A Pragmatic Approach to Idiom Translation from a Cultural Perspective

Idioms are gems of a language which have been refined through ages of use. Idioms are thus always rich in cultural connotation and national flavor. Lots of cultural information is embedded in idioms. Language is a part of culture. Language is the important carrier of culture. Language and culture have close relationship with each other. The study of the relationship between language and culture has been considered a subject of great value. Owing to this, translation theorists and translators have put more attention to the cultural barriers that exist in translation. Therefore, translators have to better understand the relationship between language and culture and the relationship between culture and translation so as to render idioms from the SL into the TL faithfully and effectively.

Major Problems in American Education: From a Socio-Cultural Perspective

American intellectuals of different generations and in various eras,with a strong sense of social responsibility and a critical mind,have dedicated themselves in revealing some major problems existing in American education,namely educational inequality,declining academic performance,inadequate funding,and school violence.By describing and probing into these problems from a socio-cultural perspective,they offer a solution of eliminating the socio-economic inequality in America,which is fundamental and essential.

On the Construction and Representation of Chinese Cultural Identity: From an Intercultural Perspective

Cultural identity is the identity or feeling of belonging to a group.Individual,relational and communal identity are the three components of the cultural identity.Chinese cultural identity is an example of communal identity.A positive national cultural identity enhances national prestige,increases global understanding,reveals a unique value proposition and develops a competitive advantage in the world.However,in the wave of globalization and contemporary Chinese social transformation,Chinese cultural identity encounters some challenges.Cultural identity becomes fuzzy.The present paper attempts to make some suggestions to the construction and representation of Chinese cultural identity from an intercultural perspective.To construct Chinese cultural identity,we should try to accommodate Chinese cultural inheritance with contemporary culture and modern society,enhance full development of cultural products,rebuild people’s self-esteem on cultural identity,and improve the government’s identity-constructing ability.As for the representation of Chinese cultural identity,promoting the Chinese language,making use of mass media,performing national cultural identity in sports,encouraging heritage tourism and drawing upon other countries’ experience would be essential.

Reasons for Chinese Crave for Civil-Service Jobs:A Cross-Cultural Perspective

This paper is aimed at exploring the cultural reasons underlying the civil service examinations,which can be concludedas"Tri-Cs",namely the well-established agricultural civilization,cadre culture and family-oriented concept.Through in-depthanalyses,the author strives to clarify the possible reasons for this exam fever and help delineate a clearer picture of the essentials ofChinese culture.

Teaching Literature Course in the Cultural Perspective

The course of English and American literature plays an important role in ELT （English Language Teaching）, however, English majors in class are tired of the conversationalist＇s introduction by the teacher of literary backgrounds, characters, plots, even the literary writing styles. Consequently, the course of literature goes into the bottleneck because of the null of cultural addition.The literature class seems out of moded, even CAI （Computing Aided Instruction） fails to motivate students. How to solve the problem？ This paper takes teaching methodology of literature in the cultural perspective to solve the problem. It is feasible for teachers to improve students＇ intercultural communication competence in cultural content imput in the literature course.

Research on the Japanese Vocabulary and Sentences Developmental Procedure under the Cultural Perspective

In this paper, we conduct theoretical research on the Japanese vocabulary and sentences developmental procedure under the cultural perspective. Japan nearly for hundreds of years of rapid development, the culture also is in rapid progress, coupled with cultural exchange between China and Japan has a long history of cultural exchanges between the two countries will be growing, reflect is the language of a culture, language is the carrier of culture, so, we need not only to learn the foreign language more need to understand the culture of other countries. Socalled culture in the initial stage of learning, refers to in the primary stage of language learning is introduced into cultural background and content of the language, to make the university language teaching into the society culture, realize the best purpose of the foreign language teaching and the highest efficiency in the language learning culture learning and decisive role in promoting. Our research proposes the novel paradigm for basic research of the Japanese language which holds special significance.

Research on the Fusion of Guangxi MiaoJin and Modern Arts and Crafts Design from the Perspectives of Aesthetic and Cultural Inheritance

In this paper, we conduct research on the fusion of the Guangxi MiaoJin and modem arts and crafts design from the perspectives of aesthetic and the cultural inheritance. From angles of folk embroidery patterns modelling characteristics are analyzed： include strong decorative and practical; the integrity of the vivid and concise; symbolic connotation deeply; simple random nature; handed down from generation to generation program. Discusses the forming characteristic of folk embroidery modelling is not an accidental phenomenon of art, but has a profound folk custom, economy, religion, and history of aesthetics, with typical regional culture characteristics. The research of folk embroidery in the status of folk art is of great significance. In the future, we will combine more literature review to optimize our current research and broaden the research boundary.

