This study integrates explicit input enhancement into comparative continuation writing,defined as a task in which learners produce a continuation by comparing their own expression with an input text,aligning with its ...This study integrates explicit input enhancement into comparative continuation writing,defined as a task in which learners produce a continuation by comparing their own expression with an input text,aligning with its discourse structure and linguistic features,while developing their own ideas.It aims to examine whether English as a Foreign Language(EFL)learners in China exhibit differences in discourse competence and writing performance when completing comparative continuation writing combined with different input enhancement techniques,and whether the alignment effect occurs at the discourse level.Sixty first-year Chinese senior middle school students were divided into four groups:three groups engaged in comparative continuation writing with varying input enhancement,achieved by combining different techniques,while a control group performed a designated-topic writing task.The results revealed that three comparative continuation writing groups outperformed the designated-topic writing group in discourse competence,particularly in the use of temporal connectives.However,differences and some inconsistencies were observed among the comparative continuation writing groups across individual indices.The study highlights effective ways to incorporate comparative continuation writing into English instruction and demonstrates how explicit input enhancement can complement the task,simultaneously activating the alignment effect proposed by the xu-argument and enhancing discourse competence in writing.展开更多
As a Burundian doctoral student at Nanjing University,my personal journey is closely intertwined with China’s development in the new era and the deepening China-Africa partnership.Recently,my experiences have given m...As a Burundian doctoral student at Nanjing University,my personal journey is closely intertwined with China’s development in the new era and the deepening China-Africa partnership.Recently,my experiences have given me a deeper appreciation of the importance of people-to-people exchanges between China and Africa.展开更多
The discourse marker ni hai bie shuo(你还别说)often appears at the beginning of a sentence,connecting to a rich variety of clause types.Its co-occurring words are mostly those expressing subjective evaluation.The subs...The discourse marker ni hai bie shuo(你还别说)often appears at the beginning of a sentence,connecting to a rich variety of clause types.Its co-occurring words are mostly those expressing subjective evaluation.The subsequent discourse it connects to mainly consists of three clause types:explanatory,resultative,and adversative.The basic semantic structure of the segment in which it appears is:(S1)+ni hai bie shuo+S2.It serves seven textual functions,such as the agreement function,negation function,reminding function,and topic-shifting function.展开更多
With the advent of Internet age,the audience can enjoy more"autonomy"from the internet than from other media.In consequence,it is said that people can keep"clear-minded"before Netnews,and ideology ...With the advent of Internet age,the audience can enjoy more"autonomy"from the internet than from other media.In consequence,it is said that people can keep"clear-minded"before Netnews,and ideology has been weakened and will even disappear in Netnews. However,from a textual perspective,ideology has been strengthened rather than weakened in Netnews.展开更多
Mulan,the cartoon rewritten by Disney based on the traditional Chinese folklore,won tremendous praises globally.Under the theoretical framework of the three-dimensional model of critical discourse analysis proposed by...Mulan,the cartoon rewritten by Disney based on the traditional Chinese folklore,won tremendous praises globally.Under the theoretical framework of the three-dimensional model of critical discourse analysis proposed by Norman Fairclough,this research tries to analyze the unique discourse features of Mulan.By the successive analyses of description,interpretation and explanation,this research studies the discourse strategies of Disney movies represented by Mulan,the transmitted ideologies,the causes of the discourse formation and the social effects of the discourse,providing a paradigm for the establishment of Chinese multicultural discourses.展开更多
The selection of context is not random but limited by linguistic communicators'cognitive environment.Sperber &Wilson propose a more persuasive inferential model on the basis of Grice's theory.They think la...The selection of context is not random but limited by linguistic communicators'cognitive environment.Sperber &Wilson propose a more persuasive inferential model on the basis of Grice's theory.They think language communication is a de ductive and inferential process in which the communicators deal with the information in the context,a set of assumptions,and finally infer the meaning.Since a discourse is the work of language and the product of the process of linguistic communication,the inferential model will also adapt to the discourse analysis.With the inferential model as its basic analyzing framework,this paper puts discourse in a dynamic communicative process to investigate how the discourse receiver selects the context to make the com munication succeed.展开更多
