The present article attempts to make a contrastive study of the semantic prosody of English and Chinese logical resultative formulae in terms of their collocation，colligation，semantic preferences，and evaluative polarity．The article points out that：first，English and Chinese logical resultative formulae are frequently employed to connect two linguistic elements and to express certain kinds of connective meaning；yet，in communication，owing to their frequent co-occurrence with the words having the same or similar meaning potential，they tend to convey certain types of attitudinal meaning；second，from both intra- and inter- lingual perspectives，it is found that logical resultative formulae with the same or similar denotative meaning differ in their semantic prosody；third，the differences between the semantic prosody of English and Chinese logical resultative formulae are related not only with two different language systems and conceptual systems of English and Chinese，but also with the national personality，ways of thinking and communication patterns，etc．

James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is not only the forerunner of post-modern literature，but also demonstrates the medieval aesthetics which makes it possible to overstep the limit of modernism．Among those texts inthe Middle Ages，Book of Kells is the key to understand the medieval aesthetics in Finnegans Wake．The religious theme in Book of Kells leads Joyce to reconsider the Original Sin and the destiny of mankind from the religious perspective；the richness，complication，variation of the paintings in Book of Kells inspires the rich style and the poetics of sublime in Finnegans Wake. This Paper would illuminate the medieval aesthetics implied in Finnegans Wake which is different from the modern one by analyzing the relationship between Finnegans Wake and Book of Kells.

Delexicalized verb constructions（DVC）in English, as provisional verbal combinations, are a marked language phenomenon. By employing the theory of pragmatics and functional grammar，this paper aims to explore the underlying rules with regard to DVC in the English language．To be more exact, the author discusses the language phenomenon from three perspectives：semantics，pragmatics and text. This paper shows that DVC may sometimes be synonymous with simple verb constructions or cognate object constructions，but cannot be superseded by such constructions．Whichever construction is appropriate is strictly constrained by linguistic rules．Semantically，the use of DVC is constrained by individual lexical semantic differences，lexical semantic gap and constructional semantic differences. Pragmatically，it is constrained by pragmatically rhetorical rules．Textually，the use of DVC is spurred by the implicit coherence requirement. In addition，style may also play a role concerned with the use of DVC in some cases．Finally, the findings in this paper may present some suggestions for teaching English, and to some extent are practical for studying grammar.

The causal structure is an expressive form of causal relationship in language. In the language expression layer, no matter how complex the causal structure is, there are only two phenomena through semantic predication coupling constituting the basic expression pattern of language: P→Q. раз and потому что are two typical marker words in Russian causal structure. Through an empirical survey of“раз”and“потому что”sentences in language database, we find that they have opposite tendencies in the choice of subjective and objective cognitive domain, and then we use the theory of subjective dimension of Nuyts to probe into the differences of subjectivity types between them.

The ways to express possibility are of great varieties and complicated in modern Japanese．According to the meanings of the expressions of possibility，they are generally classified into“ability possibility”and“state possibility”，but in reality a lot of expressions associated with possibility cannot be classified in the above two categories．On the basis of early studies and the traditional classification， this paper puts forward a new classification model of expressions of possibility，analyses them in detail with the help of many examples，and systemizes the internal mechanism．

This paper attempts to make a comparison between English versions of Chinese poems of political allegory from the Sevenspace Model based on Conceptual Blending Theory．It tries to find out whether the Seven-space Model can be applied to the translation study of Chinese poems of political allegory and other classical poems, along with the exploration of its implications to the translation practice．

Early 20th century witnessed the social and cultural transformation of China．Embracing and reflecting modernity at the same time，Lu Xun developed the humanistic ideal as well as the complex feeling of loneliness and perplexity which constitute Lu Xun’s unique personal discourses presented in translations of A Youth’s Dream and Preface to Also Sprach Zarathustra．Exploring the translation selection and translation strategies，this paper discloses the efforts the translator made for the building of national identity．As it turned out，endeavors were made in the two translations to attain the aim by combining the translation selection and strategies together，and only Preface to Also Sprach Zarathustra succeeded in presenting a clear vision of national identity building，which affected the Lu Xun’s overall translations in the May Fourth period．

Because metaphor enables people to share the experience or understand things in a faraway place, it is often adopted as the conspirator of colonialism. With the help of its function as a bridge, colonizers could transfer their languages and cultures to the colonized and assimilate the original ones. Moreover its variability of metaphor makes it undergo different interpretations after being received by the colonized. The poem of Daffodils by William Wordsworth as a metaphor is intended to ‘daffodilize’ or assimilate the Caribbean colonies. Based on the various interpretations of Daffodils in Caribbean English Literature, this paper aims to explore the reason why it had been deconstructed and reinterpreted. ‘The daffodil gap’ shows differences between the colonizer’s colonial intention and the decolonization of the colonized. Therefore, this analysis intrigues the profound thinking on ways of colonialism in the colonized culture.

Referring to the theories of intertextuality，this paper has probes into Chinese elements in American new poetry movement between 1919 and 1949. Basically, American poetry of this period parodied not only Chinese poetic themes and forms but also Chinese poetic language and ways of thinking and writing；Chinese art served as a medium for American poets to get inspirations；through translating and introducing Chinese classical poets and their works as well as Chinese poetic“discourses”and theories，American poets acquired Chinese poetic influences ；the overseas Chinese scholars and students in America“expanded their horizon of the world”and exerted their effects unconsciously upon American new poetry construction with the help of their unique thought and works；and the valuable Chinese poetic translations published in European countries laid the foundation for the prosperous development of American new poetry in the future. Thus the significance of the study is that it clarifies intertextuality as a particular perspective of viewing Chinese and American poetic relationships between 1919 and 1949，proving that Chinese and American poetic texts are closely interweaved and they are basically dialogical and communicative.

This paper tries to address how Blood Meridian presents the entanglement between violence and ethics to reveal what the world really is, reaching out for the universal meaning hidden behind the violence in the “authentic American apocalyptic novel”. From the perspectives of violence and ethics, it points out that Blood Meridian reveals the image of the universe and a universal fable: the entanglements of biological evolution and human ethics go throughout the entire human community. Compared with the vast universe of “eternal” violence, human ethics are too delicate, brief, and vulnerable，and therefore, the novel is full of postmodern and anti-historical meanings. This paper investigates the important role that McCarthy plays in deconstructing and subverting the rationalism after the Age of Enlightenment, shedding some light on the study of postmodern American literature from the angle of evolution and ethics.

Test of English Proficiency Oral (TEP) is the core of the comprehensive reform project of College English implemented in the municipal universities proposed by Beijing Municipal Education Commission. The project aims to explore the function of College English in cultivating the internationalized students and in meeting the needs of internationalized human resources of Beijing as a cosmopolitan city. With College English Curriculum Requirements and Common European Framework of Reference for Language as its theoretical guidance, focusing on the existing deficiency in current College English teaching and inadequate assessment strategies, the mode of TEP has been developed. Compared with international and domestic similar oral tests, TEP is innovative in its content, form and scoring system. It emphasizes the ability of oral communicative interaction, flexibility and authenticity. The scoring system embodies the objectivity of assessment results and the ability description shows testees’ merits and demerits in communication. TEP is a kind of diagnostic assessment in order to enhance college English teaching. Through practice and continuous improvement, TEP can provide a guiding framework for college English teaching reform in Beijing municipal universities.