Research and Analysis on the College English Teaching Emphasis from the Cultural Migration and Transformation of Thinking Perspectives

In this paper, we conduct research on the college English teaching emphasis from the cultural migration and transformation ofthinking perspectives. College English has long been in for the college English subject status. However, college English as a multidisciplinary,interdisciplinary research in the field of discipline construction, it seems, are still stay in the linguistics, language knowledge in academiccharacteristics for its stage of development. Reform of basic college English teaching, the teacher is still teaching main body, is the teaching oflanguage knowledge, since teachers play an important role in language teaching, the teacher wants to penetrate cultural knowledge in teachingand we must strengthen their own culture. Under this basis, this paper proposes the novel ideals on the related issues that will be meaningful andinnovative.

Explaining the Private College Students＇ English Academic Ability by Social Cultural Perspective

From the perspective of the sociocultural theory （SCI）, this article examines Chinese students＇ present states of English academic achievements in some private colleges by investigating teacher-student interaction. It then analyzes underlying factors influencing learner＇s academic ability. Finally it investigates some efficient class teaching strategies to promote their academic development, using class interventions such as the know-want-learn strategy （KWL）, the object-explore-success-happy strategy （OESH）, the cooperative project between students and teacher＇s strategy （CPST） and so on. Theoretically, the paper aims to place the SCT perspectives in the foreground. Pedagogically, it attempts to raise teacher-practitioners＇ wisdom so as to enhance learners＇ English academic achievements from the affective perspective.

Chinese Contemporary Art Design from the Perspective of National Culture

The progress of social economy drives the progress of humanity art. Due to historical condition reason, the pace of art design development in China is late. Since the reform and opening up, the art design obtains a long-term development in China. In order to adapt to the trend of world economy integration, all aspects of art design fields in China are learning from the foreign countries, however, it is hard to have a breakthrough creation in itself, and it lacks of domestic art design ＂localization＂ , which can not fully reflect the national culture and national elements. At the same time, the self-innovation power is weak, and the creation ability is insufficient, which also restricts the independent development of art design field to a higher level in China. The art design, as a comprehensive subject, is affected by many factors of society, science and technology and market for its own improvement. This paper mainly discusses from national culture level for art design, thinking that if the art design in China wants to develop higher, it needs to be based on the national culture and profound cultural base, constructing the art design products with Chinese national styles.

Formation of the Sense of Order of Ancient Greece’s External Public Space From the Perspective of Culture

With China’s urban planning and construction entering the stock renewal stage, the focus of urban planning and construction has gradually shifted from the scale and speed of urban planning and construction to the improvement of urban spatial quality. The order of urban external public space is a representative field to show the quality of urban space. In history, the stable and clear outline in the external space of Western Europe gave people pleasant visual enjoyment with its strong sense of order. Ancient Greece, as one of the most important sources of civilization in Western Europe, profoundly influenced the history of urban development in Western Europe. Therefore, this study explained why ancient Greece had a strong pursuit of sense of order of external public space from the perspective of culture, hoping to provide a theoretical basis for the exploration of the ideal state of urban external space in China.

Research on the O2O model of consumer behavior under the perspectives of culture and values

In this paper, we conduct research on the O2O model of the consumer behavior under the perspectives of culture and values.Electronic commerce is striding forward O2O will follow the pace of history. O2O mode obvious advantages, is helpful to promote thedevelopment of the electricity industry. O2O model development has quietly changed our life, is not only the change of consumption patterns,but also poses challenges to the traditional industry. O2O core is through the sale, to provide information and services, to push offl ine storesales promotion information to Internet users, and take them to the entity shop to consumer goods or enjoy. This paper integrates the consumerbehavior to propose the new O2O model which is innovative.

Research on the Local Culture and Corresponding Influences on English Linguistics from the Etymology Perspective

In this paper, we conduct research on the local culture and corresponding influences on the English linguistics from the etymology perspective. In the form of linguistics, language is a form of system, the research is in the form of the combination of form and meaning, language learning is rules and skills to master. In systemic functional linguistics, language is a system the study is in the context of significance. Language learning, therefore, the use of language, masters the language knowledge and skills in practice and the social culture. From a social point of view of language learning, language learning is no longer the pure knowledge and skills to master the cognitive process of memory, but a process of social interaction between individuals. Our research starts form the in-depth analysis of the etymology to propose novel perspective that is innovative and meaningful.