Discourse is a kind of ostensive-inferential communication.Discourse as a communication always occurs in certain context which helps us interpret an utterance.Obviously,context or contextual assumptions play a crucial...Discourse is a kind of ostensive-inferential communication.Discourse as a communication always occurs in certain context which helps us interpret an utterance.Obviously,context or contextual assumptions play a crucial role in answering these questions.Therefore,the crucial point to solve the problem of discourse coherence is how to select the contexts.Context selection is not random but limited by the language users'cognitive environment.According to Relevance Theory,context selection is achieved through seeking for relevance.展开更多
The debate on the marketization of discourse in higher education has sparked and sustained interest among researchers in discourse and education studies across a diversity of contexts.While most research in this line ...The debate on the marketization of discourse in higher education has sparked and sustained interest among researchers in discourse and education studies across a diversity of contexts.While most research in this line has focused on marketized discourses such as advertisements,little attention has been paid to promotional discourse in public institutions such as the About us texts on Chinese university websites.The goal of the present study is twofold:first,to describe the generic features of the university About us texts in China;and second,to analyze how promotional discourse is interdiscursively incorporated in the discourse by referring to the broader sociopolitical context.Findings have indicated five main moves:giving an overview,stressing historical status,displaying strengths,pledging political and ideological allegiance,and communicating goals and visions.Move 3,displaying strengths,has the greatest amount of information and can be further divided into six sub-moves which presents information on campus facilities,faculty team,talent cultivation,disciplinary fields construction,academic research,and international exchange.The main linguistic and rhetorical strategies used in these moves are analyzed and discussed.展开更多
With the rapid development of modern technology,textbooks have been undergoing great changes from the traditionallypaper-based form to the multimodal form.Multimodality has become a major feature of textbook discourse...With the rapid development of modern technology,textbooks have been undergoing great changes from the traditionallypaper-based form to the multimodal form.Multimodality has become a major feature of textbook discourse.Multimodal discourseanalysis is a new approach to discourse analysis based on the semiotic theory of systemic functional linguistics.This paper providesa detailed review of multimodal discourse analysis(hereafter MDA) in modern linguistics and some previous researches on textbookdiscourse.Then it further outlines what have already been done on textbook discourse from the perspective of MDA.展开更多
This paper aims at exploring how the learners' discourse competence could be fully developed in second language acquisition facilitated by teachers through analysis of a piece of written discourse.
The aim of this essay is to explore several possible strategies that can facilitate the learners'grammatical competence development through the analysis of grammatical features of a media text and help to explore ...The aim of this essay is to explore several possible strategies that can facilitate the learners'grammatical competence development through the analysis of grammatical features of a media text and help to explore the potential of developing grammatical competence in language teaching context.展开更多
Discourse markers(DMs)in many languages have been investigated from various theoretical perspectives and within diverse methodological paradigms for decades.Studies within the field of DMs are accelerating rapidly;how...Discourse markers(DMs)in many languages have been investigated from various theoretical perspectives and within diverse methodological paradigms for decades.Studies within the field of DMs are accelerating rapidly;however,few state-of-the-art reviews have been conducted to systematically inform scholars of the current landscape of DM research.This investigation conducted a comprehensive review of 2,183 studies from 2009 to 2022,leveraging CiteSpace for bibliometric analysis.The study aims to illuminate emerging trends and focal areas within DM research and lay the groundwork for further interdisciplinary exploration and collaboration in this area.The analysis reveals a growing interest in DM studies,identifies leading contributors,including countries,universities,and scholars,highlights the most cited journals and references shaping the field,and delineates prevalent research themes and topics,as well as methodological approaches employed.These findings indicate that DM research has evolved from a linguistic inquiry into an interdisciplinary domain employing varied methodologies such as qualitative and/or quantitative,experimental,and synchronic and/or diachronic.This study can provide important implications for future research in terms of the pragmatic turn,interdisciplinary nature,expansion of data from English to various other languages,and diversified methodologies.展开更多
