Beyond the stories,Golding spends much effort on an issue called"impotence of language"in his works,especially Lord of the Flies and Darkness Visible.Thus Golding's language view is worthwhile to researc...Beyond the stories,Golding spends much effort on an issue called"impotence of language"in his works,especially Lord of the Flies and Darkness Visible.Thus Golding's language view is worthwhile to research.With help of Lacan's theory of signifier and signified,this paper made a primary glance about Golding's language view within the two novels.展开更多
As a special social text,advertisement language is in a constantly developing state;it records the development of social value in its unique way.Since the Great Cultural Revolution,the contemporary Chinese advertiseme...As a special social text,advertisement language is in a constantly developing state;it records the development of social value in its unique way.Since the Great Cultural Revolution,the contemporary Chinese advertisement language has been experienced courses from community to individuality,from morality and justice orientation to benefit orientation,and even from unification which presents the socialism's view of value to multiplication which contains the values of capitalism,market economy,feudalism and so on.The development of Chinese views of value impacts the development of Chinese advertisement languages.It can be also seen the development of values are reflected by the development of advertisement languages.展开更多
The paper presents an analysis of computer programming languages based on the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce. The author describes how such languages could evolve in order to achieve some of the expressive characteris...The paper presents an analysis of computer programming languages based on the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce. The author describes how such languages could evolve in order to achieve some of the expressive characteristics of natural languages. This description evinces otherwise unnoticed differences between natural languages and programming languages, showing that Peircean semiotics is an efficient analysis tool. This suggests further research on the technical features needed to implement an easier way to program computers.展开更多
The notion of communication is in essence that of information transmission in its simplest form—the semiotic encoding and decoding of messages that occur in every type of language,be that written,verbal,non-verbal,or...The notion of communication is in essence that of information transmission in its simplest form—the semiotic encoding and decoding of messages that occur in every type of language,be that written,verbal,non-verbal,or animal.Taking form in an Aristotelian syllogism,this paper argues that graffiti constitutes its own art form that must be equally represented,examined,appreciated,and documented.By exploring how graffiti is art,how art is language,and therefore how graffiti is language,this paper seeks to expand its audience’s understanding of how artworks are underpinned by a similar semiotic structure to that of the written or verbal.Through theory and case studies of contemporary graffiti artists and their works,the notion of graffiti as a language that can be read and contextualized comes to life in a way that is both grounded in history and stunningly creative.展开更多
In this paper, we conduct research on the development of Chinese contemporary literature trend under the language and cultureangle of view. Modern Chinese literature “unifi cation”, actually is to point to in tradit...In this paper, we conduct research on the development of Chinese contemporary literature trend under the language and cultureangle of view. Modern Chinese literature “unifi cation”, actually is to point to in traditional forming process, the new literature has alwaysemphasized performance to distinguish it from the old literary value connotation of thoughts, emotional content. Generalization of the contentfor later generations have don’t have much room for doubt, literary revolution advocates some extent is also the founder of Chinese modernliterature “unifi ed” have made clear, they are not only from the modern Chinese literature to argue that the traditional sense. For dealing withthis basic issue, we propose the countermeasures for the further and in-depth implementation that will then optimize the current research result onthe Chinese contemporary literature.展开更多
As the second bestseller of Khaled Hosseini' s novels that spread all over the world,A Thousand Splendid Suns embodies the quite impressive and infective writing techniques and narrative power of its writer and it...As the second bestseller of Khaled Hosseini' s novels that spread all over the world,A Thousand Splendid Suns embodies the quite impressive and infective writing techniques and narrative power of its writer and it also shows the unique language style of Hosseini.This paper gives an explanation of the narrative point of view and analyses the specific examples in the text.Through deepening the transition of third-person point of view between the two characters,the paper demonstrates its stylistic effects in arranging the textual structure as well as building the characters,thus deepen the theme of the whole story.展开更多
The concept of authenticity has received much discussion in applied linguistics and educational studies.Valuable insights have been gained into how authenticity is problematised in language teaching and how to improve...The concept of authenticity has received much discussion in applied linguistics and educational studies.Valuable insights have been gained into how authenticity is problematised in language teaching and how to improve the situation by engaging learners with better-designed materials and activities.These achievements notwithstanding,empirical evidence remains insufficient to understand learners’meaning-making endeavours in real-life learning scenarios.The current study attempts to examine authenticity in additional language learning from a semiotic perspective,which may shed new light on the complex cognitive process of beginner learners’first encounter with a new language and how this process could be motivated and facilitated by teachers in a classroom setting.Evidence of semiotic articulation and production of authenticity from a low-pressure Spanish classroom is analysed focussing on cultural authenticity,interactive authenticity and authenticity of behaviour and engagement.The evidence is discussed to find how semiotic resources in combination with lived experiences may help learners’comprehension and appreciation of the target language and its culture.These findings reveal the relevance and value of semiotic approaches to language teaching research and provide practical implications for exposing pre-tertiary young learners to languages other than English for more diverse and extensive learning experiences.展开更多
