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
The author of this paper has recently carried out a survey on some minority students majoring inEnglish in Kunming,China.The survey,through interviews and a questionnaire,has found out thatthese minority students lear...The author of this paper has recently carried out a survey on some minority students majoring inEnglish in Kunming,China.The survey,through interviews and a questionnaire,has found out thatthese minority students learn English somewhat differently from the majority Chinese students in thatthe minority students learn English as L3.So they have interference from not only Chinese (L2) butalso their local language (L1).The purpose of this paper is to offer some information on how the mi-nority students with a local language (L1) and Chinese L2,learn English as L3.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The author of this paper has recently carried out a survey on some minority students majoring inEnglish in Kunming,China.The survey,through interviews and a questionnaire,has found out thatthese minority students learn English somewhat differently from the majority Chinese students in thatthe minority students learn English as L3.So they have interference from not only Chinese (L2) butalso their local language (L1).The purpose of this paper is to offer some information on how the mi-nority students with a local language (L1) and Chinese L2,learn English as L3.