Nominalization,as the main means of reaching grammatical metaphor,is one of the distinctive features of written corpora and plays an important role in the discourse construction of news discourse.Based on the theory o...Nominalization,as the main means of reaching grammatical metaphor,is one of the distinctive features of written corpora and plays an important role in the discourse construction of news discourse.Based on the theory of grammatical metaphor,this article discusses the phenomenon of nominalization and its translation strategies in news discourse by analyzing translation examples.It is found that nominalization structure can effectively enhance the informativeness and objectivity of news discourse.When translating from Chinese to English,the translator should take into full consideration of the different characteristics of the two languages,and convert the predicates,subject-predicate structures,verb-object structures and clauses into nominalization structures.Through this translation strategy,the translation will be more in line with the English language characteristics and usage habits,and can accurately convey the information of the original text,finally realizing the effective translation of the language.展开更多
Chinese political discourse is the embodiment of the will of the people,the will of the CPC and the will of China.Conceptual metaphor is closely related to political discourse.Taking the 2022 government work report as...Chinese political discourse is the embodiment of the will of the people,the will of the CPC and the will of China.Conceptual metaphor is closely related to political discourse.Taking the 2022 government work report as an example,this paper discusses the metaphor problems in political discourse,and analyzes the metaphorical expressions and their functions in political discourse.Based on this,eco-translatology is used to analyze the translation strategies of metaphors in political discourse to help Chinese political discourse get better publicity.展开更多
Corporate image is the external manifestation of a company’s cultural and spiritual essence,as well as the overall impression formed through its interactions with the public.Huawei,as a successful multinational enter...Corporate image is the external manifestation of a company’s cultural and spiritual essence,as well as the overall impression formed through its interactions with the public.Huawei,as a successful multinational enterprise,has established a robust corporate image in the international market through technological innovation and brand building.Moreover,Huawei’s development is closely aligned with national policies and strategies,making it a representative enterprise for showcasing China’s technological independence and national image.This study examines Huawei’s English press releases on product launches published between 2022 and 2024 and conducts a comparative analysis with similar materials from Apple’s official website.Based on Fairclough’s three-dimensional discourse analysis model,this research explores the linguistic features of Huawei’s corporate image construction from the perspectives of text,discourse practice,and social practice.The findings reveal that Huawei has successfully constructed a corporate image that emphasizes technological innovation,prioritizes user needs,and underscores its identity as a national enterprise.This study not only sheds light on Huawei’s strategies for image construction in international competition but also provides a valuable reference for Chinese enterprises in their cultural communication and brand building during the globalization process.展开更多
文摘This study integrates explicit input enhancement into comparative continuation writing,defined as a task in which learners produce a continuation by comparing their own expression with an input text,aligning with its discourse structure and linguistic features,while developing their own ideas.It aims to examine whether English as a Foreign Language(EFL)learners in China exhibit differences in discourse competence and writing performance when completing comparative continuation writing combined with different input enhancement techniques,and whether the alignment effect occurs at the discourse level.Sixty first-year Chinese senior middle school students were divided into four groups:three groups engaged in comparative continuation writing with varying input enhancement,achieved by combining different techniques,while a control group performed a designated-topic writing task.The results revealed that three comparative continuation writing groups outperformed the designated-topic writing group in discourse competence,particularly in the use of temporal connectives.However,differences and some inconsistencies were observed among the comparative continuation writing groups across individual indices.The study highlights effective ways to incorporate comparative continuation writing into English instruction and demonstrates how explicit input enhancement can complement the task,simultaneously activating the alignment effect proposed by the xu-argument and enhancing discourse competence in writing.
