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    28 October 2024, No. 5 Previous Issue   
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    Our Lagrangian Formulation: An Initial Exploration of Linguistic Theory Integration
    YANG Yanning
    2024, 24 (5):  5-14.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2024.05.001
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    The development of various disciplines generally goes through several stages. From the initial stage of summarizing laws on the basis of phenomenal observation, to the middle stage of constructing theories from multiple perspectives, to the later stage of theory integration. Eventually, after further abstraction, a number of parameters are generated within a discipline that cut across different schools of theory. The most typical of these are the often-mentioned Lagrangian formulation in mathematics and physics. Based on these parameters, various theories eventually move towards integration. Modern linguistics has developed over a hundred years and constructed several theoretical schools on the basis of sorting out a large number of linguistic facts. However, we are always faced with the question of where the breakthrough for the integration of linguistic theories lies, and whether such parameters as Lagrangian formulation also exists within the discipline of linguistics. Taking the latest theories in formal linguistics, functional linguistics and cognitive linguistics as entry points, this study tries to propose a set of general parameters in linguistic research, and explores the possible paths to integrate linguistic theories across various schools of thought.

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    Westward Transmission of Chinese Opera:A Transknowletological Perspective
    FENG Zhengbin, QI Beiyu
    2024, 24 (5):  15-24.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2024.05.002
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    As an important component of China’s cultural “going global” strategy, the overseas dissemination of Chinese opera has garnered significant attention from academia, resulting in abundant research outcomes. However, existing studies lack sufficient elucidation of the knowledge transformation process during its westward dissemination. This research places the westward dissemination of Chinese opera within the framework of transknowletology, systematically reviewing the translation and transmission process and examining the role of translation practices in constructing a global understanding of Chinese opera. The research reveals that the localization of Chinese opera knowledge into the global context undergoes three cognitive phases: storytelling, literary appreciation, and stage performance. Throughout these phases, translation practices deeply explore the essence of Chinese opera knowledge and promote its global circulation, effectively facilitating the construction of a global understanding of localized Chinese opera knowledge. This study aims to broaden the research perspective of transknowletology and to explore the critical role of translation practices in promoting the international dissemination of China’s outstanding traditional culture.

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    A Study of Chinese Discourse about “Nation” and “State” in Translation
    ZHAO Guoyue
    2024, 24 (5):  25-32.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2024.05.003
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    “Nation Building” and “National/State Image Construction” have been hot topics in translation studies in present world, and the overall trend of the studies is going to break away from “Europe-centralism”. However, “nation” and “sate” are two conceptions originally from the western discourse. The interpretation of these two concepts in translation studies of China should align with the Chinese context. In Chinese context, “nation” is highly consistent with “state”, the Chinese nation is not an “imagined community”, but a community is created by people of all ethnic groups of the country along the long history, Therefore, it is rather necessary to rethink the function of translation to Chinese nation-building, and to divide “nation/state-building” in translation into two levels, one is inner building — “national identity”, the other is external building — “state image”, and they are closely related and support each other.

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    Knowledge Generation Modes, Principles and Motivations of David Hawkes’ Translation of “Yapailing” in Hongloumeng
    YAO Yiyin, XU Duo
    2024, 24 (5):  33-44.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2024.05.004
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    David Hawkes, one of the foremost English translators of Hongloumeng, completed the translation out of a profound love for the work. His goal was to faithfully reproduce the literary value and cultural connotations of the original text, thereby securing broader global recognition for this classic work. This study focuses the traditional Chinese banquet game Yapailing, thus exploring how this traditional Chinese knowledge is represented and generated for Western English readers through Hawkes’ translation. By doing so, it delves into the intrinsic principles and guiding motivations underlying Hawkes’s knowledge generation. The modes of knowledge generation, intrinsic principles, and guiding motivations are organically unified. The knowledge generation in literary texts is closely connected to the translator’s overall translation behaviour and aligns with his/her motivations. Guided by these motivations and adhering to intrinsic principles, the translator employs different modes to represent knowledge, thus generating it. Aiming at the coherence and completeness of the narrative as well as the readability and accessibility for readers, Hawkes adpots seemingly contradictory approaches of adding and reducing information, which actually help insist on prioritizing the core knowledge in translation while reducing the burden of non-core knowledge for readers. Hawkes’s knowledge generation in the English translation of Yapailing exemplifies how the translator plays an active role in knowledge generation within literary works.

