Museum publicity texts are one of the significant means to effectively convey cultural messages, therefore, it’s necessary to secure a successful translation. From the perspective of Appraisal Theory, this paper, with British Museum as a reference, uses UAM Corpus software for the comparative analysis of appraisal resources of publicity texts of Shaanxi History Museum, hoping to shed light on future translation of museum publicity texts.

Culture  Linguistics 

Compared with western children’s literature, the development of Chinese local children’s literature starts late, and there are still several problems such as lack of originality and low degree of internationalization. In order to enrich children’s reading experiences, to promote their early emergent literacy and future academic achievements, introducing the classics of foreign children’s literature is an effective way. In this process, translation serves as a bridge between the original text and...

Linguistics  Literature 

In Other Words: A Course Book on Translation aims to provide a basis for guiding translators. The abundant examples and detailed explanations make the book easy to be perceived. However, Baker comments that in Chinese pronouns are hardly used and once a participant is introduced, continuity of reference is signalled by omitting the following subjects of following clauses. By qualitative analysis, this paper finds that although Chinese has a tendency to use fewer pronouns than English, the...

Linguistics 

In 2020, under the influence of the COVID-19 outbreak, primary and secondary schools have conducted emergency online teaching. This paper analyzes the online teaching of Russian majors in a western university by means of literature combing and questionnaire survey, lists theoretical problems in emergency online teaching and discusses the solutions, aiming to promote the reform of the online and offline mixed teaching mode of Russian majors in Chinese universities.

Linguistics 

The Report on the Work of the Government is one of the important channels to convey China’s views and positions to the international community, and it is also an important window to shape China’s good image in the international community. The Report on the Work of the Government 2021 is a good material to study international publicity translation in that it involves China’s politics, economy, culture and ecology, which contains many specialized words with Chinese cultural character...

Linguistics 

Based on the field investigation and combined with previous studies, this thesis makes a comprehensive description of the variation and distribution of jian and tuan sounds in Linzhou dialect. On this basis, the causes of the distribution are further explored from the perspective of sociolinguistics. Through the multidimensional investigation of the subjects and the general analysis of social and cultural factors, it is found that jian and tuan sounds are in the trend...

Linguistics 

Language is a unique ability of human beings, and one of the standards of language is to express information clearly, but there are ambiguities in language. Ambiguity can be found on many occasions. It is not useless; on the contrary, it is interesting that it can play a positive role in helping people achieve certain value-added speech and communication purposes. So sometimes people try to eliminate ambiguities, but sometimes, language users also deliberately create ambiguities. But at the same...

Linguistics 

The French writer André Malraux has multiple identities. He is not only a writer, but also a politician, art critic, novelist and philosopher involved in politics. His early novels are based on the Far East, including his most famous novel The Destiny of Man. The work takes the Shanghai workers’ movement in 1927 as the theme, describes a series of activities carried out by some characters represented by Jing to resist fate, and creates a number of characters with the brand of André Malraux’s doc...

Linguistics  Literature 

As a common language phenomenon, ambiguity exists in various languages, and English is no exception. While ambiguity makes the language lively, and interesting, it also brings great troubles to the learning and practice of English. This article tries to classify English ambiguity from four aspects: phonetics, lexical, syntactical, and pragmatic aspects. It aims to clarify the causes of English language ambiguity. At the same time, it points out that only when sentences are placed in a specific l...

Linguistics 

There are many translation versions of The Analects of Confucius, including the first version by the foreign emissaries to China, and the following versions at home and overseas, as well as modern and contemporary works by Chinese translators. The translation of The Analects became more and more diversified, and the research on The Analects was more and more in-depth. However, the translation of The Analects of Confucius began with ideological constraints that is ...

Linguistics