文摘As a Burundian doctoral student at Nanjing University,my personal journey is closely intertwined with China’s development in the new era and the deepening China-Africa partnership.Recently,my experiences have given me a deeper appreciation of the importance of people-to-people exchanges between China and Africa.
文摘The discourse marker ni hai bie shuo(你还别说)often appears at the beginning of a sentence,connecting to a rich variety of clause types.Its co-occurring words are mostly those expressing subjective evaluation.The subsequent discourse it connects to mainly consists of three clause types:explanatory,resultative,and adversative.The basic semantic structure of the segment in which it appears is:(S1)+ni hai bie shuo+S2.It serves seven textual functions,such as the agreement function,negation function,reminding function,and topic-shifting function.
文摘With the advent of Internet age,the audience can enjoy more"autonomy"from the internet than from other media.In consequence,it is said that people can keep"clear-minded"before Netnews,and ideology has been weakened and will even disappear in Netnews. However,from a textual perspective,ideology has been strengthened rather than weakened in Netnews.
文摘Mulan,the cartoon rewritten by Disney based on the traditional Chinese folklore,won tremendous praises globally.Under the theoretical framework of the three-dimensional model of critical discourse analysis proposed by Norman Fairclough,this research tries to analyze the unique discourse features of Mulan.By the successive analyses of description,interpretation and explanation,this research studies the discourse strategies of Disney movies represented by Mulan,the transmitted ideologies,the causes of the discourse formation and the social effects of the discourse,providing a paradigm for the establishment of Chinese multicultural discourses.
文摘The selection of context is not random but limited by linguistic communicators'cognitive environment.Sperber &Wilson propose a more persuasive inferential model on the basis of Grice's theory.They think language communication is a de ductive and inferential process in which the communicators deal with the information in the context,a set of assumptions,and finally infer the meaning.Since a discourse is the work of language and the product of the process of linguistic communication,the inferential model will also adapt to the discourse analysis.With the inferential model as its basic analyzing framework,this paper puts discourse in a dynamic communicative process to investigate how the discourse receiver selects the context to make the com munication succeed.
文摘Discourse is a kind of ostensive-inferential communication.Discourse as a communication always occurs in certain context which helps us interpret an utterance.Obviously,context or contextual assumptions play a crucial role in answering these questions.Therefore,the crucial point to solve the problem of discourse coherence is how to select the contexts.Context selection is not random but limited by the language users'cognitive environment.According to Relevance Theory,context selection is achieved through seeking for relevance.
基金This study is supported by the Chinese Ministry of Education(MOE)Humanities and Social Science Research Funding(20YJA740050)the MOE Key Research Project of Humanities and Social Science(16JJD740006)conducted by the Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics(CLAL),Guangdong University of Foreign Studies(GDUFS).We would like to thank the reviewers for their comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this manuscript.
文摘The debate on the marketization of discourse in higher education has sparked and sustained interest among researchers in discourse and education studies across a diversity of contexts.While most research in this line has focused on marketized discourses such as advertisements,little attention has been paid to promotional discourse in public institutions such as the About us texts on Chinese university websites.The goal of the present study is twofold:first,to describe the generic features of the university About us texts in China;and second,to analyze how promotional discourse is interdiscursively incorporated in the discourse by referring to the broader sociopolitical context.Findings have indicated five main moves:giving an overview,stressing historical status,displaying strengths,pledging political and ideological allegiance,and communicating goals and visions.Move 3,displaying strengths,has the greatest amount of information and can be further divided into six sub-moves which presents information on campus facilities,faculty team,talent cultivation,disciplinary fields construction,academic research,and international exchange.The main linguistic and rhetorical strategies used in these moves are analyzed and discussed.
