Although literary works are imaginary,they are based on careful observations of the real world.The fictional world is an imitation of the real world.So there is a strong similarity between them.The character utterance...Although literary works are imaginary,they are based on careful observations of the real world.The fictional world is an imitation of the real world.So there is a strong similarity between them.The character utterances in fictions may be artificial in reality,but they are true in fictions.Therefore,pragmatic theories also have validity for literary interaction in theory.The au thor analyzes the fictional dialogues in Eileen Chang' s novel——Love in a Fallen City under the framework of the communica tion model based on Relevance Theory.In the academic field,Relevance Theory has been applied to explain a wide range of phenomena in translation,stylistics,phonology,and English teaching.However,the researches on mass communication discourse are still on the development.展开更多
This study investigates the applicability and effectiveness of pragmatic-stylistic analysis in fictional dialogues.Taking Kazuo Ishiguro’s short story“Come Rain or Come Shine”in Nocturnes:Five Stories of Music and ...This study investigates the applicability and effectiveness of pragmatic-stylistic analysis in fictional dialogues.Taking Kazuo Ishiguro’s short story“Come Rain or Come Shine”in Nocturnes:Five Stories of Music and Nightfall as a case study,a detailed analysis of four fictional dialogues in this story has been conducted in the light of the cooperative principle,the im/politeness theory,and the turn-taking theory.The study has shown that pragmatic-stylistics offers a useful analytical tool in guiding readers to stylistically read character speech forms and interpret textual cues in conversation so as to gain a better insight into the characters’traits,their power relationships as well as the acceleration and deceleration in the narrative development.展开更多
This paper is a socio-literary approach to the book 《TUA》 COLECTANEA LITERARIA： Mem6rias do Vale e da Linha Ferrea, a collection of literary texts on the Tua centenarian railway, like the Swiss or French Alps railw...This paper is a socio-literary approach to the book 《TUA》 COLECTANEA LITERARIA： Mem6rias do Vale e da Linha Ferrea, a collection of literary texts on the Tua centenarian railway, like the Swiss or French Alps railways, highlighting the analysis of the short story ＂The Tua Line drama＂ which builds a fictional dialogue between objects of a technological museum about the past and the future of the Tua railway, which is now disabled. It aims to focus on and discuss relations between technology and literature within its contemporary social context and to understand their complex and dynamic interrelations of interest regarding musealization. This paper will discuss the source base, methods and theory. The source base consists of literary publications appearing throughout the twentieth century. These texts, with originate from various authors, both classic and anonymous （novels, poetry, short stories, popular literature, news columns）, illustrate the action of/in the history of individuals and populations in relation to the Tua Valley, River, line and train, over the course of more than 100 years. Narratives, characters, events and episodes in various timeframes make up the set of literary fictions that provide an approximate and sensitive vision of the Tun Valley and realities around the construction, operation and closing of the railway line. Memories, identities, and historical contexts where norms, customs and social representations operate under various logics or social worlds which illustrate, by means of the fictional production of an imaginary realism, the socio-historical meaning of the Tua Valley and line. The methods employed are a longitudinal qualitative analysis of the occurrence of these themes during this period, and a socio-historical content analysis, drawing from literary studies, which aims to identify the main patterns of fictional narrative, in which sociotechnical knowledge regarding railways was packaged. The interdisciplinary analysis which is made is developed in the socio-historical framework （M. Block）, the ＂sociology of action＂ （Thevenot ＆ Boltanski）, the theory of social representations （Durkheim） and literature theory （Todorov） and aims to open other avenues of academic research on this topic.展开更多
As we know,new criticism is the post—world school of critical theory insists onthe intrinsic value of work of art and focusses on the individual work alone asan independent unit of meaning.It is opposed to the critic...As we know,new criticism is the post—world school of critical theory insists onthe intrinsic value of work of art and focusses on the individual work alone asan independent unit of meaning.It is opposed to the critical practice of bringing histori-cal of brographical data to bear on the anterpretation of a work.To the new critocs,poet-.ry was a special kind of discourse,a means of communicating feeling and thought thatwould not be expressed in any other kind of language.It differed qualitatively from thelanguage of science,or philosophy,but it converyed valid meanings.Such critics set outto define and formalize the qualities of poetic thought and languagege,using the techniqueof close reading with special emphasis on the implicative values of works and on the vari-ous function of figurative language—imagery,metaphor and symbol—in the work.展开更多
