Memetics is a theory based on biology that explains cultural transmission.Memes are the basic units of cultural transmission.Culture-loaded words refer to unique vocabulary and idioms within a certain culture,reflecti...Memetics is a theory based on biology that explains cultural transmission.Memes are the basic units of cultural transmission.Culture-loaded words refer to unique vocabulary and idioms within a certain culture,reflecting the history,society,and lifestyles of different countries and ethnicities.Due to significant cultural differences between the Western world and China,translating culture-loaded words poses an unavoidable challenge for translators.This paper uses memetics as its theoretical foundation,classifies cultures according to Nida’s categories,and analyzes the application of memetics in the English translation of culture-loaded words through examples.展开更多
The main purpose of foreign language teaching(FLT) is not only to transmit knowledge of FL,but also to cultivate the pragmatic ability of learners on the base of practical communicative background.However,in what way ...The main purpose of foreign language teaching(FLT) is not only to transmit knowledge of FL,but also to cultivate the pragmatic ability of learners on the base of practical communicative background.However,in what way that pragmatic instruction can be carried out effectively and reasonably remains a problem in FLT.Memetics as a kind of new theory which explains cultural evolution tends to place some implications on FL pragmatic instruction.This article focuses on the creative approaches of pragmatic instruction with the combination to the transmittable features of meme-copying-fidelity,fecundity and longevity.展开更多
Memetics is originally a theory for interpreting cultural evolution. Memes, coined to disclose a strong analogy with genes, are ideas that spread through human cultures and across the generation. As cultural replicato...Memetics is originally a theory for interpreting cultural evolution. Memes, coined to disclose a strong analogy with genes, are ideas that spread through human cultures and across the generation. As cultural replicators, memes are propagated and transmitted through imitation; language, as part of culture, produces under the influence of memes. This paper discusses the relationship between language and culture and that between language and memes. In addition, the classification of linguistic memes and the survival law residing in the memes are also expounded. The next research will focus on the impact of linguistic memes on translation and language teaching.展开更多
AIM： Biological medicine is hard to fully and scientifically explain the etiological factor and pathogenesis of abnormal behaviors; while, researches on philosophy and psychology （including memetics） are beneficial...AIM： Biological medicine is hard to fully and scientifically explain the etiological factor and pathogenesis of abnormal behaviors; while, researches on philosophy and psychology （including memetics） are beneficial to better understand and explain etiological factor and pathogenesis of abnormal behaviors. At present, the theory of philosophy and psychology is to investigate the entity of abnormal behavior based on the views of memetics. METHODS： Abnormal behavior was researched in this study based on three aspects, including instinctive behavior disorder, poorly social-adapted behavior disorder and mental or body disease associated behavior disorder. Most main viewpoints of memetics were derived from ＂The Meme Machine＂, which was written by Susan Blackmore. When questions about abnormal behaviors induced by mental and psychological diseases and conduct disorder of teenagers were discussed, some researching achievements which were summarized by authors previously were added in this study, such as aggressive behaviors, pathologically aggressive behaviors, etc. RESULTS： The abnormal behaviors mainly referred to a part of people＇s substandard behaviors which were not according with the realistic social environment, culture background and the pathologic behaviors resulted from people＇s various psychological diseases. According to the theory of ＂meme＂, it demonstrated that the relevant behavioral obstacles of various psychological diseases, for example, the unusual behavior of schizophrenia, were caused, because the old meme was destroyed thoroughly but the new meme was unable to establish; psychoneurosis and personality disorder were resulted in hard establishment of meme; the behavioral obstacles which were ill-adapted to society, for example, various additional and homosexual behaviors, were because of the selfish replications and imitations of ＂additional meme＂ and ＂homosexual meme＂; various instinct behavioral and congenital intelligent obstacles were not significance for memetics. CONCLUSION： Generation of abnormal behavior is not only caused by complexly biological factors, also by philosophical and psychological entities.展开更多