This paper introduces some theories concerning language transfer, such as behaviorist views and cognitive views, and the relationship between language transfer and contrastive and error analysis, interlanguage, fossil...This paper introduces some theories concerning language transfer, such as behaviorist views and cognitive views, and the relationship between language transfer and contrastive and error analysis, interlanguage, fossilization, universial grammar. It is believed that incorporating the concept of language transfer in English teaching may facilitate students’ learning of the language.展开更多
Alzheimer’s disease is accompanied by progressive aphasia which intensifies the cognitive problems. The quality of the care given to the patient influences, however, the evolution of his language difficulties. The wa...Alzheimer’s disease is accompanied by progressive aphasia which intensifies the cognitive problems. The quality of the care given to the patient influences, however, the evolution of his language difficulties. The way the vulnerable person is aided, and the extent to which his efforts to make himself understood by his human environment are validated, contribute to preventing the development of a feeling of failure, a tendency to give up, and retrogressive tendencies. Repetition of interpersonal disqualifiers, care dispensed neglecting inter subjectivity, to the contrary encourages the patient to limit contact with his environment and so precipitate his language difficulties. Aphasia is thus linked to the insufficiency of human communication. The consequences of this disorder can be limited by taking into account the phatic language function to keep communication channels open. The human relationship is an encounter, an act of mutual identity-giving. Alzheimer-patient identity break-down is linked to cognitive troubles and to the failure of patients’ relationship attempts.展开更多
WANG Fu-chih is a well-established philosopher and a language master. This paper studies his language view through analyzing his poetic views and his views on the relationship between Name and Reality.
Flash fiction is a kind of mini-sized story that contains no more than 1,000 words.This kind of fiction emerged alongwith the development of the times.Due to its short length,simple plot and limited words,it focuses o...Flash fiction is a kind of mini-sized story that contains no more than 1,000 words.This kind of fiction emerged alongwith the development of the times.Due to its short length,simple plot and limited words,it focuses on shaping the personality ofcharacters.Both the two flash fictions,"The Story of an Hour"and"The Unicorn in the Garden",express a similar theme of mar-riage,but they employ different ways to create characters.With a detailed comparison of the characters and the characterization be-tween the two works,this paper intends to explore the methods of shaping characters from point of view,psychological descriptionand language description.展开更多
Toni Morrision's Beloved earns a wide degree of recognition for its stylistic brilliance and psychological depth in American liter ature and it is discussed not only as a presentation of slavery,but also as mother...Toni Morrision's Beloved earns a wide degree of recognition for its stylistic brilliance and psychological depth in American liter ature and it is discussed not only as a presentation of slavery,but also as motherhood.This paper,in the light of Shklovsky's theory of defa miliarization,aims to exam the application of the techniques of defamiliarization in Beloved from the following two aspects:narrative point of view and language strategies.展开更多
Departing from a brief presentation of the various views of language, this article elaborates the influence of views of language on language teaching and language testing. This will help us have background knowledge o...Departing from a brief presentation of the various views of language, this article elaborates the influence of views of language on language teaching and language testing. This will help us have background knowledge on language teaching and language testing.展开更多
The aim of this study is to portray and explore the variety of social actors depicted visually along the pages of the intermediate level ELT coursebooks that are published locally (by British and American publishers...The aim of this study is to portray and explore the variety of social actors depicted visually along the pages of the intermediate level ELT coursebooks that are published locally (by British and American publishers) and marketed globally (mostly to the EFL contexts). For this, a thorough photo-ethnographic exploration of the visuals supported by the inventory of "social actor interaction network" is employed. In the field of Coursebook Analysis, visuals have attracted limited attention despite marking asocio-semiotically rich discursive field. In fact, the semiotic labor division between the "word" and the "image" in representing and reconstructing (simulating) the world, points to a gain on the part of the image as the brain is evolutionarily more experienced in processing visual information than processing verbal information. Therefore, images can appeal more directly to the sensory experience domains of the viewers via visual contact, evoking deeper consciousness. Acting as the prominent mediators of signification practice, visuals catalogue the representations and simulations of social-life viewed l^om a particular subject position associated with a particular set of norms, beliefs, and values. Hence, they position the viewers across dynamic loci of subjectivities in terms of social distance, relations, and interaction. As both