Coronavirus disease,or simply COVID-19,has affected many regions worldwide.The pandemic has caused great losses from all walks of life.Millions of people have died from the virus.In order to facilitate people’s under...Coronavirus disease,or simply COVID-19,has affected many regions worldwide.The pandemic has caused great losses from all walks of life.Millions of people have died from the virus.In order to facilitate people’s understanding of COVID-19,the present study adopts the theory of semantic field to analyze the COVID-19 lexicon that appeared in China Daily,an authoritative international daily newspaper issued by China.A total of 100 pieces of English news issued by China Daily have been randomly selected for this research.According to the theory of semantic field in structural linguistics,the meaning of a word cannot stand alone,but come into being with the meanings of its related words.Therefore,it is reasonable to try to understand COVID-19 as thoroughly as possible with relevant words,which form its semantic field.展开更多
This paper presents a brief review of distant biological communication phenomena, information fields explained as a transduction of information without energy displacement, experimental requirements for testing this h...This paper presents a brief review of distant biological communication phenomena, information fields explained as a transduction of information without energy displacement, experimental requirements for testing this hypothesis with human beings using electrophotonic analysis, oxymetry and electromagnetic shielding. Finally, authors present preliminary results and future work on this new field of interdisciplinary research.展开更多
Vocabulary, as the basic units of language, has recently gained the recognition it deserves. However, there are few enough topics on the vocabulary teaching. This paper, based on the traditional methods, puts forward ...Vocabulary, as the basic units of language, has recently gained the recognition it deserves. However, there are few enough topics on the vocabulary teaching. This paper, based on the traditional methods, puts forward association approach in vocabulary teaching and illustrates its detailed classification and teaching procedure.展开更多
According to the 19th century histories of the English language,Latin influences upon early English vocabulary are considered to be classified into two periods,including continental borrowing and the Christianizing of...According to the 19th century histories of the English language,Latin influences upon early English vocabulary are considered to be classified into two periods,including continental borrowing and the Christianizing of Britain.From the points of views of Earl R.Anderson,a professor of Cleveland State University,words borrowed from Latin into Continental Germanic before the fifth century A.D.mostly belong to the semantic fields of commerce and military activity;words borrowed during the seventh century,when the Anglo-Saxons gradually adopted Christianity,mostly belong to the semantic fields of religion,literacy and education,etc.This article tries to analyze how Latin influences Old English vocabulary in various ways respectively.展开更多
文摘Coronavirus disease,or simply COVID-19,has affected many regions worldwide.The pandemic has caused great losses from all walks of life.Millions of people have died from the virus.In order to facilitate people’s understanding of COVID-19,the present study adopts the theory of semantic field to analyze the COVID-19 lexicon that appeared in China Daily,an authoritative international daily newspaper issued by China.A total of 100 pieces of English news issued by China Daily have been randomly selected for this research.According to the theory of semantic field in structural linguistics,the meaning of a word cannot stand alone,but come into being with the meanings of its related words.Therefore,it is reasonable to try to understand COVID-19 as thoroughly as possible with relevant words,which form its semantic field.
文摘This paper presents a brief review of distant biological communication phenomena, information fields explained as a transduction of information without energy displacement, experimental requirements for testing this hypothesis with human beings using electrophotonic analysis, oxymetry and electromagnetic shielding. Finally, authors present preliminary results and future work on this new field of interdisciplinary research.
文摘Vocabulary, as the basic units of language, has recently gained the recognition it deserves. However, there are few enough topics on the vocabulary teaching. This paper, based on the traditional methods, puts forward association approach in vocabulary teaching and illustrates its detailed classification and teaching procedure.
文摘According to the 19th century histories of the English language,Latin influences upon early English vocabulary are considered to be classified into two periods,including continental borrowing and the Christianizing of Britain.From the points of views of Earl R.Anderson,a professor of Cleveland State University,words borrowed from Latin into Continental Germanic before the fifth century A.D.mostly belong to the semantic fields of commerce and military activity;words borrowed during the seventh century,when the Anglo-Saxons gradually adopted Christianity,mostly belong to the semantic fields of religion,literacy and education,etc.This article tries to analyze how Latin influences Old English vocabulary in various ways respectively.