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    On Fang Mengzhi’s Trichotomy Approach of “One Divided into Three” in his Translation Studies: With a Discussion on the Hot Topics and Trends of Translation Studies in China 2019—2023
    ZENG Ping, FAN Wuqiu
    2024, 24 (5):  57-68.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2024.05.006
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    Fang Mengzhi is a renowned and respected scholar in translation studies, especially for his dedicated and outstanding contributions to the development of discipline system, academic system and discourse system of Pragmatic Translation Studies in China. Throughout his translation studies and practices, the trichotomy approach of “One Divided into Three” is prominently adopted. This paper reveals the origin, connotation and value of this enlightening approach from both vertical and horizontal research dimensions, and makes a quantitative analysis of the research hotspots and trends of domestic translation studies in the past five years (2019—2023) to verify the forward-looking guidance and vitality of Prof. Fang’s translation thoughts.

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    On the Cultivation Planning of New Foreign Language Professionals Serving the Construction of Foreign-Related Rule of Law: Standards, Directions and Systems
    YU Suqing, LUO Weilan
    2024, 24 (5):  69-79.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2024.05.007
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    New foreign language professionals as an important component of the foreign-related rule of law, function as a bridge between the domestic rule of law and international governance, and play a vital role in the modernization of the rule of law with Chinese characteristics. The current problems of the cultivation of new foreign language professionals can be attributed to a vague standard of what shall be done and how it is done in their training. The vision of foreign language teaching is still bogged in out-dated notions. The relevant theories of Foreign Language Education Planning might hint on clues as to the core questions of “who, what, and how”in designing new foreign language programs. A new foreign language professional is one with personality integrity and a creative mind, well trained in law and legal English or otherwise, and able to share the Chinese stories of the rule of law in international occasions. Hence, a systematic and comprehensive planning approach, taking into account such factors as the strategic positioning, investigation and research, report summarization, policy formulation, policy implementation, and planning assessment, is required for designing the cultivation program of new foreign language professionals in the direction of “integrating ideology and politics, jurisprudence, and intelligence” to serve the construction of the foreign-related rule of law.

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    A Project-based Interprofessional Approach to the Training of Language Service Providers with Medical Expertise
    GUO Cong, YANG Daya, YANG Chengshu, KUANG Ming, XIAO Haipeng
    2024, 24 (5):  80-91.  DOI: 10.3969./j.issn.1674-8921.2024.05.008
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    An Ecological Perspective on the Construction of a Blended Teaching Model for General Education Courses of Non-English Languages Programs
    WU Wangjiao
    2024, 24 (5):  92-102.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2024.05.009
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    In the era of educational informatization, the rapid development and wide application of smart education technologies have created a new normality for blended teaching models in foreign language teaching. Based on the concept of educational ecology, this paper summarizes the background of blended teaching models, and expounds on the construction of a blended teaching model for minority languages general education courses from four dimensions pertaining to the perspective of blended ecology: the reconstruction of a teaching ecology, the construction of teaching resources, the construction of a teaching model, and the reform of teaching evaluation. Taking the French general education course as an example, this paper discusses the teaching practices and effects of a blended teaching model. Results of the research suggest that technology-empowered blended teaching models are effective in stimulating learners’ inherent vitality, helping them fully absorb the nourishment of information technology and achieving multi-subject, multi-domain, and multi-directional interactions. This, in turn, enhances their language proficiency, critical thinking skills, teamwork abilities, and reconstructs students’ “de-utilitarian” attitude towards general education courses. The teaching model proposed in this study provides theoretical references for the reform of the teaching of minority languages general education courses, and its practical results can offer empirical evidence for the ecological reconstruction of blended foreign language teaching.