reflections and reproductions of reality, images in the coursebooks have the potent to influence learners' perspectives of the world presenting them with readymade cognitive schemes. In order to reveal a comprehensive picture of the visually depicted social actors and the identity options made available through them, in this study the author focused on the peopled photos of the 6 popularly traded ELT coursebooks. The author investigated them regarding the relations of social distance, involvement, power and interaction formed between the depicted social actors and their viewers as well as the emergent practices of exclusion, role allocation, genericization, specification, assimilation, individualization, and categorization. The results show that the representational repertoires of the coursebooks contain disproportionately distributed visual depictions of social actors in terms of cultural orientation and gender. The "culturally different" are repeatedly pictured in assimilative ways as an aggregate of enumerable people, while the social actors of the reference group are usually pictured individually and with their own intended meaning.展开更多
Fashion Film is the last communication tool in fashion market, that was born for the Web about 20 years ago, but in these last 10 years it has increased its diffusion and its expressive potentiality definitely and we ...Fashion Film is the last communication tool in fashion market, that was born for the Web about 20 years ago, but in these last 10 years it has increased its diffusion and its expressive potentiality definitely and we think that it is designed to influence the communication in other markets. Nowadays Fashion Films are reinforcing the power of fashion images, building up new brand experiences for net-consumers: they are painting new worlds for fashion brands thanks to the old cinematographic language mixed to recent Internet logics. Starting from this observation, our main question was: Can we talk about a new fashion net-aesthetics for these new fashion tales? Using a semiotics approach, this study investigates how Fashion, Cinema and the Net come together, producing new aesthetics, with new languages and new imaginary in fashion. The result can be really visionary.展开更多
Literature visualization has particular characteristics:multimodality in production;multimediality in the means of distribution;visualization of language forms.The basic changes of literature lie in mode- choosing ori...Literature visualization has particular characteristics:multimodality in production;multimediality in the means of distribution;visualization of language forms.The basic changes of literature lie in mode- choosing orientation and potentials that language and image offer for making meaning.Under the framework of multimodal semiotics,image and language are two modes nestled among a multimodal ensemble.Each mode and the interactions between them have the potential to contribute equally to meaning.Elucidating "image-language relation" from multimodality can make it clear that the particular characteristics of image and language don't change;the former describes visual effect,the latter constructs image with imagination.展开更多
As is known to all, language takes a significant role in communication and understanding. Actually, according to Systemic-Function and visual grammar, a varitey of semiotic resources such as image, color, could be ana...As is known to all, language takes a significant role in communication and understanding. Actually, according to Systemic-Function and visual grammar, a varitey of semiotic resources such as image, color, could be analysed and understood as a language. A movie poster is an example of decoding a complex intergration of a variety of semiotic resources. Through analysing a movie poster, it is clear to see how the realization of the three meta-functions based on Systemic-Function contributes to the overall meaning conveyed by movie posters.展开更多
Based on the theoretical origin of sociocultural views,this paper reviews second language writing from the sociocultural perspective in recent years and puts forw ard suggestions for the follow-up study. Research from...Based on the theoretical origin of sociocultural views,this paper reviews second language writing from the sociocultural perspective in recent years and puts forw ard suggestions for the follow-up study. Research from the sociocultural perspective adopts the overall qualitative research methods,with the sociocultural theories and dialogue theories being the framework,attaching importance to the writing process and social context,and concludes that the theoretical basis,research emphasis and methodology still needs perfection.展开更多
文摘Beyond the stories,Golding spends much effort on an issue called"impotence of language"in his works,especially Lord of the Flies and Darkness Visible.Thus Golding's language view is worthwhile to research.With help of Lacan's theory of signifier and signified,this paper made a primary glance about Golding's language view within the two novels.
文摘As a special social text,advertisement language is in a constantly developing state;it records the development of social value in its unique way.Since the Great Cultural Revolution,the contemporary Chinese advertisement language has been experienced courses from community to individuality,from morality and justice orientation to benefit orientation,and even from unification which presents the socialism's view of value to multiplication which contains the values of capitalism,market economy,feudalism and so on.The development of Chinese views of value impacts the development of Chinese advertisement languages.It can be also seen the development of values are reflected by the development of advertisement languages.
文摘The paper presents an analysis of computer programming languages based on the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce. The author describes how such languages could evolve in order to achieve some of the expressive characteristics of natural languages. This description evinces otherwise unnoticed differences between natural languages and programming languages, showing that Peircean semiotics is an efficient analysis tool. This suggests further research on the technical features needed to implement an easier way to program computers.