文摘With the rapid development of modern technology,textbooks have been undergoing great changes from the traditionallypaper-based form to the multimodal form.Multimodality has become a major feature of textbook discourse.Multimodal discourseanalysis is a new approach to discourse analysis based on the semiotic theory of systemic functional linguistics.This paper providesa detailed review of multimodal discourse analysis(hereafter MDA) in modern linguistics and some previous researches on textbookdiscourse.Then it further outlines what have already been done on textbook discourse from the perspective of MDA.
文摘This paper aims at exploring how the learners' discourse competence could be fully developed in second language acquisition facilitated by teachers through analysis of a piece of written discourse.
文摘The aim of this essay is to explore several possible strategies that can facilitate the learners'grammatical competence development through the analysis of grammatical features of a media text and help to explore the potential of developing grammatical competence in language teaching context.
文摘Discourse markers(DMs)in many languages have been investigated from various theoretical perspectives and within diverse methodological paradigms for decades.Studies within the field of DMs are accelerating rapidly;however,few state-of-the-art reviews have been conducted to systematically inform scholars of the current landscape of DM research.This investigation conducted a comprehensive review of 2,183 studies from 2009 to 2022,leveraging CiteSpace for bibliometric analysis.The study aims to illuminate emerging trends and focal areas within DM research and lay the groundwork for further interdisciplinary exploration and collaboration in this area.The analysis reveals a growing interest in DM studies,identifies leading contributors,including countries,universities,and scholars,highlights the most cited journals and references shaping the field,and delineates prevalent research themes and topics,as well as methodological approaches employed.These findings indicate that DM research has evolved from a linguistic inquiry into an interdisciplinary domain employing varied methodologies such as qualitative and/or quantitative,experimental,and synchronic and/or diachronic.This study can provide important implications for future research in terms of the pragmatic turn,interdisciplinary nature,expansion of data from English to various other languages,and diversified methodologies.
文摘Nominalization,as the main means of reaching grammatical metaphor,is one of the distinctive features of written corpora and plays an important role in the discourse construction of news discourse.Based on the theory of grammatical metaphor,this article discusses the phenomenon of nominalization and its translation strategies in news discourse by analyzing translation examples.It is found that nominalization structure can effectively enhance the informativeness and objectivity of news discourse.When translating from Chinese to English,the translator should take into full consideration of the different characteristics of the two languages,and convert the predicates,subject-predicate structures,verb-object structures and clauses into nominalization structures.Through this translation strategy,the translation will be more in line with the English language characteristics and usage habits,and can accurately convey the information of the original text,finally realizing the effective translation of the language.
文摘Chinese political discourse is the embodiment of the will of the people,the will of the CPC and the will of China.Conceptual metaphor is closely related to political discourse.Taking the 2022 government work report as an example,this paper discusses the metaphor problems in political discourse,and analyzes the metaphorical expressions and their functions in political discourse.Based on this,eco-translatology is used to analyze the translation strategies of metaphors in political discourse to help Chinese political discourse get better publicity.
文摘Corporate image is the external manifestation of a company’s cultural and spiritual essence,as well as the overall impression formed through its interactions with the public.Huawei,as a successful multinational enterprise,has established a robust corporate image in the international market through technological innovation and brand building.Moreover,Huawei’s development is closely aligned with national policies and strategies,making it a representative enterprise for showcasing China’s technological independence and national image.This study examines Huawei’s English press releases on product launches published between 2022 and 2024 and conducts a comparative analysis with similar materials from Apple’s official website.Based on Fairclough’s three-dimensional discourse analysis model,this research explores the linguistic features of Huawei’s corporate image construction from the perspectives of text,discourse practice,and social practice.The findings reveal that Huawei has successfully constructed a corporate image that emphasizes technological innovation,prioritizes user needs,and underscores its identity as a national enterprise.This study not only sheds light on Huawei’s strategies for image construction in international competition but also provides a valuable reference for Chinese enterprises in their cultural communication and brand building during the globalization process.