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    The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Ecological Niche of Foreign Language Teaching from the Perspective of Foreign Language Pedagogy
    ZHUO Ling
    2024, 24 (5):  103-115.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2024.05.010
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    With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, its application in foreign language education has become increasingly prevalent, thereby influencing the ecological niche of foreign language teaching. The study aims to explore the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in improving language learning efficiency, personalized teaching and cross-cultural communication ability by analyzing the current application and outcomes of AI in language learning, so as to explore the application of AI technology in foreign language education and its impact on the ecological niche of foreign language teaching. Based on the survey data of 165 randomly selected non-English majors at a university, it shows that artificial intelligence technology can not only effectively improve the quality of teaching in foreign language education, but also reconstruct the ecological niche of foreign language teaching, improve teaching efficiency and learning effect, thereby fostering the intelligent development of the ecological niche for foreign language learners.

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    Exploration of Evaluation Models for Effective of “Internet+” Blended-teaching from the Perspective of Foreign Language Pedagogy
    ZHANG Shuyue
    2024, 24 (5):  116-124.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2024.05.011
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    In the context of the new liberal arts education, Internet technology has deeply integrated into the field of foreign language teaching. The blended-teaching mode based on “Internet+” has become one of the new forms of foreign language course instruction. Constructing an evaluation-model for the effectiveness of blended-teaching and extensively utilizing Internet media for evaluation activities are not only fundamental requirements for assessing students’ learning outcomes and achievements in foreign language teaching, but also align with the basic research needs in the emerging secondary discipline of Foreign Language currently—“Foreign Language Education Studies”, promoting the enhancement of foreign language course instruction. Consequently, to effectively evaluate blended-teaching effectiveness, this research adopts a perspective rooted in foreign language education studies, constructing an evaluation-model of blended-teaching effectiveness, analyzing its practical pathways, and promoting the efficiency of “teaching” and “learning” in foreign language instruction through “assessment” in teaching. This aims to enhance the application of blended-teaching modes and their evaluation mechanisms in foreign language education.

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    A Study on the Correlation between Language Proficiency Subtests and Effective Teaching in the Early Stage of Second Language Majors
    SUN Ying, ZHENG Yuchao, LIU Wei
    2024, 24 (5):  125-135.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2024.05.012
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    In the new era, elementary-level professional Japanese teaching has transitioned into a blend of offline and online models. However, the feedback mechanisms of learning activities on online platforms remain insufficiently comprehensive, making language knowledge subtests the primary method for teachers to assess learning outcomes. Effective teaching at the elementary stage is reflected in the teacher’s ability to cultivate second language acquisition habits and provide meaningful input of knowledge; in other words, learners’ acquisition progress serves as a key indicator of classroom effectiveness. Multidimensional daily assessments offer valuable data for understanding the interaction between teaching methods and learning pathways, helping to foster a balanced and stable learning environment through teacher-student interaction. This paper combines learners’ language proficiency outputs with questionnaire results, focusing on their adaptation to and perceptions of new language acquisition contexts. It also explores how to assess the cognitive development of beginner-level Japanese learners under the “online+” model, and how these insights should inform teaching design.

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    Exploring Patterns of Windowing of Attention and Conceptual Splicing of the Agentive Causal Chain
    KUANG Fangtao, ZHANG Qianhui
    2024, 24 (5):  136-149.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2024.05.013
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    Based on the spoken Chinese and the interview data, this paper explores the patterns of windowing of attention and conceptual splicing of the agentive causal chain that contains multiple sub-events. In terms of the windowing of attention, it is found that the agentive causal chain presents five patterns of windowing and they differ in the types of sub-events which are windowed, but the order of windowing in each pattern follows the arrangement of sub-events in the causal chain. In addition, the speaker’s physical experience has an impact on the choice of patterns of windowing. In terms of patterns of conceptual splicing, it is found that the agentive causal chain presents four patterns of conceptual splicing and they differ in the way the windowed sub-events are grouped. The degree of contiguity in the sequence between the windowed sub-events has an impact on the grouping of the windowed sub-events.

