AI continues to reshape industries at a rapid pace,which reminds us of the growing importance of standardization.Standards and conformity assessment are essential to addressing the socio-technical dimensions of AI—en...AI continues to reshape industries at a rapid pace,which reminds us of the growing importance of standardization.Standards and conformity assessment are essential to addressing the socio-technical dimensions of AI—ensuring its safe,ethical,and inclusive adoption across different sectors.展开更多
A great inspirational speech has power.Too often,people abandon their dreams due to various setbacks.After some time,their beliefs in themselves vanish and remain dormant until something can get them going again.Inspi...A great inspirational speech has power.Too often,people abandon their dreams due to various setbacks.After some time,their beliefs in themselves vanish and remain dormant until something can get them going again.Inspirational speeches have the power to do just that,waking up their beliefs and getting them motivated again.This paper is a study of the Chinese translation of English inspirational speeches on campus in USA under the framework of Skopos Theory and also can be a guide for those who are devoted to translating English inspirational speeches into Chinese.It is helpful for them to achieve an accurate,influent and felicitous translation by applying appropriate translation strategies.Before starting the research,eighteen English inspirational speeches in Inspirational Speeches on Campus in USA by Wang Ruize are selected as ST.展开更多
Narratives are"the everyday stories we live by"(Baker, 2006:3), they are featured by inter-media, inter-disciplines and inter-genres and play key role in cross-cultural communication. Narratives not only rep...Narratives are"the everyday stories we live by"(Baker, 2006:3), they are featured by inter-media, inter-disciplines and inter-genres and play key role in cross-cultural communication. Narratives not only represent reality, but constitute reality by"accentuating, undermining or modifying aspects of the narrative(s) encoded in the source text or utterance"(Baker, 2006:5) in a way to intensify or weaken international political conflict, and in doing so participate in shaping social reality. The narrative account on translation raised up by Mona Baker"may constitute yet another turning point in translation studies"(Fan, 2009: 57), because she reveals that translation not only closely connects politics, but also creates politics(Baker, 2011:6). This provides a theoretical basis for us to discuss how translation shapes political speeches from the perspective of narration.Framing is what makes narratives takes into effective. The thesis will interpret translation of President Xi's diplomatic speeches from Baker's narrative account by the following framing means: labeling and repositioning of participants. It analyzes how President Xi's diplomatic speeches serves for enhancing consensus and reducing conflicts. It is hoped that the thesis will offer some suggestions on building a narrative system with Chinese characteristics and establishing more effective and skilled strategies for international communication.展开更多
The public speech skill consists of cultural virtue,knowledge accumulation,psychological quality,logical thinking,thinking capacity and language expression.It is a kind of art that speakers achieve the success through...The public speech skill consists of cultural virtue,knowledge accumulation,psychological quality,logical thinking,thinking capacity and language expression.It is a kind of art that speakers achieve the success through their own sound.In dealing with various English speeches,Chinese students are always influenced by the Chinese way of speech delivery,adopting the style of it,especially its tone of finality.After collecting,arranging and learning relevant material,I attaches great importance to the tone of finality in famous English speeches.They show some rules and regulations,such as the return to the middle pitch,the unstable change of stress and the final rising and falling tone.This paper begins with a brief introduction to what the tone of finality is and three famous English speeches in different areas are provided as study cases with the PRAAT pictures and their relevant analysis.And then the comparison will be made among these three speeches from aspects of pitch,length and weight,in the hope of concluding similarities in the tone of finality of these three cases.展开更多
This paper analyzing Chinese leader Xi Jinping's and American leader Obama's inaugurate speeches, aiming to discover the underlying culture patterns(individualism-collectivism; power distance; time orientation...This paper analyzing Chinese leader Xi Jinping's and American leader Obama's inaugurate speeches, aiming to discover the underlying culture patterns(individualism-collectivism; power distance; time orientation) hidden behind languages features.This approach towards political discourse has the effect of breaking out from the restricted analytic framework and adding cultural elements and helps leader develop a high awareness of the culture meaning hidden in such kind of political discourses.展开更多
