The typological classification of Chinese has provoked much controversy in both theoretical and empirical *** opinions co-exist:satellite-framed(Talmy,1985 & 1991),verb-framed(Fong,1997),equipollently-framed(Slobi...
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The typological classification of Chinese has provoked much controversy in both theoretical and empirical *** opinions co-exist:satellite-framed(Talmy,1985 & 1991),verb-framed(Fong,1997),equipollently-framed(Slobin,2004 & 2006) and simultaneously verb-framed and satellite-framed(Ji et al.,2011).In theoretical studies,the focus has been on general characteristics of the Chinese *** empirical studies,however,the focus has been on the distribution of different linguistic elements,generated by native Chinese *** has presented an undetected mismatch between the linguistic elements being ***, the majority of Mandarin Chinese speakers additionally speak a regional dialect that might be mutually unintelligible from Mandarin *** Archaic Chinese was a verb-framed language(Peyraube,2006;Xu,2008),it is possible that elements in these native speakers' local dialects are manifested in their spoken Mandarin,which will in turn complicate their oral *** paper will first illustrate this problem with examples from existing *** it will propose ways of balancing this mismatch through finer grained research *** it will discuss how this endeavor will not only shed light on the comparative studies between Chinese and English but also assist in the teaching of Chinese to English speakers.
The relation between rhetorical style and the formation of character has been an untiring topic in the sweep of rhetorical *** Thomas Wilson assumes in Arte of Rhetorique（1553）, style serves as the pedestal for ethi...
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The relation between rhetorical style and the formation of character has been an untiring topic in the sweep of rhetorical *** Thomas Wilson assumes in Arte of Rhetorique（1553）, style serves as the pedestal for ethical proof because it both embodies and develops the rhetor's *** also notices the ethos which style builds into the audience,and develops a system that acknowledges style rather than virtue as the channel through which the rhetor wins confidence of the Renaissance *** process of imprinting stylistic features upon human character,however,is not exclusive to the Western rhetorical *** goal in this paper is to exploit this commonality in Chinese and Western rhetorical traditions from a poetic stand.I will mainly focus on the shaping of the harmonious mind structure of the individual（and a mass socio-political ethos at large） through the harmonic mechanism in poetic style as a rhetorical agency during 11 -3 Century B.C.E.,which bore marked signs of the above mentioned process through the achievement of a structural harmony in the poetic agent per *** point is that the harmony within poetic structure can be transformed into the structure of mind,contributing to the general harmonious ethos of the society.
This study compares Chinese and English as well as some other languages with regard to three grammatical morphemes:demonstrative(DEM),copula(cpl) and contrastive focus marker (CFM).It is known in linguistic studies th...
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This study compares Chinese and English as well as some other languages with regard to three grammatical morphemes:demonstrative(DEM),copula(cpl) and contrastive focus marker (CFM).It is known in linguistic studies that gammaticalization often involves functional shift of the same form through reanalysis,etc.,resulting in formal identity between coexisting grammatical *** formal identity tends to be underlied by semantico-functional similarity between the categories concerned,especially when recurrent in diverse languages. Known as polysemy,it differs from true homonymy where formal identity is *** on polysemy to date include Schachter(1973) on relative clauses and clefts,Keenan & Hull(1973) on indirect questions and relative clauses,Langacker & Munro(1975) on reflexives and passives, Haiman(1985) on conditional protases and polar questions,Stein(1988) on English person endings and the periphrastic do,and Croft(1990) on directional and recipient to in *** general,polysemy may be considered a kind of meta-iconic isomorphism,where one form is preserved for one(general) meaning or discourse function(Bolinger 1977:x).According to Haiman(1985),isomorphism is iconic by virtue of relating one form to one meaning/function,and polysemy is a form of isomorphism by virtue of associating like forms with like meanings or ***,given that iconicity and economy are two competing motivations for linguistic forms(Haiman 1985),questions arise as to whether it is possible for grammatical polysemies to be motivated by both forces,and how such compromise is achieved.
Since China began her policies on economic reform and opening up entering into and interacting with a global economy,a growing need within China to learn foreign languages, especially English,is increasingly ***,in th...
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Since China began her policies on economic reform and opening up entering into and interacting with a global economy,a growing need within China to learn foreign languages, especially English,is increasingly ***,in the 1990's China's foreign language training sector emerged,and is now fiercely *** desire to succeed in the international economy,to go abroad,and pass national and international foreign language exams has fed the demand for the services of proprietary language *** 2010,the foreign language market's total value was estimated to be approximately 30 billion RMB,with over 50,000 language schools within ***,as there is currently no centrally governing agency to enforce standards upon these schools,foreign language schools have no real accountability for quality control and thus the effectiveness of each school *** of the end of 2011,there are two publically listed foreign language schools based in China,New Oriental Education & Technology Group and Global Education & Technology Group *** the foreign language school sector, brand names and what they are advertised to deliver to the students seems to carry more value than official results or *** of the top brands within this field gather clients by having the entrepreneur or high level managers giving inspirational speeches at local schools. As the trend of opening up proprietary language schools could also be seen as the businessification of education,teachers and school leaders seem to treat teaching English as a money making venture rather than to increase knowledge and *** top brands strive to give the consumer what they want,which in the Chinese market tends to be increased test scores, without an increase in the actual use of English outside of the test taking *** these students raise their test scores and study abroad,many struggle due to inadequate preparation of how to use the *** research has
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