID-19 patients. Methods: In the retrospective study,...

This paper proposes an adaptive over-segmentation meth-od for image copy-move forgery detection. Firstly, the Adaptive Over-Segmentation algorithm is proposed to adaptively segment the host image into non-overlapping and irregular blocks. Then the feature points are extracted and matched with each other...

Purpose: Delirium is a frequent occurrence amongst Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients, but studies on its causes are sparse and its risk factors vary from disease to disease. Here, in this study, an attempt was made to investigate the factors associated with the prognosis of delirium in the ICU. Methods:...

This development research aims to develop Chinese digital teaching material for 10th-grade topic 个人 信息 [gèrén xìnxī] (self-introduction) based on flipbook. The research method in this development is the Research and Development (R & D) method using the DDD-E model. Following the development model...

The artistic creation of modern painting artist Marc Chagall is full of absurdity and his strong artistic emotion is displayed in his works with unique aesthetic characteristics. On the basis of a comprehensive understanding of Chagall’s art, this article takes his representative work “Lovers Under the...

The Programmed Cell Death 1 (PD-1)/Programmed Death Ligand 1 (PD-L1) Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors (ICIs), have become a hot spot in the field of cancer research and treatment, and bring new hope to patients with advanced tumors. But, in addition to enhancing the anti-tumor effect of T cells, PD-1/PD-L1...

Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a deregulated host response to infection, and is the most common cause of death in the intensive care unit. Although the pathogenesis of sepsis has made substantial progress, the current clinical treatment of sepsis is basically symptomatic treatment,...