This paper is intended to focus on the translation of fictional dialogues,and to explore the specific translation methods in the choice of emotional words to convey the speaker’s conversational implicature in the fic...This paper is intended to focus on the translation of fictional dialogues,and to explore the specific translation methods in the choice of emotional words to convey the speaker’s conversational implicature in the fiction The Outstation under the guidance of conversational implicature theory.展开更多
Joanna Page is Director of CRASSH and Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge.Her research interests are generally connected to the relationship between science and culture in Latin America....Joanna Page is Director of CRASSH and Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge.Her research interests are generally connected to the relationship between science and culture in Latin America.She has also worked on questions of memory,modernity,capitalism,posthumanism,new materialism,decoloniality,ecology,and environmental thought.This interview covers three main aspects:the characteristics of science fiction texts in Latin America,the interdisciplinary research models at the intersection of science,literature,and art,and Latin America as a field of regional studies.Professor Page starts with Argentine science fiction novels and expands the discussion to include graphic novels in Latin America,outlining the panorama of science fiction and its indigenous features.The conversation delves into the literary and technological relationships within Latin American science fiction texts.Building upon this foundation,this interview explores the interdisciplinary research paradigms concerning the relationship between science and culture,aiming to contribute to regional studies by exploring new pathways for interdisciplinary,cross-regional,and trans-media research.展开更多
Brain-machine interface could give patients back their speech,sight or mobility In The Matrix,the protagonist connects to the Matrix to navigate between the real and virtual worlds.In Ghost in the Shell,the brain-mach...Brain-machine interface could give patients back their speech,sight or mobility In The Matrix,the protagonist connects to the Matrix to navigate between the real and virtual worlds.In Ghost in the Shell,the brain-machine interface becomes an important bridge between man and machine.These science fiction works show a technology that was as fascinating as it was inaccessible-until recently.This interface,which for a long time only existed in fantasy,is now appearing in the real world.展开更多
The book of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez unfolds in the fictional town of Macondo,a place filled with extraordinary characters and events.At the center of the narrative is the Buendía f...The book of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez unfolds in the fictional town of Macondo,a place filled with extraordinary characters and events.At the center of the narrative is the Buendía family,whose lives are shaped by love,ambition and solitude.展开更多
My favorite TV series is Stranger Things.It is a popular American science fiction drama.The story takes place in a small town in the1980s.A young b oy named W ill mysteriously disappears.His friends,family,and the pol...My favorite TV series is Stranger Things.It is a popular American science fiction drama.The story takes place in a small town in the1980s.A young b oy named W ill mysteriously disappears.His friends,family,and the police start to search for answers.As they look for Will,they find something strange:there are some mysterious forces and a girl with special powers.展开更多
The present study explores the importance of developing metaphorical thinking skills in students within the framework of English as a Foreign Language(EFL)reading courses at the tertiary educational level.Metaphorical...The present study explores the importance of developing metaphorical thinking skills in students within the framework of English as a Foreign Language(EFL)reading courses at the tertiary educational level.Metaphorical thinking is viewed as the ability to envisage the world figuratively,perceive associatively,and express oneself creatively.It is crucial to recognize metaphors in texts,interpret the complex images they evoke,and generate new metaphors.It is especially needful in the current era of clip thinking and fragmented information processing when students often approach content superficially rather than comprehensively,leading to decreased cognitive activity and a diminished capacity to understand literature.To foster metaphorical thinking,the paper suggests building a text associative-semantic field focusing on metaphors.Due to its hierarchical structure,which can be envisioned as a dense nucleus surrounded by a central region of synonyms and further enveloped by a periphery of more loosely associated linguistic units,the text associative-semantic field is seen as a potent solution for facilitating improved visualization and more holistic comprehension of information,allowing students for expanding their vocabulary and strengthening associative connections.Notably,the study highlights analyzing the metaphors of emotional states as they contribute significantly to a more profound interpretation of the text,understanding the writer’s unique style,deepening the students’engagement with the book,and expanding their emotional experiences.展开更多
数年前,微软的人工智能——小冰就出版过诗集,现在的AI更加智能,是否能够取代人类作者创造文学作品呢?Science fiction writers are wondering if artificial intelligence(AI)will help or replace human writers in the future.Liu Ci...数年前,微软的人工智能——小冰就出版过诗集,现在的AI更加智能,是否能够取代人类作者创造文学作品呢?Science fiction writers are wondering if artificial intelligence(AI)will help or replace human writers in the future.Liu Cixin,a famous Chinese sci-fi author known for The Three-Body Problem,shared his thoughts at a forum.展开更多