As a sort of cognitive means and thinking mode,conceptual metaphor is widely applied to political discourses.Statesmen often publicize their political thoughts by using conceptual metaphors in their political discours...As a sort of cognitive means and thinking mode,conceptual metaphor is widely applied to political discourses.Statesmen often publicize their political thoughts by using conceptual metaphors in their political discourses so that the audience can understand their political ideas easily.Based on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory,this paper aims to analyze the conceptual metaphors in Xi Jinping's 2016 New Year address so as to summarize the types,functions and significance of conceptual metaphors in Chinese political discourses,in the hope of helping readers interpret political speeches better.展开更多
This thesis tries to analyze the language features of Barack Obama's two inaugural speeches in 2008 and 2012 from the linguistic aspects,including sentence types as well as figures of speech which included imperat...This thesis tries to analyze the language features of Barack Obama's two inaugural speeches in 2008 and 2012 from the linguistic aspects,including sentence types as well as figures of speech which included imperative sentences,parallelism,rhetorical question,alliteration,hyperbole,simile,metaphor and so on.展开更多
Flipped learning is a reversal of the traditional teaching strategy, which has changed the timing of teacher＇s lectures and homework. In this revolutionary situation, the appropriateness of the before-class videos an...Flipped learning is a reversal of the traditional teaching strategy, which has changed the timing of teacher＇s lectures and homework. In this revolutionary situation, the appropriateness of the before-class videos and other materials and the arrangement of class in the classroom play an important role in the fulfillment of application of the materials. Classical TED speeches are the excellent options for English language learners＇ flipped learning. This paper tends to make a case study of the application of TED speeches into flipped learning, taking the speeches with the keyword ＂transportation＂ as an example.展开更多
Every public speaker prepares his or her public speech meticulously.Witty remarks emerge in an endless stream,and demonstrate the rhetoric beauty of English to a great extent.Almost every speaker employs parallelism i...Every public speaker prepares his or her public speech meticulously.Witty remarks emerge in an endless stream,and demonstrate the rhetoric beauty of English to a great extent.Almost every speaker employs parallelism in his or her public speeches.The present paper is intended to study the concept,the classification and the significance of parallelism in English.展开更多
Teachers' in-class evaluative speech is an indispensable part in English language teaching and also a is an indispensable and a weak point in English teaching. When using in-class evaluative speeches, the teacher ...Teachers' in-class evaluative speech is an indispensable part in English language teaching and also a is an indispensable and a weak point in English teaching. When using in-class evaluative speeches, the teacher made mistakes with a high frequency and failed to reach the purpose of it. This study attempts to investigate and analyze the meaning of teachers' in- class evaluative speeches, discusses some of the problems existing in teachers' evaluation in English classroom teaching and proposes countermeasures to improve the quality of it. It aims at causing the teachers' attention and correcting the mistakes of using inclass evaluative speeches.展开更多
This paper aims to analyze the features of chairman speeches and their translations with the critical genre analysis method.By processing the annual reports in Hang Seng China's Mainland Property Index2017,we foun...This paper aims to analyze the features of chairman speeches and their translations with the critical genre analysis method.By processing the annual reports in Hang Seng China's Mainland Property Index2017,we found though chairman speeches contain specific move structures and perspicuous communication purposes,industry environment and self-interest contribution has a profound impact on the wording and rhetorical choices of the chairman speeches,and this can be explained as:the interactivity creates an interdiscursive relationship between business genre community and industry practice.For translatorsand translation teachers,this method maybe a good chance to understand the related industry and select adequate translation and teaching strategies for expected results.展开更多