With the advancement of information technology and in the current development of the network society,the emerging network language,driven by strong language memes,continually derives and spreads.Based on memetics,the ...With the advancement of information technology and in the current development of the network society,the emerging network language,driven by strong language memes,continually derives and spreads.Based on memetics,the paper analyzes the memes phenomenon of Chinese network catchwords in 2018 and that it can be categorized into three forms.And it further explores the reasons for the popularity of network catchwords:simplicity,vividness,and defamiliarization.展开更多
Chinese Ci and Fu has a wide selection of materials and contains rich words.It is extensive and profound which is rich in Chinese cultural connotation and national characteristics.D.R.Knechtges is a famous Sinologist,...Chinese Ci and Fu has a wide selection of materials and contains rich words.It is extensive and profound which is rich in Chinese cultural connotation and national characteristics.D.R.Knechtges is a famous Sinologist,specializing in Ci and Fu and being proficient in Wen Xuan.His translation of the Fu in Wen Xuan was a masterpiece.Through the perspective of memetics,this paper studies five kinds of culture-loaded words in Knechtges’version about Fu in Wen Xuan,analyzes translation strategies used in these translations,and discusses the transmission mechanism of the culture memes which are culture-loaded words.Then get the conclusion,the mode which is given priority to with foreignization,domestication strategy as the auxiliary pole,combination of transliteration,literal translation,free translation,and annotation translation method,is advantageous to the culture-loaded words in the target language culture becoming a strong memes and spreading widely in the foreign countries.展开更多
Memetics confirms the importance of recitation and imitation in college English teaching.Starting with the explanation of the replication cycle of language memes,this paper discusses how to use the memetic perspective...Memetics confirms the importance of recitation and imitation in college English teaching.Starting with the explanation of the replication cycle of language memes,this paper discusses how to use the memetic perspective in college English listening and speaking teaching,effectively transform the input language information into language output,and improve the classroom effect of college English listening and speaking teaching.展开更多
On June 10,2022,a vicious violence event occurred in Tangshan,which attracted great attention on the Internet,and also caused chain reactions in the society,such as personal safety panic,fierce gender opposition,onlin...On June 10,2022,a vicious violence event occurred in Tangshan,which attracted great attention on the Internet,and also caused chain reactions in the society,such as personal safety panic,fierce gender opposition,online reporting boom,and other ripple effect.There was a lot of counter comments against this event on the Internet.According to incomplete statistics,the counterattacks against Tangshan violence generally include five types:accusation,encouragement,empathy,irony,and retrospection.These counterattacks have the same profound impact as the brutal event itself,and the formation and development of this social impact can be explained and analyzed more or less through memetics.From the perspective of memetics,this paper will make a pragmatic analysis of the online counterattack against the Tangshan violence.The language materials are collected from the highly recognized and widely spreading posts and influential comments on social media such as Sina Weibo and Xiaohongshu.The results show that due to the existence of individual differences,different meme hosts have different understandings of the connotation of linguistic memes,and this understanding bias may lead to different meme hosts having completely different subjective attitudes when dealing with the same linguistic memes.展开更多
Along with the development of new media such as film and television, the phenomenon of language variation has sprung up in the world. The variation of campus catchwords not only meets the demand of college students, a...Along with the development of new media such as film and television, the phenomenon of language variation has sprung up in the world. The variation of campus catchwords not only meets the demand of college students, and also expands with a great influence to the development of the modern Chinese language. In this paper, the application of campus catchword variation to guiding the teaching and learning of college English from the perspective of memetics is discussed and also the related reasons are analyzed.展开更多
This article argues that each important aspect of language communication has to be studied,which is conductive to the growth of linguistic knowledge and harmonious development of language life.In modern daily communic...This article argues that each important aspect of language communication has to be studied,which is conductive to the growth of linguistic knowledge and harmonious development of language life.In modern daily communication,language as a kind of meme plays a crucial and indispensable role in the process of social interaction.This article will concentrate on the emerging English loan words to explore its linguistic value.展开更多