In the contemporary context of increasingly severe global ecological crises,literary works have gradually emerged as essential media through which humanity reflects on the relationship between the natural environment ...In the contemporary context of increasingly severe global ecological crises,literary works have gradually emerged as essential media through which humanity reflects on the relationship between the natural environment and human civilization.Within this trend,Japanese science fiction has produced a growing body of works that engage with ecological issues.Taking the Japanese science fiction novel The Palace of the Flower Dragons as a case study,this paper employs the theoretical framework of ecocriticism to examine the text across three dimensions-natural,social,and spiritual ecology.It investigates how the novel uses apocalyptic narrative strategies to explore the human-nature relationship and to articulate an ecological ethic of coexistence grounded in a non-anthropocentric worldview,thereby offering meaningful literary reference points for addressing real-world environmental crises.展开更多
Cyberpunk science fiction movement was triggered by William Gibson, and this SF genre refocuses on the impacts of technology on human and society. This tradition was abandoned by the New Wave SF with its interest on f...Cyberpunk science fiction movement was triggered by William Gibson, and this SF genre refocuses on the impacts of technology on human and society. This tradition was abandoned by the New Wave SF with its interest on formal experiment. Cyberpunk SF is tinted with punk attitude for its rebellion against technological control and information control. With its criticism on postmodern society, cyberpunk science fiction has attracted postmodern critical attention.展开更多
Ⅰ、文学常识1.conflict—It is the tension in a situation between characters,or the actual opposition ofcharacters(usually in drama and fiction but also in narrative poetry).There are mainly three kinfs ofconflict,name...Ⅰ、文学常识1.conflict—It is the tension in a situation between characters,or the actual opposition ofcharacters(usually in drama and fiction but also in narrative poetry).There are mainly three kinfs ofconflict,namely,man against man,man against himself,and man against nature.展开更多
Jane Eyre,rebellious woman in the Victorian Age,holds her remarkable status in the English literature as the one who dare to fight against the patriarchal society.Unlike her contemporaries,Jane Eyre believes that men ...Jane Eyre,rebellious woman in the Victorian Age,holds her remarkable status in the English literature as the one who dare to fight against the patriarchal society.Unlike her contemporaries,Jane Eyre believes that men and women are born to be equal and women should never be tamed by the male-centered world or feminist ego.Under the tremendous pressure,she still guards her own dignity and determines to achieve self-actualization instead of being an accessory of men.It’s her female consciousness that lead her to be an unusual figure that enjoys both the financial self-reliance and social equality.Self-respect,selfreliance and self-actualization comprise Jane’s female consciousness that is instructive to women and worths a further exploration.展开更多
Flash fiction is a kind of mini-sized story that contains no more than 1,000 words.This kind of fiction emerged alongwith the development of the times.Due to its short length,simple plot and limited words,it focuses o...Flash fiction is a kind of mini-sized story that contains no more than 1,000 words.This kind of fiction emerged alongwith the development of the times.Due to its short length,simple plot and limited words,it focuses on shaping the personality ofcharacters.Both the two flash fictions,"The Story of an Hour"and"The Unicorn in the Garden",express a similar theme of mar-riage,but they employ different ways to create characters.With a detailed comparison of the characters and the characterization be-tween the two works,this paper intends to explore the methods of shaping characters from point of view,psychological descriptionand language description.展开更多
文摘Although literary works are imaginary,they are based on careful observations of the real world.The fictional world is an imitation of the real world.So there is a strong similarity between them.The character utterances in fictions may be artificial in reality,but they are true in fictions.Therefore,pragmatic theories also have validity for literary interaction in theory.The au thor analyzes the fictional dialogues in Eileen Chang' s novel——Love in a Fallen City under the framework of the communica tion model based on Relevance Theory.In the academic field,Relevance Theory has been applied to explain a wide range of phenomena in translation,stylistics,phonology,and English teaching.However,the researches on mass communication discourse are still on the development.
文摘This study investigates the applicability and effectiveness of pragmatic-stylistic analysis in fictional dialogues.Taking Kazuo Ishiguro’s short story“Come Rain or Come Shine”in Nocturnes:Five Stories of Music and Nightfall as a case study,a detailed analysis of four fictional dialogues in this story has been conducted in the light of the cooperative principle,the im/politeness theory,and the turn-taking theory.The study has shown that pragmatic-stylistics offers a useful analytical tool in guiding readers to stylistically read character speech forms and interpret textual cues in conversation so as to gain a better insight into the characters’traits,their power relationships as well as the acceleration and deceleration in the narrative development.