Based on the Rhetorical Structure Theory (hereinafter referred to as RST), the study selected and analyzed the English versions of ten important speeches made by President Xi for the new era and drew up rhetorical tre...Based on the Rhetorical Structure Theory (hereinafter referred to as RST), the study selected and analyzed the English versions of ten important speeches made by President Xi for the new era and drew up rhetorical trees.Through a thorough investiga-tion of rhetorical structures of Xi's speeches on the basis of RST, the study found that:1) Elaboration, Background and Evidence re-lations are the dominant relations in President Xi's speeches;2) The preference of forward arrow direction is an unexpected find-ing;3) There are two patterns of macrostructure of rhetorical relations in Xi's speeches.展开更多
In recent years,people pay more and more attention to the connection between gender and language.Due to some social reasons and differences in body structure,gender differences no doubt exist.But gender differences in...In recent years,people pay more and more attention to the connection between gender and language.Due to some social reasons and differences in body structure,gender differences no doubt exist.But gender differences in language have changed a little in modern society due to women's elevation of social status and their desire of realizing self-value.In this paper gender differences reflected in modern language hope to be found out on the basis of two public speeches of Hillary and Obama.展开更多
Aristotle's traditional rhetoric theory is of great value to the study of language. This paper analyses English speeches from the perspective of ethos and sees how speakers apply ethos to reach the purpose of pers...Aristotle's traditional rhetoric theory is of great value to the study of language. This paper analyses English speeches from the perspective of ethos and sees how speakers apply ethos to reach the purpose of persuading.展开更多
Brexit has a profound effect on the UK,the EU,even the whole world.The reference of Xin Bin’s specific intertextuality framework is used as a proper approach to analyzing Brexit speeches delivered by David Cameron,Th...Brexit has a profound effect on the UK,the EU,even the whole world.The reference of Xin Bin’s specific intertextuality framework is used as a proper approach to analyzing Brexit speeches delivered by David Cameron,Theresa May,and Boris Johnson-the predecessors and the present UK Prime Minister.Through analyzing,it is identified that the Prime Ministers share a similar attitude to the value proposition of Brexit,but have both similarities and differences in their thoughts of Brexit policies and future directions after Brexit.The research takes an integral analysis of Brexit,and hence provides a new perspective.展开更多
This paper is trying to analyze the E-C interpreting scripts of Inaugural Address, Remarks on Winning the Nobel Prize and Shanghai Speech by the 44th president of United States Barack Obama with a comparative method b...This paper is trying to analyze the E-C interpreting scripts of Inaugural Address, Remarks on Winning the Nobel Prize and Shanghai Speech by the 44th president of United States Barack Obama with a comparative method based on data collected. The analysis will be employed on the lexical, syntactic as well as rhetorical level and the features of E-C public speech interpreting will be achieved accordingly. The features may serve as reference for the interpreters in their interpretation practice in order to improve the interpretation effects.展开更多
In the 21st century,soft power has become an important element to evaluate a nation’s comprehensive strength.Meanwhile,as an indispensable part of soft power,national image receives more and more attention on the pol...In the 21st century,soft power has become an important element to evaluate a nation’s comprehensive strength.Meanwhile,as an indispensable part of soft power,national image receives more and more attention on the political stage.Since Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speeches have unique features and greatly reflect positive national images of China,many scholars start to analyze them from diversified perspectives.Based on Du Bois’theory of“the Stance Triangle”and the Indexicality Principle,taking President Xi Jinping’s speech at the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation for example,this paper expounds how President Xi jinping achieves the evaluation,position,and alignment between the subject and object by means of overt labeling,implicature and presupposition,covert evaluation statement,and ideology-laden linguistic structure,in order to establish China’s national image.Through the analysis,the author intends to figure out how national leaders use various persuasive methods to achieve their political purpose.And the author hopes this thesis can provide a new perspective for further analysis on national leaders’speeches.展开更多
文摘AI continues to reshape industries at a rapid pace,which reminds us of the growing importance of standardization.Standards and conformity assessment are essential to addressing the socio-technical dimensions of AI—ensuring its safe,ethical,and inclusive adoption across different sectors.