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    Exploring the Moderated Mediation Mechanism Between Teacher Support and Perseverance in Foreign Language Learning
    QI Yan
    2024, 24 (5):  150-162.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2024.05.014
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    This study is set against the backdrop of online English learning and aims to explore the relationship between the English teacher support perceived by students and the development of their perseverance in English learning. The researchers proposed a Moderated Mediation Model to investigate the mediating role of gender roles and the moderating role of gender. The research participants were 818 students from a high school in northern China who participated in online English learning, including 495 boys and 323 girls. The results of the Mediation Model first indicate that gender roles (masculine and feminine) play a partial mediating role between the English teacher support perceived by students and the perseverance in English learning. The results of the Moderated Mediation Model further show that gender only plays a moderating role in the path from “teacher support” to “feminine gender role”. Among them, the positive relationship between English teacher support and feminine gender role is stronger in boys. The research results clarify that in the process of online learning, positive interaction with English teachers is conducive to the development of students’ androgynous characteristics - that is, the joint development of masculine and feminine related traits, which is beneficial to the development of students’ perseverance in English learning; the influence of this kind of encouragement and support from teachers on the development of feminine traits in boys is more significant than that in girls. For relevant research significance, please refer to the discussion section.

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    Gender Differences in Color and Color Word Processing: Evidence from Mixed-effects Modeling
    FAN Lin, ZHENG Shiyang
    2024, 24 (5):  163-178.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2024.05.015
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    The cognitive processing of color and color words is highly complex and involves many influencing variables. Gender, as an important biological and cultural factor, profoundly impacts the cognitive processing of color and color words; however, the specific mechanisms of this influence remain inconclusive. This study examined the processing of the same color and color word among participants of different genders within the same cultural context, and modelling the experimental data with linear mixed-effect models. The results indicated that females significantly outperformed males in the processing speed of colors and color words, suggesting that gender impacts the fundamental processing mechanisms underlying color and color word cognition. Moreover, the results showed that processing speed is just one dimension of color and color word processing; in terms of processing quality, females demonstrated a significant advantage in the color judgment tasks, while males showed notable superiority in the color discrimination tasks.

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    An Analysis of Metaphorical Devices in Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken
    SONG Xuedong
    2024, 24 (5):  179-187.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2024.05.016
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    The Road Not Taken, a famous poem by Robert Frost, includes tremendous instances of metaphor among its lines. The preexisting researches do well in discussing the philosophical understandings of life behind the poem’s plain discourse of wording. However, their analyses of metaphor are usually confined to certain fragments in isolation and focus exclusively on the semantic expansion of some specific lexical items. The present research intends to dig out as many metaphorical devices as possible in the poem and hence present a full picture of its metaphors both lexically and grammatically.

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    “Truthfulness” in Memoirs of Contemporary Chinese American Writers
    ZHANG Xin
    2024, 24 (5):  188-198.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2024.05.017
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    Maxine Hong Kingston, Shirley Lim, and Amy Tan are widely regarded as the most significant contemporary Chinese American writers, all of whom have published memoirs since the late 20th century. In her memoir writing, Kingston intertwines fiction and imagination with non-fiction, showcasing an innovative and creative “poetic truthfulness”. In contrast, Shirley Lim’s academic memoir focuses on “personal historical truthfulness”, supplementing theoretical discourses with personal affects. Meanwhile, Amy Tan utilizes visual storytelling to challenge the objectivity of Western “media truthfulness”. These instances illustrate a multi-dimensional perspective of “truthfulness” in narrative, affective, and visual aspects, shedding light on the burgeoning artistry and self-reflectivity of contemporary Chinese American writers.

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    A Review of Philip Roth Research in China 2013—2022
    XIE Wenyu, SHI Liqing
    2024, 24 (5):  199-206.  DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2024.05.018
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    Contemporary Jewish American writer Philip Roth is known as the “living myth of American literature”. Since the 1980s, China’s academic circles have made fruitful achievements in Roth research. Since 2013, research on Roth in China has shown a new trend of development, such as placing his works within Western literary traditions and culture to examine his narrative art and creative style; exploring the political significance of Roth’s works in the grand historical context from the perspective of “cultural turn”; focusing on the Jewish nature of Roth’s works and his unique perspective on identity to delve deeply into the historical significance and practical connotations of the reproduction of identity issues. The research achievements in China from 2013 to 2022 have been impressive, but there is still room for further expansion and exploration, such as a systematic and holistic research on Roth, the exploration of “Americanism” in his works, a systematic review and discourse on his critical thinking, and based on China’s unique academic context, from the perspectives of spatial theory and ethical environment theory, further enriching Roth’s research in China.

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