文摘This paper is a socio-literary approach to the book 《TUA》 COLECTANEA LITERARIA： Mem6rias do Vale e da Linha Ferrea, a collection of literary texts on the Tua centenarian railway, like the Swiss or French Alps railways, highlighting the analysis of the short story ＂The Tua Line drama＂ which builds a fictional dialogue between objects of a technological museum about the past and the future of the Tua railway, which is now disabled. It aims to focus on and discuss relations between technology and literature within its contemporary social context and to understand their complex and dynamic interrelations of interest regarding musealization. This paper will discuss the source base, methods and theory. The source base consists of literary publications appearing throughout the twentieth century. These texts, with originate from various authors, both classic and anonymous （novels, poetry, short stories, popular literature, news columns）, illustrate the action of/in the history of individuals and populations in relation to the Tua Valley, River, line and train, over the course of more than 100 years. Narratives, characters, events and episodes in various timeframes make up the set of literary fictions that provide an approximate and sensitive vision of the Tun Valley and realities around the construction, operation and closing of the railway line. Memories, identities, and historical contexts where norms, customs and social representations operate under various logics or social worlds which illustrate, by means of the fictional production of an imaginary realism, the socio-historical meaning of the Tua Valley and line. The methods employed are a longitudinal qualitative analysis of the occurrence of these themes during this period, and a socio-historical content analysis, drawing from literary studies, which aims to identify the main patterns of fictional narrative, in which sociotechnical knowledge regarding railways was packaged. The interdisciplinary analysis which is made is developed in the socio-historical framework （M. Block）, the ＂sociology of action＂ （Thevenot ＆ Boltanski）, the theory of social representations （Durkheim） and literature theory （Todorov） and aims to open other avenues of academic research on this topic.
文摘As we know,new criticism is the post—world school of critical theory insists onthe intrinsic value of work of art and focusses on the individual work alone asan independent unit of meaning.It is opposed to the critical practice of bringing histori-cal of brographical data to bear on the anterpretation of a work.To the new critocs,poet-.ry was a special kind of discourse,a means of communicating feeling and thought thatwould not be expressed in any other kind of language.It differed qualitatively from thelanguage of science,or philosophy,but it converyed valid meanings.Such critics set outto define and formalize the qualities of poetic thought and languagege,using the techniqueof close reading with special emphasis on the implicative values of works and on the vari-ous function of figurative language—imagery,metaphor and symbol—in the work.
文摘This paper is intended to focus on the translation of fictional dialogues,and to explore the specific translation methods in the choice of emotional words to convey the speaker’s conversational implicature in the fiction The Outstation under the guidance of conversational implicature theory.
基金“Cyborg Narratives and the Construction of 21^(st)Century Science Fiction Poetics”(22BZW175)sponsored by the National Social Science Fund of China。
文摘Joanna Page is Director of CRASSH and Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge.Her research interests are generally connected to the relationship between science and culture in Latin America.She has also worked on questions of memory,modernity,capitalism,posthumanism,new materialism,decoloniality,ecology,and environmental thought.This interview covers three main aspects:the characteristics of science fiction texts in Latin America,the interdisciplinary research models at the intersection of science,literature,and art,and Latin America as a field of regional studies.Professor Page starts with Argentine science fiction novels and expands the discussion to include graphic novels in Latin America,outlining the panorama of science fiction and its indigenous features.The conversation delves into the literary and technological relationships within Latin American science fiction texts.Building upon this foundation,this interview explores the interdisciplinary research paradigms concerning the relationship between science and culture,aiming to contribute to regional studies by exploring new pathways for interdisciplinary,cross-regional,and trans-media research.
文摘Brain-machine interface could give patients back their speech,sight or mobility In The Matrix,the protagonist connects to the Matrix to navigate between the real and virtual worlds.In Ghost in the Shell,the brain-machine interface becomes an important bridge between man and machine.These science fiction works show a technology that was as fascinating as it was inaccessible-until recently.This interface,which for a long time only existed in fantasy,is now appearing in the real world.
文摘The book of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez unfolds in the fictional town of Macondo,a place filled with extraordinary characters and events.At the center of the narrative is the Buendía family,whose lives are shaped by love,ambition and solitude.