文摘A great inspirational speech has power.Too often,people abandon their dreams due to various setbacks.After some time,their beliefs in themselves vanish and remain dormant until something can get them going again.Inspirational speeches have the power to do just that,waking up their beliefs and getting them motivated again.This paper is a study of the Chinese translation of English inspirational speeches on campus in USA under the framework of Skopos Theory and also can be a guide for those who are devoted to translating English inspirational speeches into Chinese.It is helpful for them to achieve an accurate,influent and felicitous translation by applying appropriate translation strategies.Before starting the research,eighteen English inspirational speeches in Inspirational Speeches on Campus in USA by Wang Ruize are selected as ST.
文摘Narratives are"the everyday stories we live by"(Baker, 2006:3), they are featured by inter-media, inter-disciplines and inter-genres and play key role in cross-cultural communication. Narratives not only represent reality, but constitute reality by"accentuating, undermining or modifying aspects of the narrative(s) encoded in the source text or utterance"(Baker, 2006:5) in a way to intensify or weaken international political conflict, and in doing so participate in shaping social reality. The narrative account on translation raised up by Mona Baker"may constitute yet another turning point in translation studies"(Fan, 2009: 57), because she reveals that translation not only closely connects politics, but also creates politics(Baker, 2011:6). This provides a theoretical basis for us to discuss how translation shapes political speeches from the perspective of narration.Framing is what makes narratives takes into effective. The thesis will interpret translation of President Xi's diplomatic speeches from Baker's narrative account by the following framing means: labeling and repositioning of participants. It analyzes how President Xi's diplomatic speeches serves for enhancing consensus and reducing conflicts. It is hoped that the thesis will offer some suggestions on building a narrative system with Chinese characteristics and establishing more effective and skilled strategies for international communication.
文摘The public speech skill consists of cultural virtue,knowledge accumulation,psychological quality,logical thinking,thinking capacity and language expression.It is a kind of art that speakers achieve the success through their own sound.In dealing with various English speeches,Chinese students are always influenced by the Chinese way of speech delivery,adopting the style of it,especially its tone of finality.After collecting,arranging and learning relevant material,I attaches great importance to the tone of finality in famous English speeches.They show some rules and regulations,such as the return to the middle pitch,the unstable change of stress and the final rising and falling tone.This paper begins with a brief introduction to what the tone of finality is and three famous English speeches in different areas are provided as study cases with the PRAAT pictures and their relevant analysis.And then the comparison will be made among these three speeches from aspects of pitch,length and weight,in the hope of concluding similarities in the tone of finality of these three cases.
文摘This paper analyzing Chinese leader Xi Jinping's and American leader Obama's inaugurate speeches, aiming to discover the underlying culture patterns(individualism-collectivism; power distance; time orientation) hidden behind languages features.This approach towards political discourse has the effect of breaking out from the restricted analytic framework and adding cultural elements and helps leader develop a high awareness of the culture meaning hidden in such kind of political discourses.
文摘As a sort of cognitive means and thinking mode,conceptual metaphor is widely applied to political discourses.Statesmen often publicize their political thoughts by using conceptual metaphors in their political discourses so that the audience can understand their political ideas easily.Based on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory,this paper aims to analyze the conceptual metaphors in Xi Jinping's 2016 New Year address so as to summarize the types,functions and significance of conceptual metaphors in Chinese political discourses,in the hope of helping readers interpret political speeches better.
文摘This thesis tries to analyze the language features of Barack Obama's two inaugural speeches in 2008 and 2012 from the linguistic aspects,including sentence types as well as figures of speech which included imperative sentences,parallelism,rhetorical question,alliteration,hyperbole,simile,metaphor and so on.
文摘Flipped learning is a reversal of the traditional teaching strategy, which has changed the timing of teacher＇s lectures and homework. In this revolutionary situation, the appropriateness of the before-class videos and other materials and the arrangement of class in the classroom play an important role in the fulfillment of application of the materials. Classical TED speeches are the excellent options for English language learners＇ flipped learning. This paper tends to make a case study of the application of TED speeches into flipped learning, taking the speeches with the keyword ＂transportation＂ as an example.
文摘Every public speaker prepares his or her public speech meticulously.Witty remarks emerge in an endless stream,and demonstrate the rhetoric beauty of English to a great extent.Almost every speaker employs parallelism in his or her public speeches.The present paper is intended to study the concept,the classification and the significance of parallelism in English.