＂Going Global＂ Strategies of Chinese Culture from the Audience＇ s Perspective

This paper revealed American students'interest in Chinese culture potentially due to China's recent development.Moreover,participants reported that understanding Chinese culture would broaden their perspective to include customs which were perceived as quite different from their own.Unsurprisingly,all of the participants were interested in superficial experiences with Chinese culture,like eating Chinese food.More than half of the participants indicated a desire to visit historical sites,such as the Great Wall and the Forbidden City.Half of the participants would like to travel in big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai,if they were to visit China.Not a few of Chinese descendants were eager to go to China for tracing roots.According to the results of the research,some"going global"strategies of Chinese culture were provided.The results may impact on Chinese culture's"going global"trend and offer support to the spread of Chinese culture.

A Cross-Culture Perspective on Teaching

During the past decades,educators have been searching the effective approaches to improve their teaching by looking towards the Western counties.Interestingly,many of their Western counterparts are also looking towards the East for similar inspiration.The main purpose of this research is to avoid danger of direct transplant of certain approaches by comparing societal cultural background which affects teaching and learning.

The Spirit of the Age in Mathematics and Art： The Eastern and Western Perspective Painting

Both mathematics and art consistently reflect the spirit of the age in which they arise. Consequently, the mathematics in China and in Korea during the Joseon Dynasty, in contrast to the deductive western mathematics, does not function on the basis of proving something deductively. Rather, the Chinese mathematics from this period was based upon making observations about problems by combining patterns with specific examples. In this paper, this author attempts to compare the differences in mathematics between the East and the West, and also to study the different perspectives in art between the East and the West, in order to identify the relationship between civilization, culture and the spirit of the age. This will explain the reason why the Western ＇One Point Perspective＇ had spread in China and the Chosen Dynasty, yet could not be permanently established in these countries.

基于多尺度价值链接的城市遗产统筹保护与文化空间系统组构

基于人本价值视角,将遗产对象视为历史文化传承的场域空间,从城市与城区、片区与地段、建筑与场所三重空间尺度,提出城市遗产统筹保护与文化空间系统组构方法。以孤岛文化空间历史价值链接、历史文化空间当代价值链接、小微文化空间价值媒介链接3种价值链接机制为底层逻辑,建立城区遗产同源要素统筹、地段遗产文化生境统筹、建筑遗产价值媒介统筹3种要素统筹模式,以及城市文化空间网络建构、地段文化空间功能组织、建筑文化空间场景营造3种空间组构方案,以期突破传统遗产保护理论在遗产价值认知、价值链接和要素统筹方面的瓶颈,为我国城市遗产保护活化和价值传承实践提供参考。

人本视角下的历史文化街区更新思考

历史文化街区是我国历史文化名城保护的核心地区,也是保护与发展冲突最为集中的地方。在城市更新的时代背景下,历史文化街区在更新发展过程中往往面临建筑质量维护欠佳、基础设施和公共服务设施缺乏、历史环境整治不当、生活延续性割裂等问题。在“以人为本”的价值导向下,重点关注街区安全、全龄友好、文脉传承、合理发展和公众参与5个方面,结合部分城市的实践经验,对历史文化街区更新的技术方法和实践模式进行综合思考。

区域视角的城乡历史文化遗产保护思考

改革开放以来,我国的城乡历史文化保护工作取得了显著成效,但也存在城镇布局建设忽视地域文化特色、文化遗产保护缺乏区域视角和系统观念等问题,导致地域文化特色消退、区域文化体系和脉络遭到破坏。作为人类历史上唯一延续至今的灿烂文明,中华文明“九州共贯、多元一体”,具有突出的连续性、统一性特征,从区域视角开展城乡历史文化遗产保护是弘扬中华文明的时代要求和必然选择。树立大历史观、大文化观和大区域观的城乡历史文化遗产保护理念,针对我国自然地理和地域文化多元的特征,提出以“精准适配”为核心思想、以“精准分析-适应布局-动态评估”为方法框架的区域城乡历史文化遗产保护理论方法,并应用于全国总体层面、跨区域跨流域文化廊道和典型文化片区等不同空间维度的保护实践,探索构建了我国区域城乡文化遗产保护的整体框架。