文摘My favorite TV series is Stranger Things.It is a popular American science fiction drama.The story takes place in a small town in the1980s.A young b oy named W ill mysteriously disappears.His friends,family,and the police start to search for answers.As they look for Will,they find something strange:there are some mysterious forces and a girl with special powers.
文摘The present study explores the importance of developing metaphorical thinking skills in students within the framework of English as a Foreign Language(EFL)reading courses at the tertiary educational level.Metaphorical thinking is viewed as the ability to envisage the world figuratively,perceive associatively,and express oneself creatively.It is crucial to recognize metaphors in texts,interpret the complex images they evoke,and generate new metaphors.It is especially needful in the current era of clip thinking and fragmented information processing when students often approach content superficially rather than comprehensively,leading to decreased cognitive activity and a diminished capacity to understand literature.To foster metaphorical thinking,the paper suggests building a text associative-semantic field focusing on metaphors.Due to its hierarchical structure,which can be envisioned as a dense nucleus surrounded by a central region of synonyms and further enveloped by a periphery of more loosely associated linguistic units,the text associative-semantic field is seen as a potent solution for facilitating improved visualization and more holistic comprehension of information,allowing students for expanding their vocabulary and strengthening associative connections.Notably,the study highlights analyzing the metaphors of emotional states as they contribute significantly to a more profound interpretation of the text,understanding the writer’s unique style,deepening the students’engagement with the book,and expanding their emotional experiences.
文摘数年前,微软的人工智能——小冰就出版过诗集,现在的AI更加智能,是否能够取代人类作者创造文学作品呢?Science fiction writers are wondering if artificial intelligence(AI)will help or replace human writers in the future.Liu Cixin,a famous Chinese sci-fi author known for The Three-Body Problem,shared his thoughts at a forum.
基金supported by the foundation of SFLEP National University Foreign Language Teaching Research Project(No.2019SH0039B)the Ministry of Education Industry-Academy Cooperation Collaborative Education Project(No.2408212240).
文摘In the contemporary context of increasingly severe global ecological crises,literary works have gradually emerged as essential media through which humanity reflects on the relationship between the natural environment and human civilization.Within this trend,Japanese science fiction has produced a growing body of works that engage with ecological issues.Taking the Japanese science fiction novel The Palace of the Flower Dragons as a case study,this paper employs the theoretical framework of ecocriticism to examine the text across three dimensions-natural,social,and spiritual ecology.It investigates how the novel uses apocalyptic narrative strategies to explore the human-nature relationship and to articulate an ecological ethic of coexistence grounded in a non-anthropocentric worldview,thereby offering meaningful literary reference points for addressing real-world environmental crises.
文摘Cyberpunk science fiction movement was triggered by William Gibson, and this SF genre refocuses on the impacts of technology on human and society. This tradition was abandoned by the New Wave SF with its interest on formal experiment. Cyberpunk SF is tinted with punk attitude for its rebellion against technological control and information control. With its criticism on postmodern society, cyberpunk science fiction has attracted postmodern critical attention.
文摘Ⅰ、文学常识1.conflict—It is the tension in a situation between characters,or the actual opposition ofcharacters(usually in drama and fiction but also in narrative poetry).There are mainly three kinfs ofconflict,namely,man against man,man against himself,and man against nature.
文摘Jane Eyre,rebellious woman in the Victorian Age,holds her remarkable status in the English literature as the one who dare to fight against the patriarchal society.Unlike her contemporaries,Jane Eyre believes that men and women are born to be equal and women should never be tamed by the male-centered world or feminist ego.Under the tremendous pressure,she still guards her own dignity and determines to achieve self-actualization instead of being an accessory of men.It’s her female consciousness that lead her to be an unusual figure that enjoys both the financial self-reliance and social equality.Self-respect,selfreliance and self-actualization comprise Jane’s female consciousness that is instructive to women and worths a further exploration.
文摘Flash fiction is a kind of mini-sized story that contains no more than 1,000 words.This kind of fiction emerged alongwith the development of the times.Due to its short length,simple plot and limited words,it focuses on shaping the personality ofcharacters.Both the two flash fictions,"The Story of an Hour"and"The Unicorn in the Garden",express a similar theme of mar-riage,but they employ different ways to create characters.With a detailed comparison of the characters and the characterization be-tween the two works,this paper intends to explore the methods of shaping characters from point of view,psychological descriptionand language description.