文摘The notion of communication is in essence that of information transmission in its simplest form—the semiotic encoding and decoding of messages that occur in every type of language,be that written,verbal,non-verbal,or animal.Taking form in an Aristotelian syllogism,this paper argues that graffiti constitutes its own art form that must be equally represented,examined,appreciated,and documented.By exploring how graffiti is art,how art is language,and therefore how graffiti is language,this paper seeks to expand its audience’s understanding of how artworks are underpinned by a similar semiotic structure to that of the written or verbal.Through theory and case studies of contemporary graffiti artists and their works,the notion of graffiti as a language that can be read and contextualized comes to life in a way that is both grounded in history and stunningly creative.
文摘In this paper, we conduct research on the development of Chinese contemporary literature trend under the language and cultureangle of view. Modern Chinese literature “unifi cation”, actually is to point to in traditional forming process, the new literature has alwaysemphasized performance to distinguish it from the old literary value connotation of thoughts, emotional content. Generalization of the contentfor later generations have don’t have much room for doubt, literary revolution advocates some extent is also the founder of Chinese modernliterature “unifi ed” have made clear, they are not only from the modern Chinese literature to argue that the traditional sense. For dealing withthis basic issue, we propose the countermeasures for the further and in-depth implementation that will then optimize the current research result onthe Chinese contemporary literature.
文摘As the second bestseller of Khaled Hosseini' s novels that spread all over the world,A Thousand Splendid Suns embodies the quite impressive and infective writing techniques and narrative power of its writer and it also shows the unique language style of Hosseini.This paper gives an explanation of the narrative point of view and analyses the specific examples in the text.Through deepening the transition of third-person point of view between the two characters,the paper demonstrates its stylistic effects in arranging the textual structure as well as building the characters,thus deepen the theme of the whole story.
基金support of the Interdisciplinary Research Team in Humanities and Social Sciences at Soochow University(Grant No.5033720623).
文摘The concept of authenticity has received much discussion in applied linguistics and educational studies.Valuable insights have been gained into how authenticity is problematised in language teaching and how to improve the situation by engaging learners with better-designed materials and activities.These achievements notwithstanding,empirical evidence remains insufficient to understand learners’meaning-making endeavours in real-life learning scenarios.The current study attempts to examine authenticity in additional language learning from a semiotic perspective,which may shed new light on the complex cognitive process of beginner learners’first encounter with a new language and how this process could be motivated and facilitated by teachers in a classroom setting.Evidence of semiotic articulation and production of authenticity from a low-pressure Spanish classroom is analysed focussing on cultural authenticity,interactive authenticity and authenticity of behaviour and engagement.The evidence is discussed to find how semiotic resources in combination with lived experiences may help learners’comprehension and appreciation of the target language and its culture.These findings reveal the relevance and value of semiotic approaches to language teaching research and provide practical implications for exposing pre-tertiary young learners to languages other than English for more diverse and extensive learning experiences.
文摘This paper introduces some theories concerning language transfer, such as behaviorist views and cognitive views, and the relationship between language transfer and contrastive and error analysis, interlanguage, fossilization, universial grammar. It is believed that incorporating the concept of language transfer in English teaching may facilitate students’ learning of the language.
文摘Alzheimer’s disease is accompanied by progressive aphasia which intensifies the cognitive problems. The quality of the care given to the patient influences, however, the evolution of his language difficulties. The way the vulnerable person is aided, and the extent to which his efforts to make himself understood by his human environment are validated, contribute to preventing the development of a feeling of failure, a tendency to give up, and retrogressive tendencies. Repetition of interpersonal disqualifiers, care dispensed neglecting inter subjectivity, to the contrary encourages the patient to limit contact with his environment and so precipitate his language difficulties. Aphasia is thus linked to the insufficiency of human communication. The consequences of this disorder can be limited by taking into account the phatic language function to keep communication channels open. The human relationship is an encounter, an act of mutual identity-giving. Alzheimer-patient identity break-down is linked to cognitive troubles and to the failure of patients’ relationship attempts.
文摘WANG Fu-chih is a well-established philosopher and a language master. This paper studies his language view through analyzing his poetic views and his views on the relationship between Name and Reality.
文摘Flash fiction is a kind of mini-sized story that contains no more than 1,000 words.This kind of fiction emerged alongwith the development of the times.Due to its short length,simple plot and limited words,it focuses on shaping the personality ofcharacters.Both the two flash fictions,"The Story of an Hour"and"The Unicorn in the Garden",express a similar theme of mar-riage,but they employ different ways to create characters.With a detailed comparison of the characters and the characterization be-tween the two works,this paper intends to explore the methods of shaping characters from point of view,psychological descriptionand language description.