Brand name translation plays an important role in foreign trade.From the perspective of memetics,this paper analyzes the sales and popularity of Luxury and Safeguard in China,discusses the persistence of Memetics and ...Brand name translation plays an important role in foreign trade.From the perspective of memetics,this paper analyzes the sales and popularity of Luxury and Safeguard in China,discusses the persistence of Memetics and the cross-language transmission of brand memes,which is helpful for translators to translate authentic brand names,so as to speed up the reproduction and dissemination of brand names,increase the probability of becoming a strong meme,and enhance the international popularity of brands.展开更多
文摘Memetics is a theory based on biology that explains cultural transmission.Memes are the basic units of cultural transmission.Culture-loaded words refer to unique vocabulary and idioms within a certain culture,reflecting the history,society,and lifestyles of different countries and ethnicities.Due to significant cultural differences between the Western world and China,translating culture-loaded words poses an unavoidable challenge for translators.This paper uses memetics as its theoretical foundation,classifies cultures according to Nida’s categories,and analyzes the application of memetics in the English translation of culture-loaded words through examples.
文摘The main purpose of foreign language teaching(FLT) is not only to transmit knowledge of FL,but also to cultivate the pragmatic ability of learners on the base of practical communicative background.However,in what way that pragmatic instruction can be carried out effectively and reasonably remains a problem in FLT.Memetics as a kind of new theory which explains cultural evolution tends to place some implications on FL pragmatic instruction.This article focuses on the creative approaches of pragmatic instruction with the combination to the transmittable features of meme-copying-fidelity,fecundity and longevity.
文摘Memetics is originally a theory for interpreting cultural evolution. Memes, coined to disclose a strong analogy with genes, are ideas that spread through human cultures and across the generation. As cultural replicators, memes are propagated and transmitted through imitation; language, as part of culture, produces under the influence of memes. This paper discusses the relationship between language and culture and that between language and memes. In addition, the classification of linguistic memes and the survival law residing in the memes are also expounded. The next research will focus on the impact of linguistic memes on translation and language teaching.
基金the Scientific and Technological Programof Sichuan Public Health Bureau, No. 050104TenthFive-Year Key Research Project in 2005 of Philosophy and Social Science of Sichuan Province (MunicipalProgram) Social Science Key Project of Luzhou in2005
文摘AIM： Biological medicine is hard to fully and scientifically explain the etiological factor and pathogenesis of abnormal behaviors; while, researches on philosophy and psychology （including memetics） are beneficial to better understand and explain etiological factor and pathogenesis of abnormal behaviors. At present, the theory of philosophy and psychology is to investigate the entity of abnormal behavior based on the views of memetics. METHODS： Abnormal behavior was researched in this study based on three aspects, including instinctive behavior disorder, poorly social-adapted behavior disorder and mental or body disease associated behavior disorder. Most main viewpoints of memetics were derived from ＂The Meme Machine＂, which was written by Susan Blackmore. When questions about abnormal behaviors induced by mental and psychological diseases and conduct disorder of teenagers were discussed, some researching achievements which were summarized by authors previously were added in this study, such as aggressive behaviors, pathologically aggressive behaviors, etc. RESULTS： The abnormal behaviors mainly referred to a part of people＇s substandard behaviors which were not according with the realistic social environment, culture background and the pathologic behaviors resulted from people＇s various psychological diseases. According to the theory of ＂meme＂, it demonstrated that the relevant behavioral obstacles of various psychological diseases, for example, the unusual behavior of schizophrenia, were caused, because the old meme was destroyed thoroughly but the new meme was unable to establish; psychoneurosis and personality disorder were resulted in hard establishment of meme; the behavioral obstacles which were ill-adapted to society, for example, various additional and homosexual behaviors, were because of the selfish replications and imitations of ＂additional meme＂ and ＂homosexual meme＂; various instinct behavioral and congenital intelligent obstacles were not significance for memetics. CONCLUSION： Generation of abnormal behavior is not only caused by complexly biological factors, also by philosophical and psychological entities.