文摘Teachers' in-class evaluative speech is an indispensable part in English language teaching and also a is an indispensable and a weak point in English teaching. When using in-class evaluative speeches, the teacher made mistakes with a high frequency and failed to reach the purpose of it. This study attempts to investigate and analyze the meaning of teachers' in- class evaluative speeches, discusses some of the problems existing in teachers' evaluation in English classroom teaching and proposes countermeasures to improve the quality of it. It aims at causing the teachers' attention and correcting the mistakes of using inclass evaluative speeches.
文摘This paper aims to analyze the features of chairman speeches and their translations with the critical genre analysis method.By processing the annual reports in Hang Seng China's Mainland Property Index2017,we found though chairman speeches contain specific move structures and perspicuous communication purposes,industry environment and self-interest contribution has a profound impact on the wording and rhetorical choices of the chairman speeches,and this can be explained as:the interactivity creates an interdiscursive relationship between business genre community and industry practice.For translatorsand translation teachers,this method maybe a good chance to understand the related industry and select adequate translation and teaching strategies for expected results.
文摘Based on the Rhetorical Structure Theory (hereinafter referred to as RST), the study selected and analyzed the English versions of ten important speeches made by President Xi for the new era and drew up rhetorical trees.Through a thorough investiga-tion of rhetorical structures of Xi's speeches on the basis of RST, the study found that:1) Elaboration, Background and Evidence re-lations are the dominant relations in President Xi's speeches;2) The preference of forward arrow direction is an unexpected find-ing;3) There are two patterns of macrostructure of rhetorical relations in Xi's speeches.
文摘In recent years,people pay more and more attention to the connection between gender and language.Due to some social reasons and differences in body structure,gender differences no doubt exist.But gender differences in language have changed a little in modern society due to women's elevation of social status and their desire of realizing self-value.In this paper gender differences reflected in modern language hope to be found out on the basis of two public speeches of Hillary and Obama.
文摘Aristotle's traditional rhetoric theory is of great value to the study of language. This paper analyses English speeches from the perspective of ethos and sees how speakers apply ethos to reach the purpose of persuading.
文摘Brexit has a profound effect on the UK,the EU,even the whole world.The reference of Xin Bin’s specific intertextuality framework is used as a proper approach to analyzing Brexit speeches delivered by David Cameron,Theresa May,and Boris Johnson-the predecessors and the present UK Prime Minister.Through analyzing,it is identified that the Prime Ministers share a similar attitude to the value proposition of Brexit,but have both similarities and differences in their thoughts of Brexit policies and future directions after Brexit.The research takes an integral analysis of Brexit,and hence provides a new perspective.
文摘This paper is trying to analyze the E-C interpreting scripts of Inaugural Address, Remarks on Winning the Nobel Prize and Shanghai Speech by the 44th president of United States Barack Obama with a comparative method based on data collected. The analysis will be employed on the lexical, syntactic as well as rhetorical level and the features of E-C public speech interpreting will be achieved accordingly. The features may serve as reference for the interpreters in their interpretation practice in order to improve the interpretation effects.
文摘In the 21st century,soft power has become an important element to evaluate a nation’s comprehensive strength.Meanwhile,as an indispensable part of soft power,national image receives more and more attention on the political stage.Since Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speeches have unique features and greatly reflect positive national images of China,many scholars start to analyze them from diversified perspectives.Based on Du Bois’theory of“the Stance Triangle”and the Indexicality Principle,taking President Xi Jinping’s speech at the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation for example,this paper expounds how President Xi jinping achieves the evaluation,position,and alignment between the subject and object by means of overt labeling,implicature and presupposition,covert evaluation statement,and ideology-laden linguistic structure,in order to establish China’s national image.Through the analysis,the author intends to figure out how national leaders use various persuasive methods to achieve their political purpose.And the author hopes this thesis can provide a new perspective for further analysis on national leaders’speeches.