文摘Toni Morrision's Beloved earns a wide degree of recognition for its stylistic brilliance and psychological depth in American liter ature and it is discussed not only as a presentation of slavery,but also as motherhood.This paper,in the light of Shklovsky's theory of defa miliarization,aims to exam the application of the techniques of defamiliarization in Beloved from the following two aspects:narrative point of view and language strategies.
文摘Departing from a brief presentation of the various views of language, this article elaborates the influence of views of language on language teaching and language testing. This will help us have background knowledge on language teaching and language testing.
文摘The aim of this study is to portray and explore the variety of social actors depicted visually along the pages of the intermediate level ELT coursebooks that are published locally (by British and American publishers) and marketed globally (mostly to the EFL contexts). For this, a thorough photo-ethnographic exploration of the visuals supported by the inventory of "social actor interaction network" is employed. In the field of Coursebook Analysis, visuals have attracted limited attention despite marking asocio-semiotically rich discursive field. In fact, the semiotic labor division between the "word" and the "image" in representing and reconstructing (simulating) the world, points to a gain on the part of the image as the brain is evolutionarily more experienced in processing visual information than processing verbal information. Therefore, images can appeal more directly to the sensory experience domains of the viewers via visual contact, evoking deeper consciousness. Acting as the prominent mediators of signification practice, visuals catalogue the representations and simulations of social-life viewed l^om a particular subject position associated with a particular set of norms, beliefs, and values. Hence, they position the viewers across dynamic loci of subjectivities in terms of social distance, relations, and interaction. As both reflections and reproductions of reality, images in the coursebooks have the potent to influence learners' perspectives of the world presenting them with readymade cognitive schemes. In order to reveal a comprehensive picture of the visually depicted social actors and the identity options made available through them, in this study the author focused on the peopled photos of the 6 popularly traded ELT coursebooks. The author investigated them regarding the relations of social distance, involvement, power and interaction formed between the depicted social actors and their viewers as well as the emergent practices of exclusion, role allocation, genericization, specification, assimilation, individualization, and categorization. The results show that the representational repertoires of the coursebooks contain disproportionately distributed visual depictions of social actors in terms of cultural orientation and gender. The "culturally different" are repeatedly pictured in assimilative ways as an aggregate of enumerable people, while the social actors of the reference group are usually pictured individually and with their own intended meaning.
文摘Fashion Film is the last communication tool in fashion market, that was born for the Web about 20 years ago, but in these last 10 years it has increased its diffusion and its expressive potentiality definitely and we think that it is designed to influence the communication in other markets. Nowadays Fashion Films are reinforcing the power of fashion images, building up new brand experiences for net-consumers: they are painting new worlds for fashion brands thanks to the old cinematographic language mixed to recent Internet logics. Starting from this observation, our main question was: Can we talk about a new fashion net-aesthetics for these new fashion tales? Using a semiotics approach, this study investigates how Fashion, Cinema and the Net come together, producing new aesthetics, with new languages and new imaginary in fashion. The result can be really visionary.
基金funded by 2013 humanistic and social science research project of the Education Department of Anhui Province(2013AJRW0150)2014 Planning Project of Philosophy and Social Sciences of Anhui Province(AHSKY2014D140)+1 种基金Project No.(JS2015HGXJ0074)Supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
文摘Literature visualization has particular characteristics:multimodality in production;multimediality in the means of distribution;visualization of language forms.The basic changes of literature lie in mode- choosing orientation and potentials that language and image offer for making meaning.Under the framework of multimodal semiotics,image and language are two modes nestled among a multimodal ensemble.Each mode and the interactions between them have the potential to contribute equally to meaning.Elucidating "image-language relation" from multimodality can make it clear that the particular characteristics of image and language don't change;the former describes visual effect,the latter constructs image with imagination.
文摘As is known to all, language takes a significant role in communication and understanding. Actually, according to Systemic-Function and visual grammar, a varitey of semiotic resources such as image, color, could be analysed and understood as a language. A movie poster is an example of decoding a complex intergration of a variety of semiotic resources. Through analysing a movie poster, it is clear to see how the realization of the three meta-functions based on Systemic-Function contributes to the overall meaning conveyed by movie posters.
文摘Based on the theoretical origin of sociocultural views,this paper reviews second language writing from the sociocultural perspective in recent years and puts forw ard suggestions for the follow-up study. Research from the sociocultural perspective adopts the overall qualitative research methods,with the sociocultural theories and dialogue theories being the framework,attaching importance to the writing process and social context,and concludes that the theoretical basis,research emphasis and methodology still needs perfection.