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A Contrastive Study of Conceptual Metaphors in English and Chinese Economic and Trade Languages CHEN Linhai, AN Xiaocan 2016, 16 (03):  4-8.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2016.03.001 Abstract ( 295 )   PDF (1031KB) ( 119 )   Economic activities are closely linked with people's daily lives. But for ordinary people, economic operations and development are abstract. Conceptual metaphors can make abstract concepts concrete in order to deepen people's understanding. In virtue of Lakoff and Johnson's Conceptual Metaphors Theory, this paper extracts a large number of conceptual metaphorical expressions from 86 articles related to economy and trade, and uses AntConc 3.2.1 and SPSS 13.0 software to do data analyses. Then, from the cognitive angle, it compares the similarities and differences of conceptual metaphors used in English and Chinese economic and trade languages. It can test and verify, based on cross linguistic and cross cultural analyses, some judgments on conceptual metaphors put forward by other researchers. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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Metacognition and Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: An Interview with Professor Lawrence Jun Zhang SUN Qiang, Lawrence Jun Zhang 2016, 16 (03):  16-19.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2016.03.003 Abstract ( 331 )   PDF (709KB) ( 182 )   Professor Lawrence Jun Zhang of The University of Auckland, New Zealand, is an internationally well renowned scholar for his research in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. His research program spans bilingual/biliteracy acquisition and bilingual/biliteracy education, learning and teaching English as a second/foreign language at university settings, and teacher identity and cognition in language teacher education. Most of his research is particularly concerned with metacognitive, cognitive, linguistic, sociocultural, and developmental factors in reading/biliteracy development. He was interviewed particularly with regard to his most intensively engaged research area, metacognition in L2 learning and teaching. In this interview, Professor Zhang started with a brief appraisal of the concept, the scope and historical development of metacognition, highlighting its origin in cognitive and developmental psychology. Then, he reviewed research on metacognition, especially its role in L2 learning and teaching at home and abroad. The interview concluded with him recommending that future research on metacognition in L2 education be inclusive, embracing not only a cognitive perspective, but also a sociocultural view, to the extent that metacognition can be better theorized in a dynamic systems framework. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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Research on the Relations between College English Writing, College English,and General Education LU Yuanwen 2016, 16 (03):  31-33.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2016.03.006 Abstract ( 378 )   PDF (624KB) ( 65 )   This paper examines the relations between college English writing, college English,and general education. After an analysis of the features of general education and the current situations in teaching college English and college English writing, it points out that the course of college English should be segmented into different courses, and the course of college English writing should be compulsory in college curriculum system. One of the major goals of college English reform in China is to cultivate college students' critical thinking ability. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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Exploring Good Student Writers' Strategy Use: A Sociocultural Approach LEI Xiao 2016, 16 (03):  34-39.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2016.03.007 Abstract ( 360 )   PDF (1300KB) ( 59 )   Strategy studies have been a well established field in second language writing research and this article investigates English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' writing strategy use from a sociocultural perspective. Unlike the traditional focus on internal cognitive mechanisms in writing strategy studies, this sociocultural approach highlights the dialectic relationship between cognition and the sociocultural context and the importance of mediating resources in strategy use. Six good student writers from a Chinese university participated in the study, and data about their writing experience were collected through interviews. The findings showed that the participants used four types of writing strategies: artifact mediated, rule mediated, community mediated, and role mediated strategies. Other features of their strategy use include the diversity of mediating resources, idiosyncratic use of these resources, and the common goal to enhance their language knowledge and writing ability. Drawing on these findings, it is suggested that the sociocultural context of writing activities can be reconfigured to help writers enhance their strategy use and possible ways include artifact manipulation and community construction. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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Action Research and Its Application in Business English Teaching WENG Jingle 2016, 16 (03):  40-44.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2016.03.008 Abstract ( 335 )   PDF (921KB) ( 73 )   “Action research”, as a non academic research mode, has not been so widely applied to university business English teaching in this country. In fact, it is of great practical significance to business English teaching, however. This paper expounds the application of action research to business English teaching to improve the quality of the teaching, intending to arouse great attention of business English teachers to it so that they may adopt this research mode in business English teaching research. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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Human Machine Interactive Translation Strategies Based on Text Stratification CUI Qiliang, LEI Xuefa 2016, 16 (03):  46-52.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2016.03.009 Abstract ( 447 )   PDF (1513KB) ( 102 )   Machine translation (MT), computer aided translation (CAT) and human translation (HT) are supplementary with each other, affecting the way of translation. First in accordance with customers' text usage purposes and corresponding quality requirements for target texts, a wide variety of texts can be stratified into three types: reference level text, standard level text and publication level text, and then taking into consideration the features of MT, CAT and HT, three appropriate translation strategies are available, which are machine centered translation, human machine interactive translation and human centered translation. All these will help to strike a balance among translation's quality, efficiency and cost as well as to further enrich the content of text studies. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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Study on the Curriculum Construction of Translation Technologies from the Perspective of Systems Theory WANG Huashu 2016, 16 (03):  53-57.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2016.03.010 Abstract ( 340 )   PDF (1084KB) ( 52 )   This paper analyzes the varied components of the modern language service industry from the perspective of systems theory and points out several problems existing in domestic translation technology curriculum that has lagged far behind the technologies in industry practice. Based on the principles of systems theory such as teleonomy, integrality, hierarchy and openness, this paper puts forward corresponding suggestions and countermeasures so as to solve the aforesaid problems and to promote the sustainable development of translation technology education. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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Longfellow's Influence in Russia LIU Shijun 2016, 16 (03):  64-68.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2016.03.012 Abstract ( 418 )   PDF (1463KB) ( 74 )   Longfellow,born America in 19 century, was emotionally tied with the Russian literature.His status in Russia had been experienced the negation, the process of negation of negation. Both literary historians D.S. Mirsky and Peter Lavrov denied Longfellow's influence according to Russia's special era and standard of literary criticism. Pu Ning enjoyed Longfellow's romantic feelings and humanism,so he had a strong sense of identity to Longfellow's rural culture,literature talent,and literary ambition. The article reflects the acceptance and dissemination of Longfellow's poetry in Russia, discusses its change in Russian literature and offers a few views for modern Chinese writers. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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Literary Studies in the Context of Visual Culture: Virginia Woolf as an Example MOU Fanghua 2016, 16 (03):  69-75.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2016.03.013 Abstract ( 231 )   PDF (1430KB) ( 48 )   With the “cultural turn” of the literary study, the relationship of the visual culture and literature, especially the literary study in the background of visual culture, arouses the study interest of the literary circle. However, critics usually focus on the theoretical exploration and conceptual analysis instead of giving some case studies. For the sake of this, this paper purports to explore Virginia Woolf's aesthetic ideas in visual arts such as movie, painting, and stage performance, and accordingly to discuss the integration, adaptation, and influence of Virginia Woolf's literary works in the three aspects mentioned above. References | Related Articles | Metrics

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Holocaust, Revenge, Reconciliation and Their Narrative Representation: On Nathan Englander's “Free Fruit for Young Widows” TANG Weisheng 2016, 16 (03):  76-80.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2016.03.014 Abstract ( 335 )   PDF (1459KB) ( 84 )   “Free Fruit for Young Widows” is about Tendler and Shimmy Gezer, two survivors in Holoc Gaust: while Tendler represents violence and Revenge, Gezer kindness and reconciliation. Through the story, Nathan Englander reconsiders such issues as Holocaust, humanity and Jewish identity. By proposing an alternative way to cope with Holocaust trauma, Englander interrogates, by way of insinuation, the national terrorism policy adopted by Isreal and its Holocaust based rationale. Meanwhile, the ritualistic narration of the story suggests the return of Jewish tradition and rituals manifest in contemporary American Jewish writers represented by Nathan Englander. References | Related Articles | Metrics