GIFs,short audio-free loops of moving sequences,are active members of social semiotic resources in the era of Internet 2.0 that could generate humor,mediate power and signal identity.This paper proposes the perspectiv...GIFs,short audio-free loops of moving sequences,are active members of social semiotic resources in the era of Internet 2.0 that could generate humor,mediate power and signal identity.This paper proposes the perspective of visual nominalization and visual telicity as GIF properties that,in the environment of social media technologies,become capable of expressing polyphonic evaluation,transcontexualized polysemy,and dual deixis.Visual nominalization expresses the freeing of movement from integration into a time-dependent narrative and the abstraction resulting in deemphasized participants and emphasized processes.These traits are activated and realized by visual telicity,which is looping move-ment that can be conceptualized as an atelic visual container which packages and expresses both telic and atelic processes.This paper argues that visual nomina-lization and visual telicity are what establishes GIFs'semiotic differences from still images and flm videos,and facilitates their integration with written language in online and computer-mediated discourse.展开更多
The English Middle Construction (EMC), as a piculiar syntactic structure, shares its semantic features, but diversifies in its syntactic configuration compared with other languages. This paper tries to have a contrast...The English Middle Construction (EMC), as a piculiar syntactic structure, shares its semantic features, but diversifies in its syntactic configuration compared with other languages. This paper tries to have a contrast study of the Middle Construcitons between English and Chinese and find the two languages share the same semantic features that the incompatibility between the semantic quantitatives (SQs) of the Adverb (Adjunct in the syntactic term) and the SQs of the Verb denoted by the predicate of MC leads to the deactivization of the predicate by means of the Adjunct, functioning as a quantitative device, assign delimitation to the predicate, hence ensures the grammaticality of the construction. But syntatically, we agree that the NP Movement Approach accounts for the formation of EMC, while we argue in Chinese it is the verb raising that results in the MC. This paper first represents the structural representation of the English Middle Construction; then the structural analysis is elaborated in comparison with that in Chinese, based on the previous studies; and finally the motivations of the Ecs in the perspective of syntactic and semantic functions are explored and hence a new hypothesis is raised to probe the similar construction in Chinese.展开更多
This paper aims to explore the relationship between boundedness and sentence completion. We found that it is the boundedness of eventualities instead of telicity of verbs that virtually affects and restricts sentence ...This paper aims to explore the relationship between boundedness and sentence completion. We found that it is the boundedness of eventualities instead of telicity of verbs that virtually affects and restricts sentence completion. Unboundedness and boundedness of eventualities are the underlying factors that influence and restrict sentence completion while sentence-completing elements are explicit markers of boundedness and unboundedness.展开更多
文摘GIFs,short audio-free loops of moving sequences,are active members of social semiotic resources in the era of Internet 2.0 that could generate humor,mediate power and signal identity.This paper proposes the perspective of visual nominalization and visual telicity as GIF properties that,in the environment of social media technologies,become capable of expressing polyphonic evaluation,transcontexualized polysemy,and dual deixis.Visual nominalization expresses the freeing of movement from integration into a time-dependent narrative and the abstraction resulting in deemphasized participants and emphasized processes.These traits are activated and realized by visual telicity,which is looping move-ment that can be conceptualized as an atelic visual container which packages and expresses both telic and atelic processes.This paper argues that visual nomina-lization and visual telicity are what establishes GIFs'semiotic differences from still images and flm videos,and facilitates their integration with written language in online and computer-mediated discourse.
文摘The English Middle Construction (EMC), as a piculiar syntactic structure, shares its semantic features, but diversifies in its syntactic configuration compared with other languages. This paper tries to have a contrast study of the Middle Construcitons between English and Chinese and find the two languages share the same semantic features that the incompatibility between the semantic quantitatives (SQs) of the Adverb (Adjunct in the syntactic term) and the SQs of the Verb denoted by the predicate of MC leads to the deactivization of the predicate by means of the Adjunct, functioning as a quantitative device, assign delimitation to the predicate, hence ensures the grammaticality of the construction. But syntatically, we agree that the NP Movement Approach accounts for the formation of EMC, while we argue in Chinese it is the verb raising that results in the MC. This paper first represents the structural representation of the English Middle Construction; then the structural analysis is elaborated in comparison with that in Chinese, based on the previous studies; and finally the motivations of the Ecs in the perspective of syntactic and semantic functions are explored and hence a new hypothesis is raised to probe the similar construction in Chinese.
文摘This paper aims to explore the relationship between boundedness and sentence completion. We found that it is the boundedness of eventualities instead of telicity of verbs that virtually affects and restricts sentence completion. Unboundedness and boundedness of eventualities are the underlying factors that influence and restrict sentence completion while sentence-completing elements are explicit markers of boundedness and unboundedness.
