Passive voice is an important grammatical phenomenon,and the translation of English passive voice is a hot issue in translation research.In translation,some linguistic phenomena of the source language cannot be expres...Passive voice is an important grammatical phenomenon,and the translation of English passive voice is a hot issue in translation research.In translation,some linguistic phenomena of the source language cannot be expressed in the target language,and the translation has limits of translatability.However,fewer scholars have studied the loss of textual function caused by the translation of passive voice.The authors argue that the conversion of voice in the translation process can,to a certain extent,cause the loss of meaning.In this paper,the authors analyze the loss of textual function caused by the conversion of English passive voice to Chinese active voice from the perspective of the limits of translatability.The authors believe that this phenomenon is common and unavoidable.Therefore,when dealing with the passive voice,the translator should preserve its discourse function as much as possible,rather than just“converting passive to active voice”.展开更多
Thematic structure and information structure are two important closely-related systems in textual function. By analyzing the thematic structure of a popular on-line English poem, this paper attempts to reveal how them...Thematic structure and information structure are two important closely-related systems in textual function. By analyzing the thematic structure of a popular on-line English poem, this paper attempts to reveal how theme and rheme is arranged to carry new information forward to achieve its textual function.展开更多
The importance of argumentation in academic writing,while historically recognised,has arguably lost prominence alongside the rapid expansion of higher education since the early 1990s in the UK.This has been exacerbate...The importance of argumentation in academic writing,while historically recognised,has arguably lost prominence alongside the rapid expansion of higher education since the early 1990s in the UK.This has been exacerbated by an increasingly prevalent technological intervention in teaching and learning processes.With this as a background,this article presents a semiotic analysis of student dissertation extracts to illustrate the role of intertextuality in governing interpretative,evaluative,and concluding propositions in argumentation.Each proposition is perceived as indexed to syntactical compositionality by which a previous proposition elicits a present one that awaits a future one,thus forming a line of argument.The analysis teases out what is at stake concerning the interdependence of signifying codes in textual relations and functions.This brings into view a network of sign actions that lends itself to instances of signification in mediating and coordinating propositions in argumentation.The article concludes with reflection on the medium of English as a lingua franca for studies in higher education,highlighting a semiotic understanding of the intertextuality of argumentation in academic writing.展开更多
文摘Passive voice is an important grammatical phenomenon,and the translation of English passive voice is a hot issue in translation research.In translation,some linguistic phenomena of the source language cannot be expressed in the target language,and the translation has limits of translatability.However,fewer scholars have studied the loss of textual function caused by the translation of passive voice.The authors argue that the conversion of voice in the translation process can,to a certain extent,cause the loss of meaning.In this paper,the authors analyze the loss of textual function caused by the conversion of English passive voice to Chinese active voice from the perspective of the limits of translatability.The authors believe that this phenomenon is common and unavoidable.Therefore,when dealing with the passive voice,the translator should preserve its discourse function as much as possible,rather than just“converting passive to active voice”.
文摘Thematic structure and information structure are two important closely-related systems in textual function. By analyzing the thematic structure of a popular on-line English poem, this paper attempts to reveal how theme and rheme is arranged to carry new information forward to achieve its textual function.
文摘The importance of argumentation in academic writing,while historically recognised,has arguably lost prominence alongside the rapid expansion of higher education since the early 1990s in the UK.This has been exacerbated by an increasingly prevalent technological intervention in teaching and learning processes.With this as a background,this article presents a semiotic analysis of student dissertation extracts to illustrate the role of intertextuality in governing interpretative,evaluative,and concluding propositions in argumentation.Each proposition is perceived as indexed to syntactical compositionality by which a previous proposition elicits a present one that awaits a future one,thus forming a line of argument.The analysis teases out what is at stake concerning the interdependence of signifying codes in textual relations and functions.This brings into view a network of sign actions that lends itself to instances of signification in mediating and coordinating propositions in argumentation.The article concludes with reflection on the medium of English as a lingua franca for studies in higher education,highlighting a semiotic understanding of the intertextuality of argumentation in academic writing.