文摘With the advancement of information technology and in the current development of the network society,the emerging network language,driven by strong language memes,continually derives and spreads.Based on memetics,the paper analyzes the memes phenomenon of Chinese network catchwords in 2018 and that it can be categorized into three forms.And it further explores the reasons for the popularity of network catchwords:simplicity,vividness,and defamiliarization.
基金This paper is sponsored by the Postgraduate Creative Foundation of Gannan Normal University entitled“模因论视域下康达维辞赋译本中文化负载词的英译研究”(YCX20A042).
文摘Chinese Ci and Fu has a wide selection of materials and contains rich words.It is extensive and profound which is rich in Chinese cultural connotation and national characteristics.D.R.Knechtges is a famous Sinologist,specializing in Ci and Fu and being proficient in Wen Xuan.His translation of the Fu in Wen Xuan was a masterpiece.Through the perspective of memetics,this paper studies five kinds of culture-loaded words in Knechtges’version about Fu in Wen Xuan,analyzes translation strategies used in these translations,and discusses the transmission mechanism of the culture memes which are culture-loaded words.Then get the conclusion,the mode which is given priority to with foreignization,domestication strategy as the auxiliary pole,combination of transliteration,literal translation,free translation,and annotation translation method,is advantageous to the culture-loaded words in the target language culture becoming a strong memes and spreading widely in the foreign countries.
文摘Memetics confirms the importance of recitation and imitation in college English teaching.Starting with the explanation of the replication cycle of language memes,this paper discusses how to use the memetic perspective in college English listening and speaking teaching,effectively transform the input language information into language output,and improve the classroom effect of college English listening and speaking teaching.
文摘On June 10,2022,a vicious violence event occurred in Tangshan,which attracted great attention on the Internet,and also caused chain reactions in the society,such as personal safety panic,fierce gender opposition,online reporting boom,and other ripple effect.There was a lot of counter comments against this event on the Internet.According to incomplete statistics,the counterattacks against Tangshan violence generally include five types:accusation,encouragement,empathy,irony,and retrospection.These counterattacks have the same profound impact as the brutal event itself,and the formation and development of this social impact can be explained and analyzed more or less through memetics.From the perspective of memetics,this paper will make a pragmatic analysis of the online counterattack against the Tangshan violence.The language materials are collected from the highly recognized and widely spreading posts and influential comments on social media such as Sina Weibo and Xiaohongshu.The results show that due to the existence of individual differences,different meme hosts have different understandings of the connotation of linguistic memes,and this understanding bias may lead to different meme hosts having completely different subjective attitudes when dealing with the same linguistic memes.
文摘Along with the development of new media such as film and television, the phenomenon of language variation has sprung up in the world. The variation of campus catchwords not only meets the demand of college students, and also expands with a great influence to the development of the modern Chinese language. In this paper, the application of campus catchword variation to guiding the teaching and learning of college English from the perspective of memetics is discussed and also the related reasons are analyzed.
文摘This article argues that each important aspect of language communication has to be studied,which is conductive to the growth of linguistic knowledge and harmonious development of language life.In modern daily communication,language as a kind of meme plays a crucial and indispensable role in the process of social interaction.This article will concentrate on the emerging English loan words to explore its linguistic value.
文摘Brand name translation plays an important role in foreign trade.From the perspective of memetics,this paper analyzes the sales and popularity of Luxury and Safeguard in China,discusses the persistence of Memetics and the cross-language transmission of brand memes,which is helpful for translators to translate authentic brand names,so as to speed up the reproduction and dissemination of brand names,increase the probability of becoming a strong meme,and enhance the international popularity